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Abstract- In this following topic we come across the infotainment part of a car. Which includes information and entertainment part.It is a collection of software and hardware system related to Audio, Video, Wireless Fidelity, Bluethooth, Universal serial bus(USB),GPS(Global Positioning System).
I. INTRODUCTION
Initially few decades ago the cars are provided with the audio system later traffic information providing system was being launched in 1998 which is the information providing system of a car Because of advancements in smart Phones and Tablets the cars are equipped with these which provided easier access for information and entertainment it allows for compatable, customizable voice activated, touch screen enabled system this generally functions on Andriod operating system ,Apple IOS,Windows etc.
INFOTAINMENT NETWORK SYSTEM
It contains many hardware components each are connected with CAN architecture or Bluethooth it has a Head unit which contains one or more C.P.U’s of which one is dedicated for Real time applications.
C. PHONE services: Attending calls and for making calls.
IV. ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES:
A)Audio:
This comes under media option of display panel we can have Radio, we can connect Ipod or USB play media or we can have SD card connectivity audio may be in mp3 or wma format.
It should be noticed that Steering wheel can be provided with some control buttons like mute,reduce volume etc for driver convinence
RDS(Radio Data System) Feature:
This provides announcement about The traffic information so it interrupts the current audio service and plays the traffic announcement collected from the radio station this comes under the Radio Option from the panel
B)Video:
Television :
Over the media option when we select the T.V option T.V.Antenna gets activated and we can make the required channel selection using a remote control .
DVD player: The other way in which we can play MP4or AVI content is through DVD
Bluethooth/USB/SD card:
We can have video played through bluethooth or USB or SD card.
Rear seat entertainment:
We can have tablet installed at the rear part of the front seat which allows for entertainment for the backside people a headphone is provided separately which allows for their own accessing of the required multimedia or an application of their choice we can have a remote provided so this thing allows for providing entertainment even to the people in the rear V)Phone Services:
C)Phone:
over the display panel we may have a phone option which is used for attending the calls instead of the direct attending of calls using the phone when the Bluethooth is turned on all the contacts from the phone gets copied in to the infotainment system downloading time varies between type of phone.
Incoming calls:
So the incoming calls are displayed on the system within band tone of mobile or through by a default tone automatically the radio and other players get muted.
Outgoing calls: So to dial a call we need to go for dialing option and select the appropriate contact or we can go for voice recognition to activate dialing a contact. Over the Steering wheel we can have control features for attending or rejecting call
Message Alert: we can enable or disable the S.M.S service there is a feature of text to speech conversion.
For attending the calls we may have bluethooth receiver between the infotainment and the user or the reciever within the infotainment system.
III.INFORMATION SERVICES: The information providing system includes navigation System, Travel guidance, rear parking assisting system, fuel information, Air conditioning details and also displays certain alerts regarding fluid level in the vehicle and regarding vehicle condition.
Rear parking assist system:
We have a radar at the back of the car so if there is an obstacle it is informed