1. Connected Car related
applications and
technologies, Activity
Recognition API in Android
Jacek Serafiński
jacek@zylia.pl
http://zylia.pl
GDG Dublin

2. About me …
 M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science (2007), undergraduate in
Finance and Banking(2008)
 Co-owner of Zylia (Poznan, Poland) – management buyout
(10.2012) of Telcordia Poland – a Polish research centre of
Telcordia Technologies Inc.
 Co-founder of NextDayLab (Poznan, Poland) – est. 06.2012
 Working in Carmesh Project (secondment in UCD from 10.2012)
 Connected Car
 Automotive Service Platform
 Mobile/Car Integration

3. Carmesh
 Carmesh is an EU FP7 project which focuses on the delivery of advanced
automotive services to the Connected Car
 Secondment base researcher exchange
 The Carmesh vision is one in which there is seamless integration of the digital life
into the automotive context
 Itegration with social networks
 Advanced vehicular services (navigation, car data-based services, traffic awareness)
 Novel UIs for cars
 Partners
 UCD (University College Dublin), Ireland
 Sean Murphy, Hamid Nafaa, Sebastian Robitzsch
 Zylia, Poland
 Jacek Serafinski, Piotr Szczechowiak, Tomasz Żernicki

4. Evolution of automotive technologies
 Car provides a HTML5 based user interface with typical automotive
controls
 Applications run on the phone and connect wirelessly to the car
 Designed with driver non-distraction in mind.
 Different manufacturers partnering with mobile app developers –
customized IVI solutions
 Mobile-car integration
 Basic integration – contacts, call support, no data connection
 Single high-quality mobile app (Mercedes)
 Open SDK for deveopers (Ford)
 iOS in the car (mirror phone screen in OBU UI)

5. Innovative technologies for automotive
 Different technologies integrating mobile app development with in-
car systems
 Ford Applink
 Tizen IVI
 Supporting technologies
 Activity Recognition API
 http://blog.carmesh.eu/author/jackpotek/
 http://www.youtube.com/user/jackpotek (shared)

6. Ford Applink
 Mobile phone connected to Car through Microsoft Sync
 Concept
 OBU as UI
 Application on mobile phone
 Mobile phone screen locked
 Applications precertified by Ford (non-distraction issue)
 Ford provides SDK, samples and emulator
 http://blog.carmesh.eu/2013/04/26/first-impression-with-ford-applink-emulator/
 http://blog.carmesh.eu/2013/04/30/videos-demonstrations-of-ford-applink-emulator/

7. Tizen IVI
 Linux-based OS customized for in-vehicle use
 Supported by Samsung and Intel
 Open platform
 Tizen SDK 2.1 available at http://tizen.org
 Ford pushing Applink (SmartDeviceLink) to become their
reference technology for connectivity
 Eclipse-based IDE
 HTML5 frontend
 Standardized mobile platform for the car
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xtCiKwu2qY
 Reference platform for Automotive Grade Linux
 Supports touchscreen, ODBII, open for new in-vehicle protocols

8. Activity Recognition API (1)
 Announced at Google IO 2013 Keynote
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pmPa_KxsAM#t=841s
 Part of Google Play Services (Location APIs)
 Layer built and managed by Google on top of Android
 Google use these API to build their own apps (Google Maps, Google
Now)
 Concept
 Detect if we are walking, driving or riding a bike
 Use phone sensors, accelerometers and machine learning classifier
 Do not use GPS or Wifi (low battery consumption)

9. Activity Recognition API (2)
http://developer.android.com/training/location/activity-recognition.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/DetectedActivity.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/ActivityRecognitionClient.ht

10. Next steps
 Integrating carmesh appications with Voice API to provide speech
interface to control apps
 SmartDeviceLink (Ford)
 Further use case integration with social services (Google
Calendar, Facebook, Google+)
 Applications
 Google now for Auto (Google calendar, Google maps,
 Routing with superimposed on liked brands/places (pulled from Facebook)
 Data logger in Tizen (OBDII, RPi)
 Give a Demo at Automotive Linux summit in Edinburgh, UK 11.2013

11. http://carmesh.eu
http://blog.carmesh.eu/
jacek@zylia.pl
http://about.me/jacekserafinski
http://linkedin.com/in/serafinski
THANKS!