Continental Includes Nokia/HERE 3D Navigation in New Infotainment Platform
Tuesday, August 27th 2013
Continental will unveil its GENIVI-based infotainment platform at the IAA Frankfurt Motor Show later this month and the company provided today an overview of the solution that will offer 360° surround view, LTE connectivity, 3D navigation from Nokia/HERE, MirrorLink connection to mobile devices and HTML5 apps.
This is the first automotive customer for Nokia’s GPS navigation system that has been thus far found only on smartphones. Based on the geolocation APIs (Application Programming Interface) from HERE, vehicle manufacturers can also develop their own location-based applications. The system also has associated PC, smartphone and tablet apps to preset the GPS navigation destination before reaching the car.
“Through a HTML5 portal, users can access a whole range of apps“, also said Continental, altough the company does not give more details on these apps.
The 360° surround view system, that seems to be one of the highlights of the solution, consists - depending on the size of the vehicle - of at least four surround view cameras, which capture the entire area around the vehicle.
The cameras can be used by the driver to display different perspectives and image sections on the infotainment system screen. They can even change to a bird's eye view on the screen and "float" freely above the vehicle.
But the cameras can also be used remotely, for example if the alarm is triggered the owner can access the camera feeds to look at his car.
Mobile devices can also be connected to the infotainment system using Bluetooth and MirrorLinkTM transmission.
The whole infotainment platform is based on a GENIVI operating system.