Think massive—amounts of data.
Think small—semiconductor chips.
These two opposing thoughts are
typical when designing laptops,
cellphones, and other portable
TELEMATICS STARTS
WITH
CHIPS
by Lawrence S. Gould
> Contributing Editor
electronic devices. They also
hold true when designing today's
automotive telematics systems.
These thoughts lead to two
challenges. First, adding features
In automotive telematics, the vehicle is just a peripheral,
a not-so-benign environment for increasingly more-
sophisticated and dedicated microprocessors for
sensing, data collection, communications and analysis.
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