Java for telematics

Motorola engineers believe the Java framework will allow the secure deployment of infotainment services to the automobile.

Motorola engineers see the need for a standard architecture that allows safety, information, and entertainment services to be delivered to the automobile. Most current systems are limited to simple emergency services that require human-operator intervention. Elaborate ones for applications such as navigation are autonomous and do not lend themselves to delivering timely information such as traffic updates and road detours.

The proposed Motorola architecture is a distributed Java telematics platform with components that would be available as Java application programming interface (API) classes and interfaces that applications would be built upon. The Java language is preferred since it offers portability across hardware platforms and different operating systems. After an infotainment application or service is developed on the Java platform, it can be made available seamlessly on a variety of client hardware with the availability of a standard Java virtual machine (VM) and APIs as the only constraint. The ability to upgrade hardware without changing code results in huge cost savings.