High-end 32-bit processors, 3D graphics, wireless connectivity, high-accuracy GPS radios, dead reckoning, and large amounts of locally stored data – today’s portable and in-dash navigation systems are increasingly complex and demanding on hardware resources.

As a result, developers face a number of challenges:

• New demands around 3D for navigation functionality
  
• Integration with off-board services: traffic, road conditions, points of interest, diagnostic information
  
• Device connectivity (portable devices, Bluetooth phones, portable navigation devices, etc.)
  
• Failure-prone hard disks (typically needed for map data)
  
• Off-board internet services like Google maps or Yahoo local, or OEM-provided internet content
  
• Integration with speech technologies for destination entry and hands-free communication
  
• Connectivity via multiple buses, etc.
  

Besides offering the ultra-reliable QNX® Neutrino® RTOS, QNX Software Systems provides an array of innovative technologies for the in-car computing market. These include a highly customizable framework for managing power consumption, multi-layered 3D graphics, and instant-on technology for ultra-fast response. In addition, we offer the QNX Momentics® development suite, a highly integrated toolset for accelerating the entire development cycle - from board bring-up to performance optimization.

QNX case studies

Navigation ecosystem

• Centrality
  
• Horizon Navigation
  
• Navigon
  
• NAVTEQ
  
• Navman
  
• Sirf Technology
  
• Tele Atlas
  
• Trimble
  
• 3Soft
  
• and more