GEWI
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Traffic and Travel information services |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Founder | Hagen Geppert, Dr. Karl Will |
| Headquarters | Bernburg, Germany |
| Subsidiaries | GEWI North America, LLC, USA. GEWI Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd, Singapore. |
| Website | www.gewi.com |
GEWI was founded in 1992 by Hagen Geppert and Dr. Karl Will. The “GEWI” name was derived from the first two letters of the two founders’ family names. GEWI began as a specialist developer of programmable hardware for global television manufacturers, with customers including Sony and Grundig. In 1997, GEWI produced one of the world’s first FM receivers which collected RDS-TMC data and where the resulting traffic information was displayed on televisions located at airports. With the ability to inform travelers, GEWI’s customer identified a new requirement, to be able to display more traffic information than was available. One of the problems at the time was that few sources of accurate digitized traffic information were available. GEWI analyzed the customer requirement and offered to develop software to collect, view, create, store, and distribute traffic information to the RDS-TMC receivers. This became GEWI’s first generation of the TIC product, named “TMC Office”.
GEWI Business
The company consists of three corporations: GEWI Europe based in Germany, GEWI North America based in Texas, and GEWI Asia Pacific based in Singapore, with additional offices in the UK and USA. GEWI has a global customer base and has been ISO 9001 certified for quality standards annually since 1997, and is currently certified ISO 9001:2008.
TIC Product
After its first generation of TIC known as TMC Office, the product was renamed to TIC (Traffic Information Center). The product was architected, designed, and developed to be a fully commercial off-the-shelf product (COTS) which can be consistently used by its customers and to avoid problems associated with custom builds. Today, TIC is in its fourth generation and is used for a wide range of projects including Traffic and Travel Information Services (can include meteorological weather information), RDS-TMC , TPEG (over HTTP internet or digital broadcast such as DAB), Navigation System Testing (used by many device and car manufacturers), Traffic News for Radio (structured news reports auto-generated as ready by announcers), Data Harmonization and Exchange (can distribute data to big data systems which can then accurately compare and analyze data from different sources), Parking Information, Work Zones (such as road construction), Radio Data (using PAD, Program Associated Data with station names, schedules, and music titles) and Connected Vehicles.
TIC Digital Map and Location Referencing Methods
The TIC Smart Client application is used by operators to both manually create and view data, where the "Map" window type allows users to visualize traffic flow, weather, incident, camera images, and many other geo-related data on a map, precisely as it is intended to appear on Navigation devices. GEWI has designed its own map rendering engine which allows customers to use map data from commercial providers such as HERE and TomTom in GDF data format as well as map data from other providers. Data can be referenced to a variety of standards such as TMC table locations, as well as “on the fly” dynamic location referencing methods including OpenLR and AGORA-C.
Markets
The TIC Software is used by customers in commercial and government markets.
References
- ^ GEWI Demonstrates Local Hazard Warning System – Traffic Technology Today
- ^ Vehicle Demonstration – University of Michigan
- ^ TPEG Navigation Testing – Directions Magazine
- ^ OpenLR standard available in TIC – Traffic Technology Today