{"id":45233,"date":"2026-07-17T16:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45233"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:07:01","slug":"word-of-the-day-1132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/07\/17\/word-of-the-day-1132\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Telematics<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b id=\"mwCA\">Telematics<\/b>\u00a0is an interdisciplinary field encompassing\u00a0<a id=\"mwCQ\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Telecommunication\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telecommunication\" rel=\"mw:WikiLink\">telecommunications<\/a>, vehicular technologies (<a id=\"mwCg\" title=\"Road transport\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Road_transport\" rel=\"mw:WikiLink\">road transport<\/a>,\u00a0<a id=\"mwCw\" title=\"Road safety\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Road_safety\" rel=\"mw:WikiLink\">road safety<\/a>, etc., as part of\u00a0<a id=\"mwDA\" title=\"Intelligent transportation system\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intelligent_transportation_system\" rel=\"mw:WikiLink\">Intelligent transportation systems<\/a>), electrical engineering (sensors, instrumentation,\u00a0<a id=\"mwDQ\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Wireless communication\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wireless_communication\" rel=\"mw:WikiLink\">wireless communications<\/a>, etc.), and\u00a0<a id=\"mwDg\" title=\"Computer science\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_science\" rel=\"mw:WikiLink\">computer science<\/a>\u00a0(<a id=\"mwDw\" title=\"Multimedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multimedia\" rel=\"mw:WikiLink\">multimedia<\/a>,\u00a0<a id=\"mwEA\" title=\"Internet\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet\" rel=\"mw:WikiLink\">Internet<\/a>, etc.). [etc etc]\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telematics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in some promotional material:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fleet management is no longer just about GPS vehicle tracking and basic logistics. [Omitted] is a tech-first telematics leader, offering businesses a complete software suite of services to improve driver safety, track physical assets, and boost operational efficiencies, resulting in better customer experiences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose I should be embarrassed that I don&#8217;t know that particular word off-hand, but, to be honest, I&#8217;ve never tried to keep up with all the pitter-patter in my field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telematics: Telematics\u00a0is an interdisciplinary field encompassing\u00a0telecommunications, vehicular technologies (road transport,\u00a0road safety, etc., as part of\u00a0Intelligent transportation systems), electrical engineering (sensors, instrumentation,\u00a0wireless communications, etc.), and\u00a0computer science\u00a0(multimedia,\u00a0Internet, etc.). [etc etc]\u00a0[Wikipedia] Noted in some promotional material: Fleet management is no longer just about GPS vehicle tracking and basic logistics. [Omitted] is a tech-first \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/07\/17\/word-of-the-day-1132\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45234,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45233\/revisions\/45234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}