droidcon 2012: The Android passenger, Joerg Decker, Capgemini

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Jörg Decker, Capgemini droidcon 2012, March, 14th The Android Passenger Towards Android-based In-Vehicle Service Platforms

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The combination of smartphone and vehicules allows the seemless integration of the digital world of the driver with the vehicules. Possibilities of Android in cars are shown

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Jörg Decker, Capgemini

droidcon 2012, March, 14th

The Android Passenger Towards Android-based In-Vehicle Service Platforms

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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)

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(OE

M-S

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c Im

ple

me

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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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