Connected car services provider, Inrix, has completed the acquisition of OpenCar, a US-based automotive software and services company.
The OpenCar purchase extends the Inrix cloud platform into the dashboard with a portfolio of third-party content and applications in a customisable user experience (UX) automakers fully control.
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“Today, over half of the connected vehicles in the world use Inrix services,” said Inrix president and CEO, Bryan Mistele. “By 2020, more than a quarter billion connected cars will be on the road.
“With the OpenCar acquisition, Inrix is in the driver’s seat to provide those connected services and expand into the digital dashboard with applications designed especially for next-gen automotive experiences.”
OpenCar, backed for the last five years by a partnership with Mazda, maintains it offers the industry’s only white label, standards-based application development environment and framework.
The OpenCar framework is controlled by the automaker and enables for brand-, model- and region-specific touch and voice interfaces across the infotainment experience.
Inrix adds it is leveraging its ten-year history of delivering auto-grade, cloud-based solutions to expand OpenCar into the first scalable, global automotive app platform.
OpenCar provides developer tools and services to create apps for an open, industry-wide ecosystem.
It also enables app deployment across different makes and models while still allowing each automaker to create a customer experience.
