I have been more involved in development of infotainment systems this year. BMW demonstrates what they call ConnectedDrive and Ford updates their Sync system to what they call myFord Touch
Compared to the amount of information at the links above there is very little about the comparable 2010 Volvo infotainment system at the official Volvo website. Note that the BMW is just a concept vehicle, while the Volvo system in in production, and still has less information about it on the web.
When the car gets connected, it also gets exposed: Telematics and security: Protecting the connected car
Therer are some interesting news about some major players as well: Nokia announce a strategic partnership with Microsoft on 11 February. I have no idea how this will affect Meego and GENIVI. Time will tell...
On the other hand there was a lot of activity around GENIVI at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. And GENIVI is based on Meego...
Showing posts with label GENIVI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GENIVI. Show all posts
Monday, February 14, 2011
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Available infotainment platforms
I have previously written about various platforms for infotainment systems. I also had a slide about it in my presentation on Lindholmen Software Development day, where my point was to say that it is possible to use either a commercial platform, such as Windows Embedded Automotive or an open source such as Meego. It is a business decisions which way an OEM wants to go, not a technical.
I have probaly missed some, but here is a list of infotainment platforms available today for an OEM to build an in-vehicle infotainment system on:
I have probaly missed some, but here is a list of infotainment platforms available today for an OEM to build an in-vehicle infotainment system on:
- Windows Embedded Automotive, used for example in Ford's Sync.
- QNX Aviage
- Mecel Betula Suite - Automotive Bluetooth Platform
- Meego
- GENIVI, but there is little informaiton about the techical solition on the webiste. They will most likely utilise the Meego platform.
- Harman has an infotainment platform. They recenlty acquired AHA Mobile which probably will be integrated.
- There are alot of notices on using Android for in-vehicle infotainment if one searches the web, but I have not been able to find any open source software based on Android for in-vehicle use.
- Continental's Autolinq seems to be Android-based, but is not open source in the same sense as e.g. Meego, and apps must be approved (by Continental?) to be downloaded.
- Luxoft offers LUXnet, which is also Android-based, but I cannot find any information besides a press release on their homepage.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Meego
I have previously written about GENIVI and Moblin in this blog. I have to confess that I haven't followed the progress of either initiative.
GENIVI seems to be progressing, there is a new report on Marketing Requirements with a summary publicly available. But for an open source project it does not seem to be very open. It is interesting to note that they see themselves as different compared to a Linux platform, at least commercially.
Moblin seems to have been replaced by Meego as the in-vehicle Linux platform, with backin from Intel and Nokia. Meego had it's first release for In-Vehicle Infotainment in August this year. If I understand it correctly you can download it and run it as a infotainment system already now if you like, though I have not tried this...
I still believe that technically GENIVI will build on Moblin, or now Meego, but I cannot find anything about that on their homepage.
GENIVI seems to be progressing, there is a new report on Marketing Requirements with a summary publicly available. But for an open source project it does not seem to be very open. It is interesting to note that they see themselves as different compared to a Linux platform, at least commercially.
Moblin seems to have been replaced by Meego as the in-vehicle Linux platform, with backin from Intel and Nokia. Meego had it's first release for In-Vehicle Infotainment in August this year. If I understand it correctly you can download it and run it as a infotainment system already now if you like, though I have not tried this...
I still believe that technically GENIVI will build on Moblin, or now Meego, but I cannot find anything about that on their homepage.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Some blog posts
Some blog posts which I think are interesting from an automotive software architecture viewpoint:
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
GENIVI and moblin?
I still have not found any solid technical description about the GENIVI platform, but some internet detective work directed me towards the moblin homepage which has a community directed to LINUX use for in-vehicle-infotainment.
Seeing that both initiatives are open source based on Linux, that there are common members between GENIVI and moblin (i.e. Intel and Wind River) and the goals of the projects are very similar I assume the technical solution will also be similar. The moblin architecture is described here...
Seeing that both initiatives are open source based on Linux, that there are common members between GENIVI and moblin (i.e. Intel and Wind River) and the goals of the projects are very similar I assume the technical solution will also be similar. The moblin architecture is described here...
Thursday, March 5, 2009
GENIVI
Genivi is a brand new alliance to promote open source software for in-vehicle infotainment (official start March 2009). The founders include BMW, Wind River and Intel among others.
I have not heard about about the initiative before, but a quick google search revealed some introductory articles:
I have not heard about about the initiative before, but a quick google search revealed some introductory articles:
- http://www.genivi.org
- http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/bmw_in_drive_conversation_with_open_source
- http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/cebit_2009_bmw_and_partners_found_genivi_open_source_platform
- http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3663
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