Position & Journey: Real-Time Vehicle Location Data and Journey Insights

Position & Journey provides OEMs with an easy to integrate solution for location ingestion, storage, and exposure. Our product will be your basis for implementing connected car services such as Car Finder, Journey Log, Cost Reporting and Geofence services. Journeys can also be enriched with external data for more sophisticated managed services like Driver Behaviours. Vehicle-generated location data is streamed to the product’s Vehicle API. For customers using Android Automotive OS, our journey log application can stream the data. It is then transformed into a normalized format and stored as a single position point, representing the last known location, or as a part of an ongoing journey.

In addition, data security measures are applied to ensure that all privacy aspects are handled appropriately and local legislations – for instance GDPR – are adhered to. On the other side of the product lies a Service API that allows you to use the position and trip data, enrich the data, and subscribe to changes in the data so that you can build your services.

Position & Journey is delivered as a managed service, powered by AWS IoT Technologies, ensuring scalability, security, and flexibility for OEMs looking to enhance their connected vehicle offerings.

Benefits

Data Management

• Support ingestion and storage of data for millions of cars through efficient data management and cloud scaling capabilities.
• Multi-tenant capable: secure access to only specific groups of vehicles and their location data. It can also be used in markets around the world using the global infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• All location data registered by our product is tagged according to applicable data and privacy legislation, and securely encrypted and stored.

Data Processing

• Avoid the interruption of data streams when cars move in and out of tunnels, garages, or onto ferries. Position & Journey identifies errors and adjusts itself to create complete trips.
• Anomalies, usually caused by, for instance, temporarily malfunctioning telematics units (TCUs), loss of connectivity, or invalid data can be detected and reported by error management and logging.

Capabilities

• Position & Journey supports relating vehicles to fleets and provides capabilities to query data for both individual cars and groups of cars.
• Set up a geofence that triggers an alert when the car is entering or leaving a geographical area.
• Offer customer interfaces that enable drivers to classify (business vs personal), merge, split, and delete trips as they see fit.

Use Cases

• Car Finder—Enable users of a mobile app to view the position of their vehicle and navigate to the car. Receive notifications if the position changes.
• Journey Log—Create a log that enables users to easily label their business trips and obtain accurate information for time and distance traveled.
• Driver Behavior—Enable visibility of driver behavior by incorporating data that provides insights into the driving characteristics of ongoing trips throughout the journey.
• Journey Enrichment—Create visibility into how fees, such as congestion charges or road tolls, relate to trips. In combination with trip labelling – personal or business – ease a driver’s expense reporting for business-related trips.
• Cost Reporting—Create visibility into how fees, such as congestion charges or road tolls, relate to trips. In combination with trip labelling – personal or business – ease a driver’s expense reporting for business-related trips.
• Geofence Services—Enforce green driving zones by alerting users of driving restrictions, changing the drive mode, or tagging parts of journeys as green zone areas. Create parental controls and notifications related to where the car is driven when used by a minor.