Harman has launched its Ignite Platform, delivering management of connectivity, analytics, applications and devices in one place.
The new solution largely applies to connected services in the automotive industry, but also extends to IoT, including Smart Cities and Connected Enterprises.
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“The Harman Ignite platform is a perfect match for Subaru because it allows us to streamline our process for device management,” said Subaru of America infotainment product manager, Anthony Landamia.
“We are able to introduce and easily deploy new cloud applications and services to our customers. Given Harman’s history in on-vehicle and cloud technologies, we’re excited to leverage this platform’s capabilities.”
The Harman Ignite Platform is an end-to-end platform that enables connectivity, device management, application enablement, analytics and managed services capabilities. It allows automakers, dealers and service providers to introduce and deploy new cloud applications and services.
It is scalable and modular enabling OEMs to initially purchase a base set of functionality – and through their partnership with Harman – build on that core base with additional services and capacity as needed. This new platform targets existing and future demands for scalability, security and flexibility in the provisioning of connected car and IoT services and applications.
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By GlobalData“Ignite is part of the evolution of Harman being a service provider and application enabler in the connected car of the future,” said Strategy Analytics, associate director, global automotive practice, Roger Lanctot.
“Car companies are seeking secure, flexible platforms that enable rapid prototyping and updating of new services targeting new vehicle ownership models and use cases.”
- Examples of automotive use cases that leverage the Harman Ignite Platform are highlighted below and will be demonstrated at CES this week:
- Vehicle Connect: Allows a vehicle to communicate through the cloud to other platforms such as smart homes, smart infrastructures, and vehicle-to-vehicle – which helps simplify, streamline and enhance user experiences.
- Cloud-Based Driver Profiles: Leverages the cloud to set preferences for content in any vehicle the consumer accesses. This solution leverages predictive learning in the vehicle to adjust preferences, provides access to third party services regardless of vehicle and accommodates cloud portability of preferences and identity.
- Car-as-a-Service: Delivers a cloud service enabling Car Sharing, Ride Sharing and Fleet Management models.
- Vehicle Health and Diagnostics: Offers insights into vehicle health to help build relationships with car owners and improves car performance while increasing dealer service revenue.
- Content Personalisation: Delivers personal content intelligently for a driver’s commute.Vehicle Analytics: Provides insight into vehicle usage/quality issues for an individual or group of users.
- Specific capabilities of the new platform include:
- Connectivity: Facilitating the delivery of data communication services on mobile and other communications networks
- Analytics: Pre-built analytics models covering common industry-wide scenarios such as warranty analytics and fault detection leveraging real-time machine data
- Device Management: Enabling remote management and over-the-air updating of devices
- Application Management: Accelerating and simplifying the development of solutions, providing common horizontal solution components, prebuilt accelerators and scenarios to be re-used across industries & segments
- Overall Managed Services: Providing services like delivery, analytics, over-the-air updates, device management and other professional services
Ignite is available in the US market with plans to extend to other markets such as Europe and Asia Pacific this year.
