Connected Car App Development
An API-Driven Platform for Connected Vehicle - Control, Monitoring & Personalization.
Book DemoThe relationship between automotive OEMs and its customers is evolving far beyond vehicle purchase experience & service center visits.
Mobile apps have become crucial to offer advanced control features and maintain continuous engagement with vehicle owners. It also opens additional revenue streams, post-vehicle delivery.
A connected car application software is an IoT mobile app that:
Interfaces with a vehicle’s in-vehicle infotainment system, instrument cluster, telematics control unit (TCU) and other vehicle ECUs.
Exchanges data and commands between the vehicle and the owner, OEM or third-party stakeholders.
Embitel’s connected mobility team has developed a Connected Car App for Android and iOS that can be white-labelled and customized by OEMs to deliver a branded vehicle ownership experience.
The vehicle-to-device connectivity solution delivers a wide range of connected vehicle services from OEM to customers.
Customizable Connected Car Application Platform Made for
OEMs
- Integrate APIs & Widgets to deliver the desired connected vehicle services to end customers through our APIs.
- Easily integrate the application with existing cloud/backend.
- Customize the look and feel of the app to match brand guidelines.
- Deliver customized in-app experience based on vehicle trim.
- Enable in-app purchases to monetize connected vehicle services.
- Integrate a dedicated dashboard to monitor, diagnose, troubleshooting issues between the OEM companion app and backend services.
Tier-1 Suppliers
- Reuse proven connected car application APIs and widgets across OEM programs, based on request for proposal (RFP).
- Re-skin the application UI as per OEM client requirements while maintaining one platform underneath.
- Ship faster with a pre-validated app layer, instead of custom builds.
- Offer custom dashboards to monitor and perform root cause analysis on the performance of APIs when deployed in the connected vehicle app ecosystem.
Smarter Vehicles. Stronger Connections.
Let’s build a connected future together.
Unlock Connected Car Experience
Integrate our Open, REST APIs, customizable widgets and screens to deliver the connected vehicle services through the car companion app.
Pick and choose from the list of features below to integrate into a connected car app project:
Real-Time Vehicle Information / Statistics
Enable customers to instantly understand the vehicle’s status before they start their next trip.
- Fuel level
- Odometer
- Available Range / Distance to Empty (DTE)
- Trip Information & Analytics
- Vehicle status
Plan Trips with Navigation & Vehicle Tracking
Help customers add predictability to their journey. Our reusable components execute navigation and vehicle tracking capabilities in the companion app.
- Maps
- Real-time Cluster / Infotainment to Companion App Route Projection
- Parked Vehicle Locator / Find my Vehicle
- Fuel & Charging Station Locator
- Estimated Driving Time
- Route Planning
Actionable Insights on Vehicle Diagnostics
Empower vehicle owners to understand vehicle health data better with performance graphs, alert messages and notifications to simplify proactive care.
- Vehicle health monitoring
- Vehicle fluid levels
- Tire pressure monitoring
- Predictive maintenance
- Vehicle diagnostics
One Touch Digital Key for Remote Control
Give customers convenient, connected control of their vehicle from their smartphone with:
- Remote vehicle lock / unlock
- Remote engine start
- Cabin temperature control
Deliver Connected Ownership & Brand Experience
As a value-add, give owners a smart way to own, manage the vehicle and improve driving experience through:
- OTA update notifications
- Driver & User Profiles
- Personalization via ambient & mood lighting control
- Virtual locker for vehicle & driver documents
- Service History & Reminders
- Vehicle Care Tips
- Find Service Center
- Virtual Garage
Assured Safety & Performance Optimization Insights
Help customers improve driving safety and vehicle performance with actionable insights into:
- Driver performance scoring
- Driving coach
- Driving trend graphs
- Speeding Alerts
- Call for Roadside Assistance
- Collision alerts
- Emergency calling
Required feature integration not listed above?
Our connected car software engineering experts can quickly develop, validate, and integrate it for you.
One Connected Car Application for Multiple Vehicle Trims
Connected car experience varies between the base, mid-range and premium models.
