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7 Infotainment: Seamless Mobile Integration
In the last decade the world has become full of mobile communications and media devices – from cellular phones to MP3 players and portable GPS systems – but new cars have often lagged behind in connecting with them successfully. Seamless Mobile Integration (or SMI) is a new generic interface system that is developed by one of Faurecia’s partners, and that aims to solve the problem by seamlessly integrating such devices into the vehicle’s electronics and associated operating surface using next-generation Bluetoothstyle shortwave radio technology. In the Premium Attitude concept the SMI application
allows the driver to operate any mobile device onboard via the pop-up controller integrated in the center console, for optimum occupant reach, and displays content on the car’s dashboard screens. Instead of being confronted by many different operating
surfaces the driver has everything under control and in good view. The vehicle’s screen can show music titles from the portable media player with song selection Premium Attitude: the ten key innovations in detail controlled by voice activation or steering wheelmounted buttons. Information from portable GPS systems can be displayed on the larger format vehicle screen and the audio system gives clear directions. Thirdly, addresses and appointments from a smart phone can be selected and displayed using the car’s main touch-screen. All operations become less fiddly, more intuitive and crucially, safer – allowing the
driver to remain concentrated on the road.
The SMI system has been futureproofed to cope with mobile devices we do not yet know of, and in this incarnation also manages via high luminescence screens, the three main driving modes of the Premium Attitude concept: City, Sport and Cruise.