Opportunity in in-vehicle infotainment systems
- CREST and Clarion Malaysia desire to get nearby software program companies into US$14bil market
- Partnering with key era players to advantage get entry to to clients
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THE four-wheel pressure from Clarion Malaysia, which wouldn’t look out of area in a Bond movie, almost stole the display at the Globally Connected Car Solutions symposium on Nov 5. It felt like a complete blast from its out-of-this-global device could blow out every window on the Petronas Twin Towers, the excellent mean music machine became intended to demonstrate how vehicle stereos are evolving to turn out to be ‘in-automobile infotainment systems’ or IVI structures.
Anyone stuck in Monday’s rain-brought on site visitors gridlock in Kuala Lumpur could actually have welcomed the relief the sort of device is touted to provide – navigation, telematics, telecommunications, Internet connectivity and sure, your favorite music streamed from the cloud.
But why would the CREST (Collaborative Research in Engineering, Science and Technology) and Clarion Malaysia prepare such an occasion. And why might a trio of presidency organizations – the Malaysian Industrial Development Agency (Mida), the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) and Malaysian Debt Ventures (MDV) – support such an initiative?
Three words, two motives: Opportunity and geographic location.
It appears that IVI is an rising new market and even greater substantially, there aren't any clear leaders but. And Asia is domestic to the main car-makers of the arena and itself is a big market.
The factor approximately an rising market with no clean chief turned into made through Mida chief government officer Datuk Noharuddin Nordin (percent, center) in his speech: “There is a growing market for related vehicles [estimated at US$14.4 billion by 2016 or RM44.1 billion]. And, in contrast to the clever telephone, pill and pocket book markets, there is no clean market chief for linked car solutions, this means that this is a notable possibility to set up marketplace leadership.”
This is why CREST co-prepared the occasion with Clarion Malaysia to introduce some of the latter’s worldwide generation partners to Malaysian companies. CREST leader government officer Jaffri Ibrahim (percent above, right) is hoping to tap into the bank of MSC (Multimedia Super Corridor) software program companies and get them involved to associate with these leading gamers inside the area to quicken their marketplace access to key customers.
Partnering with those leading gamers is vital because, “they already have market get right of entry to to the main car manufacturers and their generation structures have been well-known by way of some of the main car-makers.
“For our software businesses to get to that identical level will just take a totally long term, so it's far high-quality to partner with those players who're now searching out the right agencies to paintings with to create give up answers for the market,” says Jaffri.
And as Bill Duvall, CEO of Prodigium Mobile -- one among Clarion Malaysia’s global era companions -- tells Digital News Asia (DNA), “The market is in Asia. Who higher than neighborhood organizations to build answers for the local marketplace?”
Indeed, Prodigium Mobile is presently shifting its operations from the UK to Malaysia to be in the direction of its key patron Clarion Malaysia and to the markets Clarion Malaysia serves.
Clarion Malaysia, a Malaysian-Japanese joint undertaking with a forty-year history in the northern country of Penang, isn't always just a production base however also manages one of the maximum dynamic centers for research and improvement within the IVI industry in Asia. It has additionally already unveiled the Clarion Mirage, an Android-powered IVI unit which turned into co-developed, created and manufactured in Malaysia.
Add to this the reality that 5 of the pinnacle automobile manufacturers in the international are based in Asia – Toyota, Hyundai-Kia, Honda, Suzuki and Nissan – with General Motors and Volkwagen additionally invested heavily in the location, means access to key quit clients is in our backyard.
And in addition upload to the fact that purchasers from China, Japan and India sold 23 million vehicles in 2011, and the marketplace possibility becomes apparent – this isn't even factoring in Malaysian vehicle-makers Proton and Perodua and the almost 500,000 vehicles they produce yearly.
Clarion Malaysia coping with director t.k. Tan (p.c above, left) says that “linked motors” is the catchphrase for the global IVI industry. “Just as handphones have become smartphones, car stereos have become IVI structures,” he notes.
The link to handphones is not unintentional. Tan says the demand for IVI systems is pushed via connectivity and protection. “When you force a automobile, it's miles hazardous to perform a smartphone or pill. But then humans force they want to live linked, entertained and informed.”
Apparently IVI is the solution, replacing the function traditionally crammed by way of the trusty automobile radio.
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