Telematics

Video telematics platform Lightmetrics raises $8.5 mn from Sequoia Capital

Video telematics startup Lightmetrics on Wednesday said it has raised USD 8.5 million (about Rs 69 crore) in a funding round from Sequoia Capital India. The Bengaluru-based platform uses edge AI and analyses video feeds from the camera installed in vehicles to better understand driver behaviour, and reduce accidents and improve safety. It claims to serve over 2,500 fleet across India, the Middle East, the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, and South Africa. The company will use the funds raised in Series-A round to strengthen its teams from the engineering, customer success, product, marketing, sales and analytics sides for growth. Lightmetrics was founded in 2015 by Soumik Ukil, Ravi Shenoy, Mithun Uliyar, Gururaj Putraya, Pushkar Patwardhan and Krishna AG, who had worked together at Nokia Research on computer vision and ML for cameras.

Trai directs telecom companies to block all unverified telemarketers

Telemarketers have to be registered on the DLT platform

Communications ministry organises 2-day global IoT/M2M conference in Delhi

With an aim to evolve a synergistic framework for wider collaboration amongst the key stakeholders Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) is organising a two-day global IoT/M2M conference in Delhi, informed the Ministry of Communications on Thursday.The conference was conducted in association with the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India and Telecommunications Standards Development Society India (TSDSI), here yesterday.The conference is centred on the theme 'Growth of IoT/M2M ecosystem through standardised implementations which aims to evolve a synergistic framework for wider collaboration amongst the key stakeholders of IoT/M2M ecosystem spanning R & D, academia, Government, industry, start-ups, global Telecom associations and Standards Development Organisations. This would facilitate the faster development of innovative, standardised and interoperable IoT/M2M solutions for wide-ranging applications in diverse areas."The world is experiencing a new era of a

TCS set to win $2-billion deal from BSNL for 4G and 5G roll-out

The official said Tata's recently acquired subsidiaries Tejas Network and Saankhya Labs would also participate in producing necessary equipment as per the deal

What is telematics? What are its advantages?

Like aeroplanes, vehicles too have their own version of 'black box' which monitors driving habits, vehicle usage and distances covered. They are called telematics. Find out more about it here

TMS Ep112: Economic recovery, Kabeer Biswas, markets, telematics

How is India's recovery shaping up as states relax restrictions? What is Dunzo CEO Kabeer Biswas's growth strategy? Which stocks bucked the trend and soared in Feb? What's telematics? All answers here

This scientist is making roads safer with mobile telematics technology

Hari Balakrishnan of MIT has been working on inferring bad driving behaviour using sensor data from phones and other IoT devices in vehicles to help reduce thousands of road crashes each year

Infosys to implement cloud-based telematics solution for Toyota Material

Infosys said it would enable remote monitoring and diagnostic capabilities including vehicle access control, system maintenance, condition sensing and location tracking

All you need to know about telematics insurance

This form of device-based insurance uses GPS to measure how much a car runs and the speed that it is run at