New Services Beta Program

Most folks know Autonet Mobile as the company that provides reliable Internet connectivity to cars in motion. Starting now, we're beginning to open the curtains a bit and reveal more about where we are headed. One question we sometimes get is "Why do I need Internet in the car?". If you think of the Internet from only a browser perspective, that's a really good question. We think of the Internet as much more than that. Beginning this month, we're going to be letting some of our customers try out some of our new services as part of our beta program.

We're going to start with 2 new location based services. "Geo Fence" and "Find My Car".

Geo Fence

With a Geo Fence, you can define a virtual geographical area to make sure vehicles follow approved routes. If a designated boundary is crossed, you'll receive a notification with a time, date and location stamp. Reverse GeoFences also can be configured to alert you to vehicles that enter an area you designate as restricted. You can set up multiple fences with different activation times. Plus you can set yourself up to be notified via a Text message to your cell phone or by email.

Find My Car

With "Find My Car", you'll always be able to see where your car is. No need to call the police or pay expensive fees to a tracking service. Just go to our secure and convenient web site and see where it is. It can easily be hidden so a car thief doesn't know to disable it. While this is great for finding a stolen car, I think it's actually going to be more useful for finding your car in the mall or airport parking lot.

If you're interested in being part of our beta program just send us an email to beta@autonetmobile.com . We're only doing the Beta program with the CarFi branded routers, so not everyone will be able to participate. If you're not sure which version you have give our support team a call at 1-800-977-2107 or if you look at the top of you're router it'll have 2 USB ports on it if it's a CarFi model.

We're not ready to announce the price for these new features are going to be yet, but you can be sure that it's going to be very reasonable and blow away competing solutions out there. We're able to do this because the router was built with features like these in mind and we don't have to require you to buy a whole new system.

These are just the first of many new applications that are coming and I wish I could mention them all now, but our marketing folks would have a fit. Look for some really cool applications focused around music and video in the car coming soon. Now that we've got a reliable Internet link in the car, we've got a lot of ideas on how folks can use it. I'd love to hear your ideas too, so please send them on.

Posted at 05:12PM Nov 30, 2009 by dmoeller in Doug Moeller  |