NAVTEQ provided services based on standard TPEG

Company NAVTEQ, owned by the Finnish manufacturer of mobile phones - Nokia, and which supplier of digital maps, local data and traffic information, and services with location and platform for mobile advertising, provided their services in a format appropriate standard of TPEG.

Standard TPEG (short for Transport Protocol Experts Group) includes a set of protocols that, according to the company significantly reduce costs for the transfer of information on road traffic and other content in cars and mobile devices. The new standard offers more opportunities, more flexibility and allows you to transfer large amounts of data at the same time reducing the mobile traffic and communication costs.

Based on the protocol HTTP, data containers can be transferred via standard 3G, HD and XML, as well as other methods of distribution.

NAVTEQ solution offers the ability to effectively transfer the compressed data, incremental updates and special content, whereby users pay only for the information they really need. Appropriate standard TPEG navigation services include:

User Authentication
Session management to oversee the traffic and incremental updates (delta-updates)
Search within a set range to save bandwidth - only such data that relate to your current location and its surroundings
Transfer in ZIP-archives - data compression helps reduce traffic
Hybrid transmission - when finding out of coverage HD, transmitted through the HD (if any) and TPEG carried over HTTP.