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From Road to Satellite: The Next Era of Vehicle Communication

Discover how Ready Connect allows OEMs to offer safe, secure and reliable connected experiences anywhere and anytime.

Connected mobility is here. Listen in as Dr. Toshi Nakanishi, Director of Product Management, shares how HARMAN Automotive is boosting the bar from 4G to 5G, Wi-Fi to Bluetooth and V2X to satellite with Ready Connect. This is one Always Ready episode not to miss. Host Oisin Lunny uncovers the biggest challenges and opportunities as well as asks Toshi to explain the latest acronyms like MIMO and GNSS.

Key Takeaways:

[2:08] Toshi provides an overview of the Ready Connect product and its unique capabilities.

[2:57] Toshi outlines key development challenges and how HARMAN Automotive addressed.

[5:00] Toshi describes the product’s upgradability and scalability.

[5:47] A discussion of partners involved such as Qualcomm.

[7:01] Toshi explains relevant acronyms like MIMO and GNSS.

[8:00] An overview of new partnerships this year.

[9:23] Toshi shares his thoughts on future trends in connected mobility.

[10:17] Toshi provides an update on where HARMAN Automotive is investing in research, development and innovation.

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TCU: Telematics Control Unit – an embedded system on board a vehicle that wirelessly connects the vehicle to cloud services.

MIMO: Multiple-Input Multiple-Output – radio antenna technology which deploys multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver to increase the quality, throughput, and capacity of the radio link.

GNSS: Global Navigation Satellite System – a collection of satellites that provide location data and other information to devices on the ground.

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We have great engineering experience in the automotive area as well as in the consumer area where Samsung has cutting-edge technology.

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We support both 4G and 5G in the same form factor of the telematics control unit, and that will enable OEMs to prepare for the future without reinventing the TCU.

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Ready Connect

Designed to maximize product longevity, versatility and functional capability by enabling the greatest degree of hardware upgradability and software scalability than any other product of its kind.

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