Harman Automotive has launched two new products aimed at addressing the needs of the growing software and electronics market in the automotive industry: Ready CQuence Loop and Ready Link Marketplace. Both are designed to help car manufacturers, suppliers, and developers accelerate development cycles for automotive software, enhance in-vehicle products, and open up new revenue sources. Ready CQuence Loop is a software-defined-vehicle (SDV) toolchain that increases developer productivity by enabling faster deployment of new vehicle features through a virtual environment.
This tool provides automotive manufacturers with a central entry point for developing and testing vehicle software stacks while managing the infrastructure. Harman states that development and validation costs will be lower with Ready CQuence Loop, and it provides APIs that enable third-party providers to extend Ready CQuence Loop with their toolchain-related workloads. Today’s tools for developing and testing automotive software are not aligned with modern software development practices,” said Daniel Lueddecke, senior director and Ready CQuence Loop product lead at Harman.
Ready Link Marketplace is a new in-vehicle experience with cloud services.
New automotive software tools launched
It is a unified digital trading platform that connects automakers, developers, and users.
It enables car manufacturers to offer tailor-made apps, services, and vehicle features. Harman claims this platform can provide industry-leading content with simplified integration and control while also opening up monetization possibilities. Heiko Huettel, vice president of Software Products at Harman, stated, “Software is changing everything about the way vehicles are built and experienced.
With Ready CQuence Loop and Ready Link Marketplace, we want to make this change meaningful for developers, automakers, and consumers by focusing on the essentials – making it easier to deliver and receive better in-vehicle experiences for everyone.”
More than 50 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with Harman audio and connected car systems. The company’s software services power billions of mobile devices and systems that are connected, integrated, and secure across all platforms, from work and home to car and mobile. Harman, which has a workforce of approximately 30,000 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co.
in 2017.
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