New-Tech Europe Magazine | March 2018

the navigation or radio as it is today. Tomorrow cars are going to have Digital cockpits, based on curved screens designed using OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) technology, And much much more screens. Harman and Samsung used the most recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to unveil a digital cockpit platform, which combines 5G technology and an IoT platform, across a suite of OLED and QLED screens. QLED stands for Quantum dot Light-Emitting Diode. The digital cockpit comprises three customisable displays and knobs. The 12.3-inch OLED driver display provides information such as speed and RPM. Infotainment is handled by a 28-inch QLED central information display. Positioned below this central screen is another curved OLED display that enables control of other features such as the air-con. The three knobs may be set to functions most frequently used by the driver, such as clock, temperature and volume. There is going to be a screen for the driver and screens for passengers in the front and the back. All of them will be managed by the car infotainment system and will show data and application which fit to each different user. The driver data will not be the same as a passenger data, while for a driver we want to show relevant data that fits his current driving scenario, for the passengers we want to enable more data and functionality that allow him not only see info from the augmented reality view but to also interact with it. “Our current challenge is to build an augmented reality platform – such that will enable different car makers to develop and their own augmented reality applications which will fit the user experience they vision. We want to enable them, once the platform is integrated with their car, to be able to easily change the logic and the design of the application so car makers could

Picture 4: Tomorrow cars are going to have Digital cockpits, based on curved screens designed using OLED technology, And much much more screens Credit: Daimler AG

quickly and easily try different type of application and interactions and rapidly improve and update those. Our team will be responsible for the heavy lifting on the technology side – computer Generation Y Akiva, director of computer vision in Harman is only 33 years old. He is 5 years in Harman after working before for the iOnRoad startup that was acquired by Harman in 2013. “In the past, cars were all about hardware, but in recent years there is a strong shift towards software and more and more car makers and tier-1 companies understand it”, he says. At HARMAN Israel, he teams who are working on the AR application is a mixture of young, software oriented engineers that know well the mobile experience and push the system and user experience we have in the car to become as intuitive as using a smartphone. “We mix them with the older more traditional developers, some algorithms engineer with years of experience or automotive expert who are working in this market for years and are getting the best of both worlds. Daimler team working with us is only young guys who lead the development of this feature – Daimler understands that this young team are the users of the future and they give them the

opportunity to shape the vision for those future drivers. Also in Harman and Samsung we are always looking for this combination – young people to bring the passion and the energy, they work fast and want to try different things. They are not afraid to think big and are able to quickly implement prove of concept with open to tools to test their idea and and to quickly and rapidly change those. Adding to them the more experienced and wise developer who have seen a lot and who can already see far ahead from the beginning create a powerful and capable team that can solve complex problems quick and with high-quality”. vision, calibration, position estimation with complex algorithms while the developers could easily leverage those and build upon them their applications for the car”.

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