Using our car companion app IP, deliver user interface (UI) and user-experience (UX) and connected vehicle services, unique to each vehicle trim.
Here are the color codes set at default:
White & Orange
A clean, accessible interface for essential connected services.
Blue & Black
A refined digital experience with expanded vehicle controls.
Black & Gold
A premium-themed interface for a more elevated ownership experience.
Easily customize color codes and integrate from a wide range of application APIs & widgets based on vehicle trim.
Virtual Garage: Unified Interface to Manage Multiple Vehicles
A customer may own multiple vehicles from the same brand, potentially across different vehicle classes.
The virtual garage feature allows the customer to manage all their vehicles from a single connected car application.
For example, let’s consider a loyal Volkswagen customer. He/she has 3 vehicles (Polo, Virtus and Tiguan) with 3 different trims – One base model, one mid-range and one premium.
With our app, enable users to switch access between the vehicles from the customizable garage interface.
When a vehicle is selected, the application dynamically adapts its:
- Trim-based Theme
- Available features
- Vehicle information
- Controls
- Alerts
- Connected services
based on the vehicle trim.
This feature also provides quick and color-coded indications of vehicle’s readiness based on fuel/charge, tire pressure and diagnostics insights.
Our Deployment Approach to Engineer An OEM Connected Car App
Our connected car app is developed using pre-built modular building blocks i.e., reusable components.
This means the solution can be re-skinned and re-deployed without re-engineering the backend each time, just like a white-label connected car app.
In addition, the feature APIs and widgets can be customized based on customer preferences.
This development approach helps us deliver a complete connected car app solution that meets brand requirements in less than 3 months.
Select connected car APIs from Embitel’s library of reusable components.
Configure each component to meet brand-specific needs.
Customize the UI/UX of the frontend.
Test the performance of the app with our in-house verification and validation team.
Launch the custom connected car app.
Monitor the performance using a dedicated API observability/diagnostics dashboard.
Quick Access Conversational Chatbot
The car companion app is integrated with a conversational chatbot – EmbiBot, powered by Gemini LLM.
Customers can ask any questions related to their vehicle’s performance, readiness, trip details, and more and receive personalized answers.
The integrated chatbot is customizable as per your requirements, here’s what can be customized:
Customize the chatbot to your brand
Illustrative conversation. Live responses depend on connected vehicle data.
Platform Architecture Built for OEM Car Connectivity Apps
Our in-house IoT application development experts have purpose built the car companion app API’s to seamlessly integrate with your existing cloud architecture.
Here’s how we can support in setting it up, ready-to-deploy:
Cloud Infrastructure
Work with an existing cloud infrastructure or have it improved to fit in the connected car requirements. The infrastructure provides the environment for installing and reading vehicle data.
Data Processing
Process vehicle data centrally and make it available to applications and other integrations through the required data-processing layer.
APIs for Integration
Use APIs & widgets provided in the car companion solution to connect applications and external ecosystems with vehicle data. We provide Swagger documentation to support integration and helps development teams work with the available APIs.
Mobile Applications
Use our connected car app IP's many interfaces to consolidate vehicle data and deliver it to users through a user-facing application.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tool
Integrate our application observability & diagnostics tool to quickly identify the root cause of issues that can arise across the application’s touchpoints.
Secure Data Exchange from Vehicle-to-Device
The connected car app solution orchestrates seamless data exchange across three layers:
using communication protocols such as MQTT, HTTPS and Bluetooth Low Energy. Their integration helps build the foundation of secure communication.
We integrate ISO 24134 compliant safety nets based on requirements with our in-house automotive cybersecurity team.
Deliverables with the Connected Car App
Along with the connected car application, get the following documentation and engineering support:
Advantages of Choosing our Connected Car App IP
Enhanced Customer Loyalty Keep your brand connected to customers beyond the vehicle purchase. Enable connected features through a single digital experience.
Post-Delivery MonetizationExtend monetization beyond the vehicle sale and service cycle. Introduce subscription-based connected services to create new post-sale revenue streams.
