Web and Automotive

Jean-Marc Temmos

2012-11-14

Web And Automotive

data compiled from W3C & Auto Workshop Position Papers

Plan

• Visteon
• HMI design challenges:
  • Tools & Process
  • Bring new features to the user
• Some hints for improvement
  • UI.Cockpit
  • Web technologies
• Expectations and recommendations

Visteon & HMI Innovation

Tier 1 automotive supplier

25 000 employees worldwide

⇒ Visteon Software Technologies: center of expertise for HMI located in Sophia Antipolis, France

Mainly focused on:

• Development of new-generation HMIs for our customers (car Manufacturers)
• Transversal frameworks and tools to reduce the development time of new applications
• Collaborative Projects with Academics, SME and Industrials
• Concept Car Software Design and Development

⇒ Innovation Center (Design and Hardware) in Kerpen, Germany

Visteon Genivi Involvement

Tools and Process

From prototype to final embedded target.

• Many platforms/librairies. Lots of target specific code (Arm/Atom/x86, Qt/SVG/Air, OpenGL/OpenGLES/OpenVG, Linux/Windows/QNX)
• Many tools, many prototyping tools and design softwares: flash, html5, EBGuide, Altia, Vaps XT,
• Many experts in various domains (artists, designers, developpers,…)

• Logics / graphics unclear frontier
• Development cycles: the consumer elec. Vs the Automotive gap
• Consortiums Autosar, Genivi: new opportunities but also new constraints
• Technologies and standards changing very fast (e.g. Moblin → Meego → Tizen)

Improvements for the user

1. Customization

2. Multi-modal features

3. Context awareness

4. Open and Dynamic Architecture

Customization

• Interface & personalization
• Car re-design for new usages (car sharing, renting, auto-drive, …)
• User settings and preferences retrieving from the smartphone
• More than just css is required for branding & customization: different logics

Multi-modal

• Many screens and displays
• Haptics
• Speakers & Microphone
• Proximity dectection & gesture controls
• HDD & HUD

• Clusters & gauges
• Off-board speech recognition in the cloud / onboard
• Speech synthesis
• Lighting
• Climate and Fragrance

Lighting is a visual interface

Context Awareness

Context aware applications for Infotainment and ADAS use cases. Where to display relevant information depending on the context.

• Location based services
• Map enhanced / Map enabled services
• Onboard / offboard seamless switching
• Driver attention. Driver state inference
• Number and state of passengers
• Safety improvement

Open and Dynamic Architecture

Dynamic detection of mobile devices. Ubiquituous computing

• Seamless synchronization car → other devices (mobile, cloud)
• Networking and Web Management and integration with in-car systems
• Machine to Machine (M2M) communication and Swarm Intelligence
• Onboard perspective & Traffic perspective

Multi-Agent Systems and Distributed Architecture: D3Cos Project

E-Bee concept car

Car is THE development plaform

• Electronika, Munich, Nov. 2012
• CES Show, Las Vegas, Jan. 2013

UI.Cockpit Framework

• Centralize the application logic for cockpit HMI and distribute the GUIs over various HTML5 client displays
• Model View Controller based framework
• Keep working with the graphical environment that best fits on your target
• Client server distributed architecture and websocket based communication
• XML API
• HTML5/javascript graphics proxy available

Expectations and Recommendations

• Flexibility
• Limited scope
• Low level access to device calls
• Graphics SVG and 2D/3D
• Tools to compete with the Adobe toolchain
• Clean Logics / Graphics separation

Video & More info

Infotainement

Driver

Passenger

http://e-bee.visteon.com

Q & A