{"id":574840,"date":"2022-04-06T12:47:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T10:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=574840"},"modified":"2022-04-06T14:06:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:06:22","slug":"toyota-connect-get-wi-fi-in-your-car-and-so-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/574840\/toyota-connect-get-wi-fi-in-your-car-and-so-much-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Connect &#8211; Get Wi-Fi in your car, and so much more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota Connect is a powerful service that gives drivers and passengers access to connectivity, convenience, and safety benefits in their car.<\/p>\n<p>It is offered by Toyota South Africa as a business-to-customer and business-to-business solution &#8211; and comes standard with all Toyota and Lexus models manufactured from September 2019 onwards.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyota.co.za\/my-toyota\/toyota-connect?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_term=April+2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to learn more about Toyota Connect.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We take a look at the powerful features Toyota Connect has to offer users, below.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Wi-Fi in your car<\/h3>\n<p>A standout feature of Toyota Connect is that it turns your car into a Wi-Fi hotspot.<\/p>\n<p>This lets occupants connect their smartphones, tablets, and other devices to the Internet through their vehicle \u2013 perfect for work or long road trips.<\/p>\n<p>This in-car Wi-Fi service is standard on all new Toyota and Lexus models, and includes 15GB of free data once-off when you activate it in the MyToyota App.<\/p>\n<p>Users can then easily top up their data allocation when needed, from the MyToyota App or their banking app.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Digital logbook<\/h3>\n<p>Toyota Connect is integrated into your car\u2019s electronics and feeds important data, such as mileage and drive time, to the MyToyota App.<\/p>\n<p>This lets you control various features offered by Toyota Connect &#8211; including, but not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Live navigation<\/li>\n<li>Car battery health monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Real-time roadside assistance with impact detection<\/li>\n<li>GPS location tracking<\/li>\n<li>Digital logbook<\/li>\n<li>Fleet monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Driver monitoring and rating<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A particularly important feature listed above is roadside assistance with impact detection.<\/p>\n<p>This offers 24\/7 access to the AA in case of an emergency, while the real-time battery health monitoring reduces your chances of being stranded and needing to call for help.<\/p>\n<p>Equally important is the digital logbook that is stored in the MyToyota App.<\/p>\n<p>The logbook allows users to automatically track their trips \u2013 including distance, and the time a journey took place.<\/p>\n<p>You can then receive notifications when your car should have its next service, and book it in through the MyToyota App.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Business owners<\/h3>\n<p>Toyota has taken business owners into account, too, with the Toyota Connect platform.<\/p>\n<p>The free MyToyota Fleet Lite App offers many benefits on top of the standard MyToyota App, all of which are aimed at small to medium enterprise (SME) owners.<\/p>\n<p>This includes the ability to track and manage up to 50 Toyota Connect-equipped vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>This allows managers to monitor driver behaviour and keep track of all their vehicles in a single, easy-to-use app.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyota.co.za\/my-toyota\/toyota-connect?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_term=April+2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to learn more about Toyota Connect and the Toyota Fleet Lite app.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota Connect is a powerful service that gives drivers and passengers access to connectivity, convenience, and safety benefits in their car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":574842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[2041],"class_list":["post-574840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574840","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574916,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574840\/revisions\/574916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}