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Vroom! Vroom! Standby for the arrival of the in-car wireless base station. This year the Ford Motor Company aims to turn vehicles into rolling Wi-Fi hot spots when it introduces the second generation of its ‘SYNC’ in-car connectivity system. Inserting an owner’s compatible USB mobile broadband modem – sometimes called an ‘air card’ – into SYNC’s USB port will produce a secure wireless connection that will be broadcast throughout the vehicle, allowing passengers with Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices to access the Internet anywhere the broadband modem has connectivity. Also looking at new wireless deals-on-wheels is the ng Connect Program. Last November this organisation announced the LTE Connected Car, a new concept vehicle designed to show how 4G/Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband access technology, and the resulting ultra high bandwidth connectivity, can bring a range of new capabilities to the automobile. The LTE Connected Car concept - a next-generation ‘smart’ device on wheels supported by wireless broadband networking technology available - offers a range of navigation, personal security, entertainment and infotainment services to both drivers and passengers alike. The LTE Connected Car, which can also have in-car Wi-Fi hot spot functionality for full utilisation of all Wi-Fi-enabled in-car devices and connectivity to the cloud via LTE, gets an outing at this week’s giant Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in So too does the connected car demonstrator produced by automotive systems provider Visteon Corp. Technology value chain research and advisory company iSuppli has had a preview of the Visteon demonstrator. “Visteon provided iSuppli with an exclusive preview of its connected car demonstrator, which can link to the Internet through a variety of means,” says Richard Robinson, principal analyst, automotive electronics, for iSuppli. “This approach will allow the Visteon system to capitalise on all growth opportunities in the Internet car market.” The Visteon connected car demonstrator currently uses the Linux-based Moblin2.0 open source software platform optimised for mobile Internet devices. This is intended to enable Visteon to use existing open source features and applications to reduce development costs and develop new features in parallel. When a feature is ready, it can be ported to the specific platform. Another claimed advantage of the open source approach is software upgradeability, which will provide a level of future-proofing for the platform and allow the system to be upgraded after launch. And iSuppli has learned that Visteon plans to migrate the Moblin 2.0 Operating System (OS) to the automotive-compliant GENIVI OS as soon as it is released. Perhaps not coincidentally, the GENIVI Alliance, an automotive industry association sponsoring the development and adoption of an open in-vehicle Infotainment (IVI) reference platform, will be publicly unveiling GENIVI Platform version 1.0 at the CES. "The release of GENIVI 1.0 comes just ten months after the We say: vroom! vroom! John Williamson |
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