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ACUNIA Teams Up With TeleAtlas
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DETROIT and LEUVEN, GHENT, May 15 - ACUNIA, the leading provider of next-generation telematics technology, and Tele Atlas, the digital
mapping world leader, today announced a partnership agreement to demonstrate the use of geodata in the development of location-based telematics services.
ACUNIA is well-known for its Open Telematics Framework, the first fully functional, end-to-end, Java-based open software design for the entire telematics pipeline.
The single-platform, protocol-neutral, lightweight architecture system has won industry acclaim because it can be quickly and easily upgraded on-the-fly to add
services and accommodate new technologies.
Using the Open Telematics Framework technology of ACUNIA, both companies will set up a demonstration project in which geodata from Tele Atlas will be shown in
a next-generation environment, using a MAGIC-compliant, distributed geo Java model.
In the project, ACUNIA will develop and demonstrate basic navigation and Floating Car Data services.
Geo data will be downloaded in the vehicle, while at the same time, vehicle-data will be used to dynamically upload and modify Tele Atlas data on the application
side.
ACUNIA will setup the demonstration architecture at its headquarters in Belgium, including application centers, a Communication & Control Center and test vehicles.
"This new partnership with a world leader like Tele Atlas clearly adds to the further development of ACUNIA's leadership position as a supplier of next- generation
telematics technology. Using the results of this demonstration project, Tele Atlas will have an immediate advantage in becoming the preferred supplier of geo data to
car makers and telematics operators," said Marc Maes, co-founder and co-CEO of ACUNIA.
Alain De Taeye, founder and CEO of Tele Atlas, adds, "The partnership is an excellent win-win arrangement. It introduces Tele Atlas to automotive telematics
developers as the preferred source of geodata and provides ACUNIA with access to our database, which has the largest, most detailed and most up- to-date digital
map in the world."
Founded in 1996 (as SmartMove), ACUNIA ( www.acunia.com ) is a leading provider of next-generation telematics technology. Headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and
with an office in Frankfurt, Germany, the company employs about 120 people worldwide. The company's U.S. subsidiary, ACUNIA Inc., has offices in Cambridge,
Mass. and Detroit, Mich.
ACUNIA was recently selected by General Motors of Europe to develop its future telematics infrastructure, and also has announced partnerships and/or
demonstration projects with, among others, Infineon Technologies, BMW Group and GenRad.
Tele Atlas is the world leader in digital mapping. It has the largest digital maps of both Europe and North America -- covering around 290 million inhabitants in Europe
and giving complete digital map coverage of the United States, with 265 million inhabitants. The company is actively increasing coverage worldwide and is continually
updating, refining and adding detail to existing map databases. Tele Atlas also has significant and growing activities, with its data being used in business applications
such as location based services, telematics, fleet management, GIS, geo-marketing and other geodata applications.
Based in Ghent, Belgium, Tele Atlas employs 1,400 people in 15 countries, including the U.S. and India, and maintains its data through partnerships and continuous
field surveys. Tele Atlas is a founding member of "MAGIC Services(TM)," and has been listed on the Neuer Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since May 2000.
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