Sierra Wireless, PSA Peugeot Citroën Extend Collaboration For Connected Cars

(RTTNews) - Sierra Wireless (SWIR, SW.TO) announced a new milestone in its collaboration with PSA Peugeot Citroën (PEUGF), with a next-generation design win for Sierra Wireless using AirPrime AR Series smart automotive modules, the Legato platform, and the AirVantage cloud.

PSA Peugeot expands beyond emergency calling to provide in-vehicle applications and services using Sierra Wireless embedded modules, Legato platform, and AirVantage cloud.

PSA Peugeot Citroën, which has been a Sierra Wireless customer since 2001, has connected more than 1.6 million vehicles. Since the introduction of their in-vehicle emergency notification systems in 2003, Peugeot, Citroën and DS vehicles have sent more than 13,000 alerts to emergency services operating in 17 European countries.

With its next generation of connected cars, PSA will utilize Sierra Wireless device-to-cloud technology to expand from emergency notification into additional value-added connected services for its customers.

These additional services are enabled through the Legato platform, which provides an application framework and development environment that allows third-party applications to be built and hosted directly on the wireless module.

With integrated AirVantage cloud service, these applications can be securely downloaded and updated remotely over the air. This next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) solution will begin to reach the market within PSA's 2017 models.