OSGi based integrated service platform for automotive telematics

With the enormous market potentials of telematics industry and for further gains in safety and convenience, automotive telematics has become a hot R&D area in mobile computing and ITS. Quite a number of telematics services have been proposed by automakers and third-party service providers. This paper describes an OSGi based in-vehicle telematics service platform, by which telematics services can be accessed by end users. Both the hardware and software platforms are analyzed from the application and implementation points of view. Finally, application examples are introduced and some concluding remarks are drawn for this paper.