GST project demonstrates next generation telematics at final event

Focused on creating a Global System for Telematics (GST) enabling on-line safety services, the EU-supported GST Integrated Project held its final workshop in La Hulpe, Belgium, 27-28 February 2007 to present and showcase its results. The successful workshop, which was the closing event of the project, was designed to disseminate ideas on how to further develop telematics according to the GST standards.
 
The two-day event, attended by more than 160 experts representing all major stakeholders in Europe, focused on how GST’s solutions can greatly facilitate the development, remote installation and updating of innovative services on a broad range of telematics platforms. It featured an extensive set of presentations and demonstrations of the GST achievements.  The figure below shows an overview of the functionality covered by the project.
 
Combined, the GST results make it possible for service providers, control centre providers and manufacturers of client systems – as well as other stakeholders involved in the telematics ecosystem – to develop, provide and manage services in service centres, control centres and on-client systems in an interoperable way. This has been demonstrated by the test activities within the seven GST sub-projects and seven test sites, as well as by the project’s service submission contest, in which external companies successfully used the GST toolchain to develop and provide services running on GST-compliant infrastructure.

The first day of the workshop consisted of brief presentations by the seven subprojects and five test sites describing the GST concepts, architecture and validation results. On the second day, all attendees had the opportunity to test the GST platform in a number of experimental vehicles and computer demonstrations. The project showcased vehicle-to-vehicle communication, emergency call, service deployment, remote service management, safety channel messages, remote payment capability, service certification and many other aspects of GST. A significant number of attendees, including high-level EC representatives such as Dr Rosalie Zobel, Director of the EC Directorate-General Information Society and Media, expressed a strong interest in seeing GST results appear on the market.

During the event, GST was also formally reviewed by the European Commission, and earned a very positive final review.

The GST project will officially end on 31 March 2007, but the results of GST will be followed up in European projects such as CVIS, SafeSpot and Sevecom. Next steps for 3rd-generation telematics includes the creation of a telematics forum to maintain the momentum behind the further development, promotion and deployment of GST results to the market.

For more detailed information about GST, please contact the GST team at gst_ipm@gstproject.org.