Harman has announced Ready Aware, its new vehicle-to-cloud software service that provides contextual in-vehicle alerts designed to enhance a driver’s situational awareness at intersections and around various road hazards. The Samsung subsidiary confirmed that the solutions is available now to OEMs in North America, Europe, and India for fitment in both new and existing connected vehicles.
Ready Aware supports more than 15 use cases, alerting drivers to potential hazards such as objects on the road and stationary vehicles. Harman said that, through this capability, Ready Aware is one of the first vehicle-to-network (V2N) production-ready solutions to deliver latency-sensitive ‘hard braking ahead’ alerts that warn drivers of sudden, impending congestion. With this critical and contextual information, the software is ultimately looking to enhance driver awareness beyond their line of sight, or the vehicle’s onboard sensors, to help them make safer driving decisions.
The solution works through a cloud-based analytics engine that leverages digital twins and machine learning to better understand a vehicle’s environment in near real-time and deliver more accurate insights. This creates, and associates, a confidence score for each individual road hazard that can improve overall precision and reduce false positives, providing data quality assurance and an improved driver experience.
Harman highlighted that, for its OEM customers, Ready Aware is an easily deployable, scalable and cost-effective solution that offers several integration options. A hardware agnostic solution, it operates over both 4G and 5G, on Android or Linux, and is designed to be future-proof, supporting additional latency-sensitive use cases between vehicles and pedestrians for future upgrades over the cloud. Ready Aware can be deployed to existing connected vehicles using OTA updates, and fitted more directly in newer production vehicles.
Ready Aware also integrates with other products in Harman’s range of ‘Ready’ technologies to enable seamless, enhanced, consumer experiences. For example, it comes pre-integrated with the Harman Ready Connect 5G Telematics Control Unit (TCU) and is compatible with Harman Ready Vision, offering immersive audio and visual cues that deliver the right information at the right time directly in the driver’s line of sight. Ready Aware can also be deployed through the Ready Link Marketplace, Harman’s digital commerce platform for the deployment of apps, vehicle features and in-vehicle experiences that allow automakers to unlock recurring revenue opportunities.
