Jan 29, 2013 · SD Times
When Ford announced it had begun working with Bug Labs in 2011, the pairing seemed strange. Ford is America's oldest auto manufacturer, while Bug Labs is a quirky hardware startup focused on Lego-like device functionality. Just after the beginning of the new year, Ford released a finalized some of the fruits of that pairing: an open-source API for cars known as OpenXC.
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Jan 15, 2013 · Telematics News
Ford has launched a second developer platform aimed at developing new innovative uses for vehicle data. The new OpenXC platform follows on from the Ford Developer Program launched last week to make the SYNC AppLink application programming interface (API) available for the creation of smartphone apps that can be controlled inside the car using your voice.
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Jan 10, 2013 · Media.Ford.com
On the heels of launching its first software developer program, Ford is now turning its attention to the growing trend in hardware hacking by transforming vehicles into an experimental development environment. The OpenXC research platform from Ford is now out of beta and available to all “makers” and do-it-yourselfers at http://openxcplatform.com.
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Jan 10, 2013 · Gigaom
Ford has lots of developer programs up its sleeve. After opening up Sync to developers this week, it announced Thursday OpenXC, an open-source software and hardware program that exposes the internal workings of the vehicle to a future generation of apps and devices.
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Jan 8, 2013 · Tech Crunch
Our cars today feature a lot of sensors, but it’s not easy for developers and hardware hackers to access to all of this data, which is typically proprietary and manufacturer specific. Last year, Ford, in collaboration with Bug Labs, announced the beta of its OpenXC program to allow developers to access metrics from its cars’ internal network.
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Sep 28, 2012 · Comcast Voices
Innovation is central to Comcast's plans for the future — rapid, compelling and meaningful innovation that enhances the lives of our customers.
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Aug 22, 2012 · Best Free Android Apps Blog
OpenXC – an open-source connectivity research system developed by Ford and New York City-based Bug Labs – employs a small hardware component installed in the automobile that reads and translates data from the on board network. That information then is accessible for use in Android applications. With it, developers will be able to devise applications allowing drivers to send emails, get directions and who-knows-what other tasks without taking his or her eyes off the road.
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Jul 5, 2012 · HCL Tech
HCL, has developed two applications "Late Arrival Notification" and "Safe arrival notification". The app will allow driver to provide selected personal contacts, whom he wants to notify while he is getting late or reaches safely at a destination. By monitoring location and speed information from the vehicle through OpenXC interface, the app can determine if driver is running late for a meeting and then send an e-mail or text message notification to other attendees automatically. Similarly app will notify the driver's family following a safe arrival after a road trip.
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Jun 20, 2012 · Slashdot
Ford has opened a laboratory in Silicon Valley with the stated aim of exploring “big data, open-source innovation and user experience.” The opening of the Ford Silicon Valley Lab (SVL) seems an offshoot of the car industry’s enthusiasm for embedding sensors in multiple automobile systems. Millions of sensors’ worth of information provide companies such as Ford with the data necessary to make vehicles safer and more efficient. That’s a significant opportunity, but any organization on the receiving end of that sort of data flood also needs the facilities and tools to analyze it for valuable insights. In addition to improving individual vehicles, Ford seems to believe that aggregated data from multiple car sensors can help solve more society-level issues such as traffic congestion. By placing the lab in Silicon Valley, the company is obviously hoping to leverage the expertise of nearby tech companies. (Ford has set up a Silicon Valley Lab Website, but it remains bare except for some brief explanatory text and some very pretty pictures of couches and steering wheels.) Ford seemed a little vague about SVL’s open-source plans. “Viewing the car as a platform and providing access to real-time data allows for the rapid development of custom hardware and software applications,” read a press release issued June 18. “Now the Silicon Valley Lab is looking at open-source development using the research platform OpenXC developed with Bug Labs.”
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Jun 7, 2012 · element14 Community
I attended Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire last weekend and was quite impressed by Ford's OpenXC project: "an API to your car". I'd read about project earlier this year but talking to the Ford engineers helped me understand the potential...
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