Reaching new connectivity solutions in 100 days Porsche and PACE develop technology for cashless fueling Karlsruhe/Stuttgart, Germany, 18.10.2018 Fast lane at the gas station: Porsche customers will soon be able to directly pay for gas via their car’s infotainment system. The sport car manufacturer developed a solution for this together with the IoT startup PACE Telematics. Image-download (link) Video-download (link) With this new solution, Porsche customers can start a navigation to a fitting gas station, then select a fuel pump and fill up their car. Afterwards, they are able to complete the payment process within their car. “With cashless fueling, we want to offer comfortable and fast fueling to Porsche customers,” says Sven Maisenbacher, project lead of infotainment development at Porsche, “We’ve shown that the technology works. The next step’s goal is making the solution available to our customers.” Direct connection between car and gas station Through an integrated, digital interface within the car, an automatic connection is formed with the respective gas station system as soon as a Porsche driver stops at a gas station. After the authorization, the fueled gas can simply be payed via the display of the infotainment system. “Our flexible cloud platform is the technological foundation for this system, which can be used within an automobile setting in a straightforward manner thanks to its many programming interfaces. This backend makes a direct communication between Porsche Connect users and cash register systems as well as payment services possible,” says Dr. Martin Kern, founder and managing director of PACE Telematics. PACE as partner for connectivity and the internet of things The startup based in Karlsruhe offers a number of so-called microservices surrounding the connected car, which can be licensed as software modules based on the PACE big data cloud. With these, completely new value-added services can be created for automobile manufacturers, suppliers, workshops, fleet operators, and drivers themselves. Partners like Eberspächer, DEKRA, SAP, and ABT Sportsline are already benefitting from collaborating with PACE. The pilot project with Porsche has been created within 100 days in the course of the German innovation platform “Startup Autobahn”. About PACE PACE Telematics hosts a manufacturer-independent, cloud-based automotive big data platform. With its technology, the startup based in Karlsruhe turns cars into smartcars in an easy way – and thus makes driving safer, less expensive and more comfortable. One of the main innovations are the flexible IoT platform PACE Cloud with microservices and APIs, which allow for an uncomplicated use and access within an automotive environment, as well as the PACE Car apps and the PACE Link (an OBD2 adapter). Since 2018, the first manufacturers are integrating PACE directly into controlling units of their cars. PACE therefore no longer requires an OBD2 port. For consumers, PACE currently offers 9 features. These include, among others, an automatic emergency call, an electronic logbook, reading and explaining trouble codes and a Performance Monitor with real-time car data. PACE Telematics GmbH https://business.pace.car https://www.pace.car Office Karlsruhe: Haid-und-Neu-Str. 18, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Office Berlin: Chausseestrasse 8A, 10115 Berlin, Germany Founded: 2015 Employees: 35 Managing directors: Dr. Martin Kern, Robin Schönbeck, Philip Blatter Press contact: Kirstin Messerschmidt [email protected] Phone: +49 30 432 088 13 Cell: +49 177 486 66 38 .