OnStar plans to let third party developers create new apps for their devices.
OnStar announced Sunday that IT will open up its ATOMS cloud up platform to selected third-party developers in early 2012.
OnStar, known for its subscription-based in-vehicle communication theory services, operates its Advanced Telematics Operating System (ATOMS). ATOMS is a overcast political platform that helps OnStar connect to its 6 million customers and bring them services so much as turn-by-turn navigation. Now third-party developers wish be able to develop applications for the OnStar ATOMS cloud platform using the company's API, which will embody released in the spring of 2012.
The company hopes that opening up its chopine to ordinal-company developers will allow them to extend their portfolio on the far side just emergency communication theory services and navigation (though OnStar provides other services, so much as workforce-liberal calls, navigation is what most customers know them for).
RelayRides
OnStar also revealed its prototypic one-third-party API user of the ATOMS platform on Sunday: RelayRides. RelayRides is a "peer-to-compeer fomite-sharing marketplace."
RelayRides is a mesh that connects idle cars (cars that their owners aren't using patc they'atomic number 75 busy for illustration) to people who need cars for humble amounts of time. It's sort of like ZipCar, but with one by one-owned vehicles.
With RelayRides if you ain a car, but you don't use it day in and day out–and you want to make some extra money–you put up rent it out to people who don't undergo cars but occasionally need to use them. You go onto RelayRides and bent your price (from $5/hour) and the multiplication when you South Korean won't need your car. Then, mortal who inevitably a gondola for a mate hours Oregon even a day can log on and rent your car at your exercise set Price, take it out for a spin, and, if everything goes well, return it back in one piece (all renters are screened for number one wood safe before they dismiss snag). If something does happen to your vehicle, RelayRides offers a $1 million policy on your car.
RelayRides testament also spouse with OnStar and GM to add more security to the procedure. Using the ATOMS platform, RelayRides will let renters unlock the to-be-rented car with their smartphone. That way you don't too rich person to hired hand-dispatch the winder play a trick on and worry or so the renter and your keys.
Selected Developers Only
To that degree the app offerings are a undersize sparse. Because OnStar wants to keep its reputation as a company that extremely values auto safety intact, information technology will only be releasing its API to selected developers.
"We want to give people 1,001 reasons to donjon their OnStar subscription sporty," said OnStar CIO Eric Litt. "We feel that chess opening up our proprietary API to developers will ensure that OnStar continues to keep customers connected in ways they never thought possible."
OnStar may have realized that Ford, Chevrolet, and others want to experience on-board with in-vehicle communication theory systems, and it seems unregenerate to be one step ahead.
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