Verizon Brings 4G To GM OnStar Vehicles
General Motors’ recent agreement to open up its OnStar interface to third-party app developers means that customers will soon need significantly more bandwidth.
Anticipating that demand, GM and Verizon Sunday at the Consumer Electronics Show introduced a Chevy Volt that’s been dubbed a “second-generation connected research vehicle.”
The car connects to OnStar’s Advanced Telematics Operating System (ATOS) cloud server via Verizon’s 4G LTE network, in essence giving passengers a built-in mobile hot spot.
The OnStar research vehicle is able to stream online and home content to individual users in segmented zones. For example, front- and rear-seat passengers can view different content: video chat using Skype and gaming can co-exist.
Users that have smart homes — with Web-controlled alarm and thermostat systems — can connect to those systems as well.
As of Sunday, Relay Rides, a peer-to-peer car-sharing service that offers a mobile app to unlock OnStar-equipped vehicles, was the only developer to unveil an Onstar program. Previously, Relay Rides members had to install an add-on device that was accessed through a membership card.
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