Wireless Cars by 2012?

Joshua Gliddon, Computerworld Australia

May 30, 2009 4:01 pm

http://www.pcworld.com:80/article/165804/wireless_cars_by_2012.html?tk=nl_dnx_h_crawl

As environmental concerns come to the fore, car makers will increasingly turn away from performance and towards in-car electronics and connectivity as a way of differentiating their vehicles, said Gartner analyst Thilo Koslowski.(See more at the article link above…)

* But you don’t have to wait that long. Alan Spicer Communications (Telecom) has been providing WiFi and Cellular 2G and 3G wireless systems for 5 years in the marine market as well as working with traditional land based businesses.

Alan Spicer knows how to build networks on a mobile platform and knows how to connect and integrate wireless systems. The same 3G cellular gear and even the WiFi Hotspot Sharing gear that we deploy on yachts - can also be deployed in cars. The Ericsson 3G HSPA voice and Internet “mobile broadband router” gear can be powered just as easily on 110vAC (adaptor included) or 10 - 28 volts D.C. That includes the typical 12vDC of car and other automobile electrical systems.

Mobile automotive 3G Antenna systems are already available. So this makes it easy to kit up a system with an automobile rooftop antenna, flexible coax cabling, and install Ericsson W25 or Ericsson W35 into a car, truck or other vehicle.

This would allow you to access Internet content … if other car electronics, for example, can take Internet Radio - then Ericsson can provide that connection for your vehicle. The built-in WiFi Access Point in the Ericsson gear can provide you and your passengers wireless access to your vehicles Ericsson Internet System. The 4 port broadband router also allows devices that need a wired (CAT5/CAT6, Fast Ethernet) connection to be connected with the system as well. The Ericsson systems can also share USB hard drives and USB memory sticks with everyone aboard your vehicle. Let’s say that you want everyone to be able to view some pictures, or an important presentation… just place them on a USB memory stick or USB external hard drive - and everyone can access it.

You could also allow sharing of music and perhaps movie clips to your guests / passengers.

* These systems could also be used for work and commercial purposes. Contractor vehicles such as SUV and Pickup truck - can provide voice and Internet to the vehicle owner and to others that he/she chooses to give the security code for secure access to Internet and the vehicles onboard network. Mobile platforms or moving construction platforms can use this … as the Ericsson gear can move right along with the construction site (or vehicle) movement.) Temporary or Emergency sites and such can also quickly set up Fast Internet and Office-like Telephone Service anywhere that cellular 3G is available.

* So don’t wait till 2012 to put Wireless 3G Internet and Voice in your vehicle. You can have it now. (Installation not included. Most local auto alarm, two way radio, or cellular dealers should be able to install for you - if you don’t want to do it yourself.)

(Special Note: If needed - inverter boxes that convert 12vDC to 110vAC have been available for quite some time to consumers to provide those often needed AC Electrical Outlets to charge laptop batteries and run laptops, and other gear such as external hard drives that need 110vAC electrical power.)

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Alan Spicer Communications (Telecom) / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

+1 954 683 3426

http://www.mobilebroadbandrouter.biz/

http://www.marinetelecom.net/Ericsson_W35

http://www.marinetelecom.net/Ericsson_W25

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