What actually are Vehicle Infotainment Systems?

For all those people who aren’t aware of this term, allow me to elaborate.

Basically, In-Car infotainment systems can be referred to as any source that fulfills the requirement of entertainment on-the-go.

For all those drivers out there who are out for a drive and manage to use rear-view camera for reversing their car, or the navigation system to guide themselves through heavy traffic, listen to their favorite music through the very popular car audio system which allows you to play via Bluetooth or an auxiliary jack and keep the people seated at the back well-entertained with movies on the entertainment video system, then you’re pretty much familiar with the new concept of this century of infotainment systems.

The types of systems we’re talking about aren’t any ordinary systems. They are smart systems that allow you to be at ease to entertain you through various luxury items throughout your day. These include the high-class GPS navigation systems, rear and side view camera systems, and audio systems for entertaining purposes.

In today’s generation, technology is at its peak. New GPS Navigation systems include voice recognition, which helps you find your destination while driving easily.

Intel, a very popular computer chip making brand, has recently launched a PC system for your car which includes 4x4 GPS navigation which features the ”Aimi System”,  that allows you to have door to door, voice and visual navigation instructions, and moving map features available for off-road trips.

All this new technology melts us down to have the urge of everything to be on-the-go, which leads to multi-tasking all the time. So for our comfort, many designs have come to our acknowledgement, which can include the smart idea for an upgrade to our old decks, what we call the Ca-Fi systems.

The Ca-Fi system is an Android based car infotainment system. Combining Android with vehicles is the future of car infotainment systems. It features GUI, Navigation, Free-Hand-Calling and G3 internet all at one touch.

Next up, we have a very useful application known as OBD2 that allows you to check the status of your engine on-the-go from your smartphone. Via Bluetooth connection, built in internet helps you connect to Facebook, Twitter or Skype anywhere, anytime.

Another very interesting kind of infotainment system for your car is the night vision Backup Camera, which helps in guiding you through to reverse or even move forward in the dark.

All of this can be very distracting for a driver, which in today’s day has led to a higher rate of accidents all around the world, and for this a new kind of infotainment has been launched which is known as the Gesture Recognition, using a Touch-less Sensor.

This helps to save time, energy and simply makes life a whole lot easier for us to handle. The touch-less sensor responds to the simple hand gestures, which allow you to open the door or close your bonnet on the response of an up, down or sideways movement of your hand.

Other sensors include the weather sensor, light sensor and parking sensor, which also make things a lot easier for us.

The weather sensor is smart enough to know when the weather requires the usage of turning your wipers on if they sense rain drops on your wind shield.

The parking sensors aid you in parking your car with ease without touching your car. It beeps when you are near to something to alert you not to go any further to reduce any chances of crashing into something.

The light sensors in your car notify you to turn your lights on when needed. 

Built in screens in modern SUV’s which tell you the engine status suspension status, tyre pressure, ride height, terrain selection for off-road or on-road use. 

More systems include automatically adjusting seats, which adjust themselves according to your posture in which you are comfortable, and temperature control, which maintains temperature which is most comfortable inside.

Now that’s Car Infotainment!