Connected Car Essentials

Scalable, secure, and efficient connectivity available globally

Connected Car Essentials is a suite of WirelessCar products and services that delivers a secure and reliable connected vehicle end-to-end experience to your customers. Vehicle makers can take advantage of cost efficiency, cut time-to-market, and reduce complexity. Connected Car Essentials aims to ensure that all vehicle makers of cars, trucks and motorbikes can utilize connected vehicle services. By doing so, they fulfill customers’ expectations and address increasingly challenging market demands. Among them, the need for convenience, safety, reduced environmental footprints and meeting regulatory demands.

Why Connected Car Essentials?

At WirelessCar, we have compiled a subset of our products and services into Connected Car Essentials. Our goal is to lower the thresholds to building a connected vehicle program. We do this by providing standardized building blocks that allow vehicle makers to launch a set of digital services; services for interacting with their customers and strengthening brand loyalty.

Connected Car Essentials is provided through a cloud-based backend solution that can expand over time, with additional products and services when required. This opens the potential for all vehicle makers, even for low volume markets, to offer the connectivity services that drivers and owners have come to expect when they purchase or lease a new vehicle.

How can car makers become successful creators and providers of digital services for connected cars

Key features and benefits

These are the products included in Connected Car Essentials:

Vehicle Integration
By implementing our reliable and secure communication protocol between the connected vehicle and the backend cloud, you ensure a smooth and seamless customer experience.

Device Provisioning / SIM Management
Lifecycle management support of eSIM, software and services, and support to manage feature or service updates.

Master Data Management
Information about vehicles, devices, users and owners can be structured and managed in a comprehensive way, while maintaining data privacy at all times.

Vehicle Diagnostics
Transports technical vehicle data, including Diagnostic Trouble Codes (DTCs) and freeze-frame data.

In addition, WirelessCar offers the following products that complement Connected Car Essentials:

Vehicle Status
A digital twin is set up, with up-to-date status information about the vehicle's dynamic data, such as position, fuel level, or battery charge.

Remote Services
APIs and communication patterns that enable quick development of user interfaces that allow drivers to remotely control features in their vehicle.

To further shorten time to market, WirelessCar offers a standardized, flexible and compact message protocol used to communicate between an in-vehicle connectivity device and our cloud-based products.

Expand and evolve your business

Connected Car Essentials creates a strong platform for vehicle makers to build their connected vehicle offerings from. As these offerings mature and expand, they can include other WirelessCar products as well: Call Center Services, Position & Journey, Subscription Management, for example.

We continually enhance our products based on new knowledge and our 25+ years of experience in the automotive industry. Customer insights and input from handling millions of cars worldwide (24-7, 365 days a year) certainly contribute to this work. They provide API resources for easy development and service utilization, so that you can continue to make the most out of these services.

How to build better digital services for your connected cars and your customers
CCE Diagram

Key characteristics

Connected Car Essentials is based on our long and varied experiences of cultivating OEM telematics solutions from the ground up. The standardized products are designed and proven to work seamlessly with one another while well-architected service components allow possibilities for OEM-specific configurations where needed. Our OEM-facing interfaces enable you and your partners to build the user experience you want to offer your customers. Meanwhile, your key business systems – product information systems, customer relations management and tools for customer or technical support – can benefit from the value adding data from our products. Our professional advisory services get you off to a good start tackling a global implementation with all the local variations.

Schematic data flow in Connected Car Essentials

Connected car essentials architectural diagram

Connected Car Essentials provides:

Global scalability and reach
Currently, our services support most markets in the world including North America, the European Union, and China.

Designed for scale
As the number of connected vehicles increases, so does the amount of data they provide. Our products are designed to support large amounts of data, using Amazon Web Services to secure appropriate scalability.

Privacy
Data about how, when, and where a vehicle is driven can be sensitive. All data is tagged according to data privacy regulations and is securely encrypted and stored.

Security & Compliance
WirelessCar complies with GDPR and NIST regulations and has been certified according to ISO:27001

Developer friendly products
Our products provide standardized APIs and developer documentation to reduce lead time and increase quality.

Connected Car Essentials in a nutshell

Connected Car Essentials offers OEMs a cost-effective, entry-level solution for vehicle connectivity. Traditionally available only to premium or high-volume brands, connectivity has been limited by its complexity and development costs. WirelessCar aims to lower these barriers, making connectivity accessible to all vehicle manufacturers.

Connected Car Essentials allows vehicle makers to launch their own competitive set of digital services, which in turn enables greater customer interaction and stronger brand loyalty.

Connected Car Essentials lowers this threshold by providing a flexible, cloud-based backend product that can expand over time. It is scalable in terms of additional services, the growing number of vehicles, and geographic coverage.

Connected Car Essentials is a secure and reliable product suite, based on proven, compliant cloud-based products. Fast deployment means shortened time-to-market.

Pavan Vishnubhatla
Product Manager