Post-crash systems and e-call services in cars are going from innovation to standardisation. Car manufacturers are offering complete in-built solutions to enhance safety and add new functionality such as “infotainment”, navigation and remote diagnostics to add further value to the “online” car. In parallel, after-market solutions for use within the car are areas which are growing rapidly. This also means that new industries are entering the space of the car. Telenor Connexion is for example working closely with the insurance sector in deploying pay-as-the-drive solutions and together with different consumer electronics manufacturers (for example Personal Navigation Devices) we are developing solutions for usage within the car environment.

How can Telenor Connexion help?

The Automotive sector has always been one of our focus markets; hence we have some 10 years of experience of integrating wireless connectivity solutions for the car industry. We have developed products and services specially designed to fit the production process and business logics of the industry. One example of is our surface mounted SIM – Telenor Connexion eSIM designed especially for the specific environments within integrated car solutions. Our tailored M2M SIM concept facilitates the usage of only one standardised solution for connectivity no matter where the car is produced, sold or used. Our automated provisioning system enables SIM-cards and connectivity being in-built in in the car production line, but with no charges until the car is actually sold and the telematics system is used.

Volvo Cars

”We have cooperated with Telenor for many years to develop and implement our e-call service, OnCall, in different countries. Reliability of the technical solution, international reach and the right business model set-up for this unique service were some of the important factors in choosing our communication partner for the OnCall service. We are continuing to develop OnCall and other telematics solutions in close cooperation with Telenor to enhance our telematics offering.”

Joost van den Bosch, MSS Lifecycle Extended Offer Manager, Volvo Cars

• Base telematics (eCall, bCall, stolen vehicle tracking)
• Convenience services (concierge, vehicle homepage etc.)
• Internal services (remote diagnostics, remote S/W download)
• Infotainment (streaming radio, map updates, web browsing etc).

Within the commercial vehicle industry, connectivity can provide the possibility for a range of value adding services for manufacturers of truck as well as the end-user of the truck. Truck OEM:s have several drivers to add communication services in the truck:

• Potential new revenue sources – by providing services such as Fleet Management
• Quality – by monitoring diagnostics functions
• Cost reduction – by monitoring diagnostics function, preventive maintenance
• New ways of selling trucks – by leasing contracts, service contracts etc.

According to Berg Insight (2009), Fleet Management solutions alone are expected to grow by an annual compound rate of over 20 percent, from 1.1 million units (Europe) in 2009 to 3.3 million units in 2013. In addition, an EU-based ITS action plan is pinpointing a number of targets to enable different solutions within the transportation sector. The key objectives is to provide interoperable (within EU and between different transportation systems) solutions to reduce congestion, traffic fatalities and CO2 emission by use of intelligent transport systems. Wireless connectivity plays an important role in achieving this and is expected to increase in both line-fit solutions as well as after-market solutions.

Telenor Connexion is the leading provider of connectivity solutions for the automotive industry working closely with customers such as Daimler, Scania and Volvo Cars securing the operations of already deployed telematics solutions as well as developing the future solutions for the connected car or truck.