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– The Toyota Motor Corporation will deploy developed by Ford solution Smart Device Link for integrating smartphones into the vehicle communication
– Open source software Smart Device Link provides interface between the vehicle and smartphone apps
– Automotive QNX Software Systems and UIEvolution also take over the technology from Ford and will incorporate them into their products
– With PSA Peugeot Citroën, Honda, Subaru and Mazda examine well-known companies, the potential of the software of Ford
– Similar to Ford SYNC® AppLink [TM] for models of Ford linked Smart Device Link applications such as Spotify, Glympse, iHeartRadio etc. with vehicles of other brands
– drivers can compatible smartphone apps easily and safely by using voice commands and controls in the cockpit to use
Several well-known automobile manufacturers and suppliers, led by the Toyota Motor Corporation as volume strongest car producer in the world, accept the developed by Ford software solution Smart Device Link. The modern interface software opens motorists all over the world a more interesting option to go to use their smartphone apps from the steering wheel. With Smart Device Link is an open source software, on the platform Ford SYNC® AppLink [TM] based. It enables the integration and operation of smartphone apps using voice control in the vehicle. The automotive supplier QNX Software Systems and UIEvolution have also opt for the solution of Ford and plan to integrate Smart Device Link into their products. The 100-percent subsidiary Livio Ford coordinates the open source project. Companies that want to use Smart Device Link get to the matching interfaces for each individual vehicle environment.
Since automotive manufacturers and suppliers rely on the software immediately from Ford, Smart Device Link rises to an the relevant industry standards. Drivers will benefit directly from this development, because it significantly increases the number of usable in the vehicle Apps. Thanks to a common software base for the entire industry app developers can now fully concentrate on programming the best possible product on the Standard Platform Smart Device Link.
Smart Device Link is motorists in models of many different brands are available. Thus, the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group is currently investigating the possibility to equip their vehicles with Smart Device Link. Even Honda, Mazda and Subaru deal with the Software.
“The biggest advantage of a common interface for the integration and operation of smartphone apps is that we in this way creating an industry-wide standard customer experience so that maximum comfort with ease of use -. while maintaining the different vehicle manufacturers wide latitude to equip their brands individually, “said Don Butler, Ford’s board of Networked Vehicles and Services. “Ford has the software deliberately created as open source, so it is accessible for every developer If all companies speak the same language, which also benefits our customers around the globe.”.
The software Smart Device Link and the interface AppLink belong to Ford Smart Mobility. With this plan of the producers in the areas of connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, customer experience, as well as data and analysis wants to set new standards.
Customers benefit from an industry uniform standard in vehicles are equipped with Smart Device Link, drivers and passengers can use popular apps directly on the display, buttons or voice recognition programs of the car. Even today are – depending on the region – many popular smartphone applications such as the music apps Spotify and iHeartRadio, the information programs AccuWeather and MLB or shopping portals such as Domino’s to choose from.
The number of compatible apps is expected to skyrocket in the future as the developers continue to create their programs thanks to Smart Device Link for a much larger number of models. The automotive manufacturers and suppliers in turn be able to offer a greater freedom of choice, as they want to include and use their smartphones into the vehicle to its customers through the acquisition of Smart Device Link. In addition, will continue to improve through the common standard, the quality and safety of the software, as more experts than before can work on it.
AppLink is as part of the communication and entertainment system Ford SYNC in more than five million cars by Ford around the world in action. By 2020, around 28 million vehicles will be equipped with this technology.
Thanks to the acquisition of Smart Device Link by other car manufacturers, this technology may be in the future in other world regions such as China, Taiwan, New Zealand and enforce Thailand.
A decisive boost to the community that is working on networked cars Smart Device Link is open to the entire open source community. Ford thus creates the prerequisite that the entire automotive industry highly differentiated on the same software base, brand-specific entertainment and networking solutions created and customers regardless of the type of their smartphones enjoy optimum app integration.
“To develop a smartphone networking with higher safety standards and perfect adaptation to the respective vehicle characteristics, is exactly the same as the added value of an automobile manufacturer to offer its customers,” says Shigeki Terashi, Vice-President of Toyota Motor Corporation. “We assume that join many companies our vision and get into the industry-wide collaboration on Smart Device Link”.
Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, QNX Software Systems – a subsidiary BlackBerry – provides a comprehensive portfolio of infotainment, telematics, security and audio solutions that are used in approximately 60 million vehicles worldwide. trust
More than 40 automotive manufacturers at QNX Software Systems. Ford refers by that partner, for example, the operating system for SYNC 3. QNX plans to Smart Device Link integrated into the infotainment platform QNX CAR [TM], which supports many manufacturers systems. With this step, released by Ford interface software would in many millions of vehicles move quickly around the globe.
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