The meaning of Sensus

Absrtact: In mainstream cars, Volvo, though not a household name, is often involved in new technologies in the field of technology. Volvo, for example, was listed in the first batch of partners when Apple launched its CarPlay-car interconnect and Google launched its Android Auto. No

In mainstream cars, Volvo, though not a household name, often participates in new technologies in the field of technology. Volvo, for example, was listed in the first batch of partners when Apple launched its CarPlay-car interconnect and Google launched its Android Auto.

But yesterday Volvo in China launched its own car intelligent system sensus, more complete description as "Intelligent vehicle Interactive system", which for its own and with Google, Apple's cooperation has what significance?

The meaning of Sensus

At present, Sensus provides 5 aspects, namely: interconnection (Connect), Services (service), entertainment (entertain), navigation (Navi), control. If this order is disrupted, the first four are basically related to the Internet, and then finally the basic properties of the traditional car.

This shows that, such as Volvo, such as the company's access to Google, Apple mobile end of the introduction of Internet services, but also in the establishment of their own car internet ecology. In this way, will Carpay and Android Auto, a mobile internet service that moves from mobile phones, become a stopgap?

Content new ideas less initial stage

However, from the current content of services, the content of Volvo is not a lot of new ideas, such as:

The media only joined the Dragonfly FM and Watercress Radio, the WiFi hotspot in the car is a practical function; navigation support to the PC query information sent to the car, through cooperation with Baidu to achieve local search, voice control text reading and so on.

Control is a lot of car companies will usually join some of the functions, such as: Remote preheating, precooling, condition inspection, remote switch lock, vehicle positioning, driver log, road rescue and so on.

It should be said that the current Volvo through the content provided by Sensus to complete the basic Internet access, but also relatively rudimentary, there are some uses are difficult to widely spread, such as its proposed parking paid applications, so that the car system and the car park system docking, to reach the destination before the designated parking and prepaid parking fees, This first needs the parking system informatization. In addition, Volvo proposed a more alternative idea, "let the Car Collection courier", I do not know what a good way to achieve this.

Internet Platform Play

Volvo has to do its own business in the car ecosystem, the way is also the Internet to play, and all kinds of upstream chips and Internet service providers.

According to Volvo's partners have Ericsson, Baidu, Unicom, gold, watercress, bhattal, in addition to Bo Tai is a traditional car service front-mounted services provider, the other several are all Internet and telecommunications service providers.

Unicom is to solve the problem of the mobile terminal network, Ericsson is to help them fix a set of cloud services, so that people, cars, roads, service providers and other data synchronization and docking; Gold, watercress, Baidu is to solve the navigation, music entertainment and Internet content access problems.

Which cars are available?

It is understood that the Sensus system has been used in June to 2015 s60l, and will be used after the following models are: 2015 XC60, V60 and S60 r-design and V40.

The problem of intelligent car enterprise

Before about car intelligence, often talk about Ford, BMW and other companies are more, these companies are already in and Microsoft such technology companies.

From my understanding, now Volvo's layout with three technology brands in the realization, is: Intelligent interactive system, which is just launched Sensus, there is also a dynamic optimization direction of the development of DRIVE-E and active security IntelliSafe.

Sensus at present is to complete some of the basic experience of the Internet in the car, the future of the request or in the user's large data utilization and cloud services to enhance the development.

But there are unavoidable problems with the car companies, although has its own IT department, but the entire cloud service information platform often cooperates with the third party, is difficult to achieve like Tesla this internet and the automobile experience has the unified brand characteristic, simultaneously develops, this is the problem which all car enterprise faces.