Convergence Increasingly Being Adopted by Fleet Management and Commercial Telematics Vendors

Author: Dominique Bonte, Vice President and Group Director, Telematics and M2M

Published: 24 Feb 2011

The convergence trend we’ve seen in consumer markets for many years, is now finally making inroads into industrials segments such as commercial telematics. Vendors such as Digicore, Mix Telematics, Qualcomm, Intermec, and Transics are offering software applications on smartphones and tablets to track assets remotely, but also as a replacement for fixed mount in-cab on-board computers and black box systems. Clearly the multi-device and the ubiquitous mobile computing trend first seen in the consumer environment is now spreading to industrial markets.

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