Discusses the work QNX has already done in Home Automation and the IoT space.

1. The Role of Connectivity and HMIs in
Home Automation
Slides by Chris Ault, Product Management QNX
Presented by Larry McDonough, Principal Evangelist BlackBerry
December 2nd, 2013

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Trends in Home Automation and White Goods
• Graphics: Enhanced, compelling graphical user interfaces: the Smartphone age meets general devices
– Touch, swipe, multiple graphics technologies
• Connectivity: smartphone, home network, cloud, software updates
• Applications: OEM and aftermarket add-ons
• Power savings, and fast boot
– Off is “off”, and “on” must be “now!”
What does this solution look like?

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What is driving user interfaces?
• Consumer market impacting all traditional
embedded markets
– Consumer, medical, auto, industrial …
• Younger generation creates strong culture of
mobile device integration
• Innovative and booming application market
• OEMs wanting to focus on differentiation and
accelerate their innovation curve with fewer
resources
– Don’t want to do all of the non value-add
integration

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Requirement: HMI flexibility
Unique QNX Composition Manager
supports a single unified interface
from multiple technologies.
– Android
– HTML5
– OpenGL
– Qt
– Adobe

5. Reference HMI examples
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HMI system architecture & application framework
Home screen
Reference apps
Browser app
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Applications
JavaScript application
frameworks
HTML5 engine technology
SQL plug-in
PPS plug-in
UI core plug-in
UI core
PPS
SQL
Media
Other HMI frameworks
Phone
Radio
Nav
Speech
Software update
Mobile Device Gateway
Operating System
UI core API

7. Connected, Graphical Devices
Mining Control
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8. PSA
Bentley
QNX
Automotive Market
Deployed by over 40 OEMs in 250 vehicle
platforms and over 30,000,000 vehicles
throughout North America, Europe, and Asia

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10. How Connected are Whitegoods?
Samsung - Apps on Your Fridge
Upgrade your life with a Wi-Fi enabled
refrigerator featuring a brilliant 8”
touchscreen that puts access to apps at
your fingertips. Check the morning
weather, browse the web for recipes,
explore your social networks or leave
notes for your family—all from the
refrigerator door.

11. Dalian Eastern Display:
Already Doing This
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Power Savings: Designed for
Fastboot
• Home appliances are “off” and must not consume power
• Must also be “on” immediately
– Washing machine, dryer control UI
– Machine control drivers can lag UI
• Operating System must up and running within 250ms or
earlier
• OS boot process must be easily configurable,
customizable, and debugged
• Instant Device Activation (IDA) loads drivers during boot
process, giving access to critical resources 50ms after
power-on-reset
• Staged boot process provides ultimate flexibility of
system design
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13. Connected Application Reference Platform for
Whitegoods
Web Connectivity
• Remote data
monitoring
• Remote control
• Virtual tech support
Applications
• Music, Video, AM/FM
• Baidu
• Pandora
• Slacker, TuneIn
• The Weather Network
• Torch Web Browser
Real-time / Reliability
• Fast boot
• Reliable
• Hardware integration
• Lower cost hardware
Connectivity
• Bluetooth
• Apple iOS devices
• DLNA, NFC
• USB
• Mirrorlink
Platform + framework
• Qt / Adobe
• Android Player
• HTML5 app framework
• Software update

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Platform for Whitegoods 1.0
HTML5 SDK for
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Reference applications (music, climate …)
HTML5
Qt 5
3rd party
applications
Android
Runtime
Voice Rec
TTS
Application Management, Screen Graphics Composition
Mobile Device Gateway
Native
Development
Tools
Platform Services
Apple, BlackBerry, Android, WinPhone
iPod Out, MirrorLink, DLNA, MTP
USB, Bluetooth, WiFi
Acoustic Processing
Audio Management Service
Radio Integration Module
Software Update
QNX RTOS + QNX SDK for Apps and Media
Hardware / BSPs
Freescale, Texas Instruments, NVIDIA …

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