{"id":337633,"date":"2019-08-29T12:44:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T10:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=337633"},"modified":"2019-08-29T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T10:44:32","slug":"all-new-toyota-and-lexus-cars-sold-in-south-africa-will-have-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/337633\/all-new-toyota-and-lexus-cars-sold-in-south-africa-will-have-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"All new Toyota and Lexus cars sold in South Africa will have WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota South Africa has partnered with Vodacom Business and Netstar to equip all new Toyota and Lexus vehicles in South Africa with telematics technology, enabling drivers and passengers access to a WiFi hotspot.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota said that the new tech &#8211; under the name<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyota.co.za\/my-toyota\/toyota-connect\"> Toyota Connect<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; will be in every new vehicle sold after 1 September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, new owners will be given a once-off allocation of 15GB of free data upon purchasing a vehicle, which can then be topped-up via the MyToyota app once depleted.<\/p>\n<p>Through its subsidiary, Netstar, Altron jointly designed and developed the bespoke technology platform with Toyota, which enables Internet of Things (IoT) aspects such as telematics and fleet management.<\/p>\n<p>Altron Group chief executive Mteto Nyati said the technology was developed locally, and enables connectivity and gives real-time data to both Toyota and its customers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It positions Altron and South Africa as relevant players in the internet of things globally. We are truly excited about this collaboration,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Once a customer has opted in, the data aggregated from the telematics module will provide insights to Toyota, their dealer network, customers, fleet owners and third-party service providers such as the Automobile Association (AA), providing accident and breakdown assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The Toyota Connect service offers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WiFi connectivity<\/li>\n<li>Live Map<\/li>\n<li>Logbook &amp; trip playback<\/li>\n<li>Battery Health Checks<\/li>\n<li>Driver Behaviour Score<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Between seven and 15 devices can connect to the system at once, but the WiFi functionality will not work outside South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Data can be topped through various banking apps that sell Vodacom data. Airtime can be used, however it will be charged at out-of-bundle rates, Toyota said.<\/p>\n<p>If owners don&#8217;t want to use the service, they can choose not to opt-in, but the actual devices cannot be removed, the group said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/327365\/toyota-launches-limited-edition-hilux-sport-pricing\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Toyota launches limited-edition Hilux Sport \u2013 pricing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota South Africa has partnered with Vodacom Business and Netstar to equip all new Toyota and Lexus vehicles in South Africa with telematics technology, enabling drivers and passengers access to a WiFi hotspot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":337649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26,14267],"class_list":["post-337633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline","tag-toyoya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337659,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337633\/revisions\/337659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}