Maptuit’s FleetNav Supports Next Generation In-Cab Devices
New Maptuit FleetNav Extensions Supports Windows-based Standards
Burlington, MA, July 25, 2005
Maptuit Corporation, the leading provider of trucking, tracking and traffic services, today announced its support of next generation devices targeting the trucking industry, such as Qualcomm’s OmniVision and DriverTech's Truck-PC DT 4000 devices.
While working closely with hardware vendors, Maptuit has created its first generation of in-vehicle navigation software for the professional truck driver on both Windows and WinCE enabled devices. Maptuit expects to move into a limited trial by the beginning of Q4 2005, well ahead of the announced delivery timetables of the new generation devices.
"We are thrilled to see there will be a successor to the limited in-cab computing capability available through today's very limited mobile communications devices,” said Jeff Papows, CEO of Maptuit. “Maptuit expected this paradigm shift, invested heavily to be ahead of it, and will ensure our customers benefit as the next generation devices roll out in the second half of next year.”
Maptuit’s development efforts for Windows, Windows CE and other standards-based platforms are now nearing maturity, and are designed to be open to all device specifications. Additionally, Maptuit expects to continue to work with the hardware vendors to ensure optimal performance of Maptuit’s FleetNav™ services on their new devices.
Maptuit's next generation in-truck environment includes:
- In-vehicle real-time turn-by-turn directions
- Textual, graphical and text-to-speech information presentation
- High quality truck specific routing and directions (includes fuel optimization)
- Rapid rerouting
- Truck specific points-of-interest
- Current traffic and weather conditions
- On-device exception alarming (i.e. if a truck is stuck in traffic and is going to miss a delivery window)
“Maptuit has invested years and tens of millions of dollars to produce high quality truck specific routes and directions, " stated Rick Turek, CTO of Maptuit. “People typically do not appreciate the additional complexities associated in generating truck routes when compared to the more simplistic requirements to generate car routes. Maptuit has built the best of breed truck routing used by the top fleets.”
About Maptuit Corporation
Founded in 1999, Maptuit Corporation provides trucking, tracking and traffic services for the transportation and consumer markets. With Maptuit’s advanced web services and patented technology, companies benefit from the ability to easily look up addresses, create maps, perform proximity searches, generate optimized routes and provide directions. For more information please visit www.maptuit.com.
Media contact: Noreen Vincent, Maptuit Corporation, 781.685.4693
(Noreen.Vincent@maptuit.com)
Maptuit is a registered trademark in the United States, and Maptuit, FleetNav, FleetNav Express and other names or logos identifying the services are trademarks or service marks of Maptuit Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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