SiRF and Focus SYNC are in sync
Feb 9, 2009 gps navigation, in-dash gps, inrix, telenav
You’ve probably already heard about Ford’s SYNC technology, an in-dash platform mostly for communication, and entertainment. However the system is flexible and allows for expansion by letting other platforms take advantage of the ‘architecture bus’ present on SYNC vehicles.
In fact Ford recently announced a couple of new features which allow their vehicles to get traffic information from INRIX and get driving directions from TeleNav using SiRF hardware.
SiRF is teamed up with M/A-COM Technology Solutions to bring this to reality and according to their press release:
M/A-COM Technology Solutions’ new GPS module integrates a highly accurate SiRF GPS receiver running the SiRFDRive2 GPS dead reckoning software, a specialized GPS antenna, a microprocessor controller and memory, as well as a CAN bus transceiver and connector and associated software to create a “location server” on the vehicle network that literally location-enables the entire vehicle.
What’s interesting about the new SiRF platform used on Ford’s is that is actually can communicate with others sensors in the vehicle such as speedometer, odometer, and heading to get a better sense of position when GPS signals are not reliable.
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March 26th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
I have a 2008 ford f 250 is there anyway I can get a navigation system that has sync with it?
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