SEOUL, Sept 25 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s biggest automaker, Hyundai Motor, and its affiliate Kia Corp., joined hands with the country’s tech giant, Samsung Electronics, to strengthen the integration between software-defined vehicles (SDVs) and smartphones.
The signing ceremony for strategic technology partnership between the companies was held today, as Hyundai and Kia were working on their next-generation infotainment system, in collaboration with Hyundai’s global software centre 42dot, Hyundai said in a statement.
Hyundai and Kia planned to develop technology to connect SDVs and smartphones by using Samsung’s SmartThings internet of things (IoT) platform, the automaker noted.
Under the connectivity, the companies will introduce a global vehicle location tracking service, based on Samsung’s SmartThings Find platform, which is a crowd-sourced network of hundreds of millions of Samsung Galaxy devices using Bluetooth Low Energy technology.
Through the location service, drivers can more easily track down their cars in the event of them being lost or stolen, Samsung said in a separate statement.
Vehicles can be added to the connected SmartThings ecosystem, allowing drivers to return home with optimised conditions by controlling Samsung’s air conditioners and other connected devices while driving home.
Samsung said, it will collaborate with the automakers to provide various artificial intelligence (AI)-based services, by expanding the use of SmartThings to in-vehicle health monitoring through cameras and Galaxy devices, as well as, integration with smart apartment solutions.– NNN-YONHAP
