Report on CAR NAVIGATION SYSTEMS

INTRODUCTION OF CAR NAVIGATION SYSTEMS

The car navigation system is a component of the controls of automobiles for finding the paths in the car. The navigation system is basically very powerful system that helps the car driver to find the exact paths as well as the new directions for having a safe journey. Most of the time, the driver has no idea to go on the desired place or lack of information where his / her desired location exists and the driver has to stay at a single place to ask the proper address or the directions to reach there. The navigation system made the task to reach the desired location so easy because it provides optimum paths in the graphical representation on the Google-connected maps in the interface of the navigation device fixed in the cars, which is connected with internet as well as with the satellite. In this report, a brief history is provided on the navigation systems, which were so costly and needed a lot of improvement as well as it was also so expensive and costly. A brief analysis of the car navigation systems is also provided you to become familiar with this system to adopt. The conclusion part provides the overall summary and theme for quick view of the system.

History OF CAR NAVIGATION SYSTEMS

            GPS is one of the most valuable services to bear out of the latest technology as well as is also now installed in every smartphone as well as the particular device in several cars and different types of automobiles. Although, the navigation system was proved to get from position A to position B so tricky in the early years of the automobiles. At that time, it was very difficult to find the roads and highway because they were situated at far away as well as some little signs of the roads or the traffic signboards were fixed to find the direction but the signboard which fixed on the road were also distant, so the path lost rate was so high that consumed a lot of time to reach from current location to the desired location. To see the need for the maps in automobiles, especially in the cars, it did not take long mapmakers as well as it started by paper foldable maps for finding the right directions that pushed in the compartment of the glove turned within a multi-billion dollar industry. Furthermore, it all begun with Iter Avto.

Iter Avto

The technology