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What Do Today's Tech Savvy Consumers and Mobile Professionals Want?
In-Car
Mobile Computers
/ Mobile TV / Mobile Entertainment
Westar
Corporation Media Technologies / Mobile
Entertainment
After a thorough review of automobile manufactures,
we found several that include navigation, or entertainment, or communication;
some even offered two or three functions. What we did not find was any
automobile manufacture that was currently offering a system including all
the elements today's tech savvy consumers want in one easy to use device.
Enter Westar Corporation's All-In-One Mobile PC Interface
with Navigation, Communication, Entertainment
and Mobile Office with Westar Broadband
Internet, In-Car Mobile TV. Video on Demand and
Mobile Productivity.
The Westar Interface
includes a blend
of optional elements, software and hardware to make any automobile ready for
today's technology prone customers. By combining an easy to use "All-In-One,
command interface", providing easy "one touch / one phrase" access to
navigation / communication / entertainment / mobile office and telematic
functions; on a centrally located screen available as a factory installed or
aftermarket add-on for any vehicle.
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Navigation |
mapping & directions, people, place & thing finder
determination of position and direction
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Navigation
is the process of planning, recording, and controlling the
movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.
The word navigate is derived from the Latin roots
navis
meaning "ship" and agere meaning "to move" or "to
direct." Different navigational techniques have evolved over
the ages in different cultures, but all involve locating
one's position compared to known locations or patterns. It
is also used in computer science as a term related to the
Internet. |
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GPS |
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The
Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only
fully functional
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Utilizing a
constellation
of at least 24
Medium Earth Orbit
satellites
that transmit precise
microwave
signals, the system enables a GPS
receiver
to determine its
location, speed, direction, and time. Other similar
systems are the Russian
GLONASS
(incomplete as of 2007), the upcoming European
Galileo positioning system, the proposed
COMPASS navigation system of China, and
IRNSS
of India.
Developed by the
United States Department of Defense, GPS is officially
named NAVSTAR GPS (Contrary to popular belief,
NAVSTAR is not an
acronym, but simply a name given by John Walsh, a key
decision maker when it came to the budget for the GPS
program). The satellite constellation is managed by the
United States Air Force
50th Space Wing. The cost of maintaining the system is
approximately US$750 million per year, including the
replacement of aging satellites, and research and
development.
Following the shootdown of
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983, President
Ronald Reagan issued a directive making the system
available for free for civilian use as a
common good. Since then, GPS has become a widely used
aid to navigation worldwide, and a useful tool for
map-making,
land surveying, commerce, and scientific uses. GPS also
provides a precise
time reference used in many applications including
scientific study of
earthquakes, and
synchronization
of telecommunications networks. |
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Communication
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connect sync to cellular; multiple voice, data, network and
internet connectivity |
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Communication
is a process that allows organisms to exchange information
by several methods. Exchange requires
feedback. The word communication is also used in
the context where little or no feedback is expected such as
broadcasting, or where the feedback may be delayed as
the sender or receiver use different methods, technologies,
timing and means for feedback.
Communication is the articulation of sending a message,
whether it be verbal or nonverbal, so long as a being
transmits a thought provoking idea, gesture, action, etc.
Communication can be defined as the process of meaningful
interaction among human beings. It is the act of passing
information and the process by which meanings are exchanged
so as to produce understanding.
Communication is the process by which any message is given
or received through talking, writing, or making gestures. |
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Entertainment
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Live and Video on Demand TV, Movie, Education, and Business
multimedia |
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Entertainment
is an activity designed to give pleasure or
relaxation
to an audience (although in the case of a
computer game the "audience" may be only one person).
The audience may participate in the entertainment passively
as in watching
opera, or actively as in computer games.[1]
The playing of
sports
and reading of
literature
are usually included in entertainment, but these are often
called
recreation, because they involve some active
participation beyond mere leisure.
The industry that provides entertainment is called the
entertainment industry. |
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Mobile Office |
Link,
Sync, and
connect to your office documents, contacts, and content |
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Mobile office
is also used for the workspace of
salespeople
or similar, working out of their company office. They are
usually equipped with a
portable computer and connect to the company servers and
Intranet
via
mobile phones,
WiFi
or via fixed connections in
cybercafes,
hotels
and
airports. They like to use
Personal Information Managers |
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Infotainment
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(a
portmanteau
of information and entertainment) refers to a general type
of
media
broadcast
program
which provides a combination of current events
news
and "feature news", or "features stories". |
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Infotainment also refers to the segments of programming in
television news programs which overall consist of both "hard
news" segments and interviews, along with celebrity
interviews and human drama stories. Critics have claimed the
combination of the two aspects is a
conflict of interest by corporate news outlets—focusing
on marketing, not
journalism. The term "infotainment" thus may be a
pejorative
among those who hold professional journalistic values in
esteem. Infotainment should not be confused with
documentaries,
educational television, or
hard news programming. These go more in depth of the
subjects they cover and can even provide classroom level
instruction in areas such as mathematics, science, biology,
or writing, etc. |
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Telematics
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The integrated use of
telecommunications and
informatics, also known as ICT (Information
and Communications Technology). More specifically it is
the science of sending, receiving and storing information
via telecommunication devices.
More commonly, telematics have been applied specifically
to the use of
Global Positioning System technology integrated with
computers and mobile communications technology in
automotive navigation systems.
Most narrowly, the term has evolved to refer to the use
of such systems within
road vehicles, in which case the term vehicle
telematics may be used.
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Vehicle telematics
systems may be used for a number of purposes, including collecting road tolls, managing road usage (intelligent transportation systems), pricing auto insurance, tracking fleet vehicle locations (fleet telematics), cold store logistics, recovering stolen vehicles, providing automatic collision notification, location-driven driver information services — and more particularly, dedicated short range communications DSRC in-vehicle early warning (car accident prevention) notification
alerts.
Vehicle telematics systems are also increasingly being used to provide remote diagnostics; a vehicle's built-in system will identify a mechanical or electronic problem, and the telematics package can automatically make this information known to the vehicle manufacturer service organization. The telematics monitored system is also capable of notifying any problems to the owner of the vehicle via e-mail. Other forthcoming applications include on-demand navigation, audio and audio-visual entertainment content.
While there are many potential applications for
vehicle telematics, the main advantage for transportation safety advocates is that it will help reduce and ideally eliminate road injuries and road traffic related deaths worldwide
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Infotainment
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(a
portmanteau
of information and entertainment) refers to a general type
of
media
broadcast
program
which provides a combination of current events
news
and "feature news", or "features stories". |
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Infotainment also refers to the segments of programming in
television news programs which overall consist of both "hard
news" segments and interviews, along with celebrity
interviews and human drama stories. Critics have claimed the
combination of the two aspects is a
conflict of interest by corporate news outlets—focusing
on marketing, not
journalism. The term "infotainment" thus may be a
pejorative
among those who hold professional journalistic values in
esteem. Infotainment should not be confused with
documentaries,
educational television, or
hard news programming. These go more in depth of the
subjects they cover and can even provide classroom level
instruction in areas such as mathematics, science, biology,
or writing, etc. |
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