Software provides proactive route planning capabilities.
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Drill Down Server® (DDS) v4.0 platform enables proactive notification of relevant, real-time data to users on routes they use everyday, while Traffic Manager v4.0 geospatial engine extension lets users integrate traffic feeds with dynamic detour routing. Personalized route capability offers ability to define favorite routes and then receive relevant information pertaining to them, such as traffic, gas prices, or custom offers from merchants.
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Telcontar Gets Personal With Next Generation Location Platform
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 7 -- Telcontar, a leading supplier of software and related services for the Location-Based Services (LBS) industry, today announced the availability of Drill Down Server (R) (DDS) 4.0 platform and Traffic Manager 4.0, the latest version of its geospatial engine that powers leading Internet portal mapping services such as Google Local, Yahoo! Maps and Ask Jeeves. The new DDS 4.0 platform represents a breakthrough in real-time location services by enabling proactive notification of relevant, real time data to users for routes that they use everyday. The Traffic Manager 4.0 extension allows users to integrate the most accurate traffic feeds available with dynamic detour routing from DDS 4.0 to take drivers to their destination as fast as possible.
DDS 4.0 enables personalized routes, giving users the ability to define favorite routes and then receive proactive notification of relevant information along those routes such as real time traffic, gas prices or custom offers from merchants. In the same way that one can have a personal watch list of stock prices or news, now it is possible to check favorite routes to see if traffic is bad getting out of town on a Friday, or to learn who has the lowest gas price on the commute home.
"Integrating real time data such as traffic is the key to developing location-based applications that are used every day," said J. Kim Fennell, president and CEO of Telcontar. "All of us have routes that we drive daily. Telcontar's new platform gives consumers information about those routes that is timely, relevant and actionable. Rather than being used only when going to a new place, the dynamic nature of this information increases the frequency in which these applications are used."
By combining DDS 4.0 with a standard Internet notification system, drivers can be notified to leave 20 minutes earlier, what exits to take, if streets should be used instead of freeways, as well as identify where the nearest ATMs and rest stops are located. Until now, this has not been practical due to the complexity of correlating time-sensitive data across potentially millions of personalized routes. DDS 4.0 offers a unique method of quickly and efficiently searching across stored routes to provide the first location platform that can scale to the volumes needed for the Internet.
Traffic Manager 4.0 further enhances the personalized routes by integrating traffic data from Tele Atlas, Inrix and NAVTEQ with advanced detour routing to get drivers to their destinations as quickly as possible. DDS 4.0 with the Traffic Manager 4.0 extension uses real-time traffic data in the routing calculations and is the first routing platform to explore detours around these incidents on surface streets as part of an optimized solution. The result is that drivers now can not only know what traffic to expect, but can know what to do about it, with routes that minimize their time on the road.
"We are thrilled to partner with Telcontar to address the exponential market demand we are experiencing for delivering traffic information on maps and routing," said Inrix President and CEO, Bryan Mistele. "The scalability of Telcontar's platform combined with the reliability and accuracy of our real-time traffic information provides a complete solution that transforms the commuting experience by enabling individuals and businesses to avoid wasting valuable time on congested roadways."
The DDS 4.0 platform delivers unparalleled scalability and can instantaneously update thousands of routes affected by issues such as special events, changes in traffic patterns as well as handle millions of users accessing a site simultaneously. The Drill Down Server technology lies at the heart of the most popular Internet mapping applications to deliver an aggregate of more than a billion maps and routes each month. Telematics companies and wireless application developers can also build mobile applications that access the DDS platform to provide off-board navigation solutions.
DDS (R) 4.0 and Traffic Manager 4.0 are generally available today. The integration with traffic feeds will be available Q1 2006.
About Telcontar
Telcontar provides the underlying location technology that powers cutting-edge location-based services provided by the world's best-known Internet and wireless applications companies, including Ask Jeeves, Google Local, Yahoo!, Appello, HandMark, Motorola Viamoto, Networks In Motion and TeleNav, that in aggregate generate well over a Billion maps/routes a month. With Telcontar's powerful geospatial software platform, customers can develop a wide array of customized applications drawing from a rich supply of digital maps, information on local businesses, traffic and other real-time data. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Telcontar can be reached via www.telcontar.com.
CONTACT: Erin Lumley of MSR Communications, +1-415-447-6115, or erin@msrcommunications.com, for Telcontar
