They are operating together as partners and have experience providing automotive UI software to more than twenty automotive customers at the same time. They believe that they have a standout and innovative approach to the situation.
By creating this suite of specific tools and components for automobiles, the industry will benefit from lower costs of development and a faster marketing time frame. Any time you can save money in a recession is a good thing. And this recession appears to have some staying power.
This suite will help free engineers and designers up from boring tasks so that they can focus more on creating high-quality experiences for the end users with an optimized time to market the finished product. This is a win-win situation for both the manufacturers as well as the customers who are going to benefit from all the advancements made in the technology.
Plan
As per Tero Marjamaki, Head for Automotives at Qt, instead of delivering individual capabilities and tools to the automobile manufacturers, they have built platform elements which enable fast ramp-ups for just about any automotive program there is. Anyone can use this pre-built suite with chosen hardware to start differentiating their development immediately as all of the initial development is taken care of for you in advance.
They believe that the automotive industry requires a platform where products can be built quickly and on the fly using an unbroken chain of tools from prototype to production which allows for rapid development, debugging, and testing of these products. This will help streamline the entire process and produce results in a relatively less amount of time. This should also help with increasing the accuracy with which these products are manufactured and tested.
The Suite
This suite delivers a modern architecture which enables stunning 2D and 3D user experiences combined with a secure cloud service. The dual scheme or licensing allows car manufacturers to develop eco-systems with innovation around IVI offerings right from the concept stage all the way to the production stage. This is completely revolutionizing the way automobile manufacturers are working on product development and integration.
Being cross platform does not just mean flexibility when it comes to choosing target operation systems. It also means having applications that can build and run on all desktop systems, enabling development, and design teams to be productive much before the target hardware is widely available for adoption. The Qt code can even be re-used for any mobile companion apps which will ultimately help reduce the cost of development and provide a more regular user experience all across the board.
The users are now more than ever connected with their smartphones and laptops. The cars are using Internet and smart apps to provide a richer, smarter, and more fulfilling experience to the end users who are looking for and innovative ways to experience their cars. Now our cars are becoming smart. The cell phone was first, now it is the car. The home is next but that is another topic.
To deliver projects smartly and quickly, it is critical to develop tools which understand the framework that are used. The Qt suite doesn't just include high-level tools for inspection which let you run diagnostics on target or in partially or fully simulated environments, but also provides the building blocks for easily creating custom tools for frameworks of your own.
These tools have proven to be quite useful in many automotive projects in the past and will continue to do so in the future as well.
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