- published: 27 Feb 2012
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Telematics typically is any integrated use of telecommunications and informatics, also known as ICT (Information and Communications Technology). Hence the application of telematics is with any of the following:
In contrast telemetry is the transmission of measurements from the location of origin to the location of computing and consumption, especially without effecting control on the remote objects. Telemetry is typically applied in testing of flight objects but has multiple other uses.
Although the majority of devices that integrate telecommunications and information technology are not vehicles but rather mobile phones and the like, their use is not included in telematics. Telematics2.0 is an extension of traditional telematics utilising Smartphone technology within a telematics style solution, (see Smartphone_auto_insurance_policies for auto insurance methodologies).
The etymology of telematics is from the Greek "tele" ('far away', especially in relation to the process of producing or recording) and ~Matos (a derivative of the Greek machinari, or contrivance, usually taken in this context to mean 'of its own accord'). As combined, the term "telematics" describes the process of long-distance transmission of computer-based information. It was first introduced in French by Simon Nora and Alain Minc in L'informatisation de la Société (La Documentation Française, 1978)