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Jörg Decker, Capgemini
droidcon 2012, March, 14th
The Android Passenger Towards Android-based In-Vehicle Service Platforms
Due to its openness and attractive ecosystem, Android already appeared on all kinds of platforms ...
?
... will Android also make it into cars?
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• Bringing the smart phone experience into cars
• Opportunities for vehicle apps
• The vehicle context matters: challenges and limitations
• Distribution and control: vehicle app stores?
• Integration approaches
• Android as an in-vehicle service platform
Agenda
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Audio Content
Today’s smart phone users demand for seamless integration of their existing digital world into vehicles
Mail & Contacts
Social Media
Favourite Apps
Phone & IM
Feeds, News
Games
Business Calendar
• Drivers and passengers want to stay online when entering their car
• Consumers want to connect their devices and expect the same digital services and data within their car
• Users are spoiled by the fast-pace entertainment industry with small innovation cycles
• Digital services become an important differentiating factor for the OEMs
Notifi-cations
Pictures Video
Docu-ments
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There are many opportunities for new and innovative services and apps for cars!
Is there a car app for that?
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What are the major challenges for bringing apps into vehicles?
Challenges for the Automotive Industry
• Keeping driving safe and avoiding distraction
• Focussing on the important use cases and innovations that make the difference and that customers want to pay for
• Finding the right platform, distribution model and degree of control
• Coping with increasing complexity and higher costs due to testing and certification
Who pays for that?
Angry birds while driving? All lifestyle! No real need ...
Nice – but let’s build cars ...
What about security?
Are we able to control and maintain this? How about safety?
App quality? Fear of image loss
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How open should the app platform be? Who builds and controls the vehicle apps?
Closed platform
Proprietary apps
Third-party apps
Ordered by OEMs
Certified apps
Controlled openness
Open platform almost no restrictions
Dev
Community
OEM
App diversity =
sales argument
Control of safety regulations and integration
Innovation potential
Degree of the OEM’s overall control
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The driving context matters - avoiding distraction and driving safety must stay a top priority
“Of those people killed in distracted-driving-related crashes, 995
involved reports of a cell phone as a distraction
(18% of fatalities in distraction-related
crashes)”.*)
“Of those injured in distracted-driving-related crashes, 24,000
involved reports of a cell phone as a distraction
(5% of injured people in distraction-related
crashes)”.*)
*) TRAFFIC SAFETY FACTS, Distracted Driving 2009
NHTSA, U.S. Department of Transportation
Human–Machine–Interfaces (HMI)
(Touch) Displays
Input Controls Speakers / Mics
In-Vehicle Service Platform
• In-car apps and services should
– Have an optimized UI/UX for in-vehicle usage
– Use existing car interfaces and speech control
– Have common access points and navigation patterns
– Be context-aware (driving situation, parking, passenger seat)
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Integration Example: mirroring the smart phone screen to the head unit display
• There is no common standard for external device integration today
– basic support exists via Bluetooth and media protocols
– A bunch of devices and some new car models expected in 2012 with support for MirrorLink™
– “Headless” Integration Example: Ford SYNC ® AppLink™ : e.g. web radio, TTS twitter client, news client
In-Vehicle Service Platform
App App
Human–Machine–Interfaces
(Touch) Displays Input Controls
Speakers / Mics
Smart Phone
App
• Apps share the display and can run on the service platform and on the smart phone
• App controlled by the physical vehicle interfaces
Speech control
Text-to-Speech
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Vehicle data apps example: social networking fuel consumption contest
Who of you is the greenest driver?
Besides me ...
FORD OpenXC, “Fuel Efficiency Monitor”
TechCrunch 2011 – Open Hardware Approach
Renault R-Link, LeWeb 11
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Vehicle data access today: we developed an Android app prototype that accesses real-time data via On-Board Diagnostics
Use-Cases:
• Fuel consumption calculation
• Social media features, trip recording
Vehicle Network
ECU ECU
CAN OBD
OBD
BT Adapter Bluetooth
Vehicle
Data
App
OBD II
Challenges:
• Access is very low-level via OBDII messages
• Fuel consumption calculation for different fuel types based on standard OBD data
• Access to vendor-specific data usually not published
The Future:
• No external hardware should be required
• The vehicle service platform should provide data access via a standard Car-API
OBD Port
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VISION: in-vehicle service platform running native Android
In-Vehicle Service Platform
Mgmt.
Service
(OEM)
Apps Market
(OEM)
Ve
hic
le-A
PI
(OE
M-S
pe
c Im
ple
me
nta
tion)
Human–Machine–Interface (HMI)
Android
Vehicle Network (Low-Level)
App
(OEM)
App
(Devs)
App
(Certified)
• Native Android apps can be installed by the user and run directly on the service platform
• User Interface
– Navigation based on a directional controller without touchpad possible (focusable=true)
– Enhanced speech-control and text-to-speech support
• Vehicle-API provides access to vehicle data and controls
– <uses-feature
name=“vendor.car.model”>
– Sensor.TYPE_VEHICLE_SPEED
• Car-specific providers, services, intents
– VehicleSpecificationProvider
– RealTimeCarDataService [AIDL]
– android.intent.action.CAR_PARKED
– android.intent.action.BATTERY_LOW
• App distribution
– Google Market: your car is just another device showing up in your Android market account
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Android’s arriving - Renault R-Link: tablet-based service platform running Android
Announcements (Sept. 2011):
• 50 Apps will be available in the “Renault Market”
• Starting in 2012: Renault Clio
• Distribution model: app certification by vendor
• Dashboard-mounted tablet
• Opportunity for App developers and companies
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Summary
Challenges
Android’s
Pole Position
Android has great a potential for being the first-choice open platform for innovative vehicle apps and services
• Portable, extensible, powerful open source stack
• Open architecture, strong security concepts
• Proven solutions and use-cases for management and distribution of apps
• Low risk for a “dead end solution” for the OEMs
• Developer community eager to conquer new platforms
• Excellent chances for Android to become the first-choice platform for innovative vehicle apps and services - beyond infotainment
• Certification-based app platform fits best for a safety-critical vehicle environment with demand for high quality
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• Vehicle-context: driving safety and distraction
• Degree of control: open vs. closed platform
• Still no established standards: OEMs still in the phase of finding the best solution
• Security and patch management
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