Frans Vandemeulebroucke, the Marketing Director of ACUNIA, introduced the company and its open telematics framework (OTF) solution at the OSGi World Congress on September 24, 2002. ACUNIA has 100 employees across several global offices and has developed an open-architecture, Java-based approach for vehicle telematics endorsed by automakers, telecom companies, and content providers. The presentation covered the challenges of vehicle telematics, how ACUNIA's OTF provides an open standards-based solution, and the results of their field test demonstrating the platform.