Mission Statement

• Facilitate the use of telematics services and increase the range of operation as well as application.
• The interface has to be royalty-free and interoperable.
• It should support multi-vendor-strategies and has to provide a future-proof communication framework.
• The result should be an open industrial standard with a high potential for the future.

Strategic point of view

• simplifying connectivity between business and applications
• create an environment in which innovative telematics services can be developed delivered cost effectively
• hence to increase the range of economic telematics services available to manufacturers and users
• royalty-free interface license
• interoperable to support multi vendor strategies
• enhance telematics services
• reducing the costs for implementing
• reducing the costs for operating
• future-proof protocol architecture

Functional point of view

• definition of a standardized and generic protocol
• usage of a logical syntax and description
• technology-neutral
• support of the common communication networks GSM-SMS, GSM-GPRS without usage of any special network features
• open communication layer to support future developments in communication technology (while honoring the OSI layer model)
• defined Quality of Service (QoS)
• reduced size of data structures and overhead
• energy efficient (for autonomous use cases)
• increased mechanism for system security