DETROIT – For the first time in the awards history, OnStar President Chet Huber and Ford SYNC Chief Architect Joseph Berry shared the Telematics Leadership Award announced this week during the Telematics Detroit 2009 Conference & Exhibition at the Rock Financial Showcase.
Ford also won two other Telematics Update Awards:
Car Manufacturer Innovation Award, and Industry Newcomer Award for the SYNC. The entries were judged by a selection of independent consultants and industry experts, and a shortlist of the finalists in each category was announced last month.
“Ford Motor Company is very thankful and humbled to be recognized by such a prestigious organization as the Telematics Update and its industry professionals,�?� said Joesph Berry, Director-Product and Business Development. �??We are extremely proud to be a part of this very important industry event and we will continue to support it in the future.”
Telematics Leadership Award (Individual):
Joint Winners:
Chet Huber, President, OnStar
Joseph Berry, Director/Chief Architect – SYNC, Ford Motor Company
Runner-up: Andrew Poliak, Director of automotive business development, QNX Software Systems
Industry Newcomer Award:
Winner: FORD for SYNC
Runner-up: GENIVI Alliance
Best Embedded Telematics Service Award:
Winner: OnStar by GM
Runner-up: Airbiquity
Best Embedded Telematics Navigation Product Award:
Winner: BMW of North America, LLC
Runner-up: Visteon
Best Portable Telematics Solution Award:
Winner: TeleNav Inc.
Runner-up: Tele Atlas
Best Portable Navigation System Award
Winner: TomTom, Inc.
Best Aftermarket Device Award:
Joint Winners:
Autonet Mobile, Inc. and
Hughes Telematics
Runner up: Parrot
Best Telematics Component Solution Award:
Joint Winners:
Inrix and
NAVTEQ
Runner-up: Intel
Best Telematics Service & Application for Commercial Vehicles Award:
Winner: Daimler Trucks
Runner-up: NAVMAN Wireless
Best use of Telematics Technology in the Public Sector Award:
Winner: OnStar
Runner up: Inrix
Car Manufacturer Innovation Award
Winner: Ford
Runner-up: GM Onstar
Precksha Saksena-Sood, Managing Director of Telematics Update would like to offer her heartiest congratulation to all Telematics Awards 2009 winners and runner-ups. “2008/2009 has been a year of tremendous innovation. In a tougher climate companies need to offer even more cutting-edge solutions in order to succeed, and our winners and runners-up are living proof of that,” she said.
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