INFOTAIN SYSTEM FOR AUTOMOBILE BASED ON BEAGLEBONE BLACK

Jagdish T R, Ramachandra A C

Abstract: Today’s Automobiles require multiple advance features with a single touch, therefore there is a need for infotainment system which handles both Information and Entertainment. This project reports an Infotain system for Automobile based on Beaglebone Black development board by Embedding Android Operating System and Android applications on to the device. This infotain system is capable to play multimedia files, provide information related to the Navigation, and create access to the Internet. The main aim of the project is to build and customize the operating system according to the system requirement and developing application softwares for the Infotainment sytem. This process of refining and building operating systems and applications for a brand new boards is called Board Bring Up. Above reported Infotain system can be upgraded with different hardware modules for better features in Navigation and Communication, since the board is equipped with more communication interfacing ports. An voice guiding feature for driver using the map details, a Message popup feature which delivers the message to an control / monitoring center would be added in future.

Keywords: Infotain, Beaglebone Black, Navigation, and Sitara.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0305152