In recent years, China’s total car sales and private car purchases have increased year by year. With the continuous improvement of people's living standards, cars have gradually entered the family and become a necessities of life. Some experts estimate that the growth rate of automobiles will have a more substantial upward trend in the next few years. As a GPS system for automotive electronic products, its huge market potential and immeasurable development prospects have enabled major home appliance giants to see business opportunities and have turned their attention to the automotive industry.

Although the navigation industry is currently faced with various problems, compared with other countries in the world, China is far ahead of the world in terms of both the absolute value and the growth rate of car sales. Therefore, China's car navigation market will certainly flourish in the future. However, the key is where is the road to development? The following author analyzes the seven development trends for the future.

One-button navigation development

Wikipedia's description of one-touch navigation is: "Connecting the artificial seat, the voice sends the purpose of wanting to go, confirms the destination is correct, sends the destination address code to the user terminal, and automatically generates the navigation route." There is a portable navigation factory implementation, based on GPRS technology, the address code is sent to the customer's navigator.

It is not difficult to see that one-touch navigation needs to be communicated through artificial seats, and there are often some inconsistencies in communication. Although the address entered manually is solved, the communication time is long and the seat labor cost is relatively high. In order to maintain the operating costs of the call center, users are charged more than 100 yuan per month.

Voice-activated navigation development

In order to achieve differentiation, some navigation factories add a voice recognition software module inside the machine and use voice commands to control the car without looking at the car screen. However, there are problems with this technology: if there is no back-end database system, the voice analysis capabilities may often only identify a fixed number of dozens of commands. Moreover, voice-activated navigation has requirements for accents and environmental background sounds. However, if the voice recognition is done by the back-end cloud computer after the car network is connected, the command recognition rate will be greatly improved.

Car networking applications

Car networking means that the navigator is connected to 3G internet devices or WIFI to change the status of the car's stand-alone machine, so as to obtain information and communicate online. The current 3G wireless communication tariff is a bottleneck restricting development: At present, the service vehicle of the Internet of Vehicles must go through the operation background. The existing problems are: first, the current operation background provides services without rigid demands; second, Chinese users are not used to charging. When the service costs money, the users would rather not use it. Third, the current background projects are very poorly experienced.

Mobile phone synchronization application

MirrorLink means that the mobile phone and the navigation car machine use software to achieve wireless synchronization and realize the mirror control of the mobile phone and the car. The starting point of mobile phone synchronization is to weaken the function of the navigation car machine and enlarge the dominance of the mobile phone. The goal is, first, to reduce the number of vehicle repairs and scraps; second, to share the flow rates of mobile phones. However, this is precisely the need to slash foot and eliminate the car's personality. At present, due to the backwardness of the WINCE system and the poor performance of the Internet of Vehicles, the navigation vehicle has apparently been exposed.

Car navigation to high-end development

In fact, in the navigation market, in addition to portable navigation, there are more professional car navigation. If subdivided, car navigation can be divided into front loading navigation and rear loading navigation. The former generally refers to the original navigation, while the latter is the car navigation that consumers choose to install, such as 4S shop or auto boutique.

Compared with portable navigation, car navigation has advantages that cannot be matched by the former and mobile navigation software. "Now the car navigation is not just a single navigation function, and it can even be said that navigation is just one of the functions." Mr. Lin, a service worker at Guangzhou Automobile Honda 4S Store, told the author that he used a mobile navigation software or went to Jingdong and Taobao to buy it. Navigation, in fact, in the navigation market is only part of the low-end products, Baidu, Gaode navigation free, and not to mention impact on the entire navigation market.

It is understood that compared to the previous generation of relatively simple navigation functions and the first-generation car navigation with functions such as audio and video, and radio, today's car navigation has begun to develop in the direction of multi-function and high-end. Such as wireless Bluetooth transmission, SD card, car DVD, voice control, etc., are already very popular features. At the 9th International Automobile Aftermarket Brand Exhibition held in Guangzhou in September, major car navigation companies have already developed car navigation to the direction of smart and car networking. With the continuous increase in functions such as non-disc mass storage, large resolution, and multi-touch, it has become a common trend for major brands to rely on the Internet.

Car navigation touch screen favored

For car GPS navigators, the use of touch has become a standard, but due to the driving environment and outdoor light and high temperature, the touch sensitivity of resistive or capacitive car navigators often suffers from interference. So what's the trend of future car navigation touch screen technology? A: In-vehicle infrared touch screen products, this product uses cutting-edge infrared technology, bringing new touch experience, causing the media industry and consumers to pay close attention.

Some people point out that infrared technology is the mainstream development trend of car navigation touch screen products. The author can not help but think, when will this mainstream date be? The development of touch screen technology has been widely used in the market such as resistive touch screens, capacitive touch screens, and infrared touch screens. The resistance screen will drift for a long time and it will be very laborious to correct it. When the hand has no static electricity, the capacitive screen cannot be controlled. However, these phenomena have no pressure on the infrared screen.

First, the infrared touch screen has a high light transmittance: Compared with a display with a capacitive and resistive touch screen, the screen is fuller in color, the contrast is better, and the user's visual comfort is improved; secondly, the infrared touch screen does not require touch pressure and wears gloves. Can also operate freely. Multi-touch up to 10 points, no matter what object you can touch. The daytime visibility in sunlight is high, power consumption is low, and the price is moderate. Compared to capacitive screens and resistive screens, the cost performance is very high. Thirdly, the working and storage temperature meets all kinds of severe working conditions in the vehicle. In extremely cold and hot areas, users can control the flow of clouds and draw pictures with their hearts. Moreover, the response is high-speed and accurate, and the on-site experience is indeed the same, feeling smooth and rapid, compared to the resistance. Screen and capacitive screen have a winning posture. Fourth, infrared touch screen anti-scale and waterproof. Dirt less than 0.6mm is working properly. Even if the surface of this infrared screen is sprinkled with water, you can simply wipe it and it will work normally. It will not be affected at all.

In summary, the cost performance of infrared screens is very high, and all functions are very colorful. It is inevitable that mainstream products will become the future. However, it is not yet clear how long the products will become mature and popular.