INFOTAINMENT

The global positioning system (GPS) is a space-based radio navigation system. And the use of GPS is increasing every day. It’s important for the manufactures to make sure that GPS receivers get signals and communicate properly with connected systems.

GPS navigation is a common feature in automobiles now. Drivers rely on this to find unfamiliar locations and find the route to reach that destination. Beyond this fundamental duty of the GPS navigator, present day navigators provides many new features such as alternative route to the same location, rerouting routes, routes avoiding tolls, ferries, other points of interest etc.

There are a series of fundamental receiver performance parameters applicable to GPS systems such as sensitivity, time to first fix, reacquisition time etc. We run test cases based on all these parameters to evaluate the performance of the GPS system and thus help the manufactures to find out errors in their system and to rectify them to provide customers better experience.

Automotive infotainment is generally a hardware and software platform that delivers audio and video in your car. This could be, for example, car radio broadcasting, audio and video streaming via a wireless (LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth®) or wired network (HDMI, Ethernet) or even a CD or USB device.

Tuner & Media solutions in cars are becoming increasingly complex. Mobile internet, traffic information, navigation, digital broadcast and streaming services are all combined in one system. Each service requires its own antennas. To ensure the correct functionality of each part of the infotainment system and to discover sources and effects of interference, we offer a complete set of test and measurement solutions for multimedia, audio, antennas and navigation services.

With the vast number of available broadcast, wireless and cellular standards, as well as different audio and video file formats and codecs, manufacturers of infotainment systems need to ensure the right functionality even in the presence of interference.

Infotainment, HMI (human-machine interface), and connectivity encompasses functions that allow the driver and passengers to interact with the vehicle. This delivers the convenience, information, and entertainment in a safe and seamless fashion. These are among the most readily-visible and highly-used functions in the vehicle.

These functions provide the greatest opportunity for unique branding and differentiation. This includes traditional radio tuners on the low end, all the way to complex infotainment systems controlled through large touch panel displays. Although the range of functions is quite broad, they share many common design challenges, among them. We test the software to ensure that the complex technical functions are perfectly interlinked to one another. The applications interact with one another and are easy for the driver to operate. Also we help the developers in localization of HMI in different market.