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ONE Lease, the French leasing and fleet management specialist will use TomTom's cloud-based Telematics Service Platform.  

The platform will be used across ONE Lease's entire fleet, potentially improving vehicle management and customer service.


The firm hope to get a greater understanding of maintenance and management scheduling, allowing its customers to utilise data to inform its business decisions. The integration will also cover the firm's privacy and data protection compliance requirements. 

“By partnering with TomTom Telematics," ONE Lease's Sales Director Marc Chapentier said, "we will be able to swiftly access important vehicle data from all of our leased vehicles to help us manage them more efficiently, and to raise the bar even higher in terms of service standards and added value solutions we offer to customers.”

Commenting on the benefits of car-connectivity, TomTom Telematics' VP of Business Development, Thomas Becher said: “With our Telematics Services Platform, our partners and customers can create new business models, and further challenge the standard in their industries,”

According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of telematics service subscribers using embedded systems will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31.9 percent from 49.0 million subscribers at the end of 2017 to 258.1 million subscribers at the end of 2023.

Moreover, Berg Insight forecasts that shipments of embedded car OEM telematics systems worldwide will grow from 26.8 million units in 2017 to reach 67.2 million units in 2023, which represents an attach rate of 71.7 percent.

Connected car services have evolved from being a differentiating factor to a common feature with a high attach rate among the premium car brands and are rapidly becoming increasingly common in mid-range vehicles. GM’s OnStar was launched 20 years ago and is today the market leader worldwide with well above 14.0 million users in total, out of which 12.3 million were in North America by year-end 2017.

BMW includes telematics hardware as a standard feature on all its cars sold in 45 markets worldwide and has the second largest user base of an estimated 8.0 million equipped vehicles. PSA Group is currently in third place with 2.9 million connected vehicles in Europe. The carmaker launched an emergency and assistance call service already in 2003. Additional automotive OEMs with over 2 million telematics subscribers also include Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota/Lexus and FCA Group.

“There are several connected car services that experience growing demand from stakeholders including consumers, car manufacturers, governments and various third parties as awareness of the value of telematics spreads”, said Martin Svegander, IoT analyst at Berg Insight.

The leading carmakers are gradually exploring new use cases and business models for telematics such as premium concierge services, usage-based insurance and personal car sharing. “Recently, we have also seen GM, Jaguar Land Rover and Hyundai launch in-vehicle commerce platforms that create opportunities for retailers and merchants to connect with consumers”, added Mr. Svegander.

For field service organisations it will be interesting to see how this trend continues to shape the way we view fleet management and w2e are certainly beginning to see some maturation of a technology that will have a significant impact on our sector.

Want to know more? Download report brochure: The Global Automotive OEM Telematics Market

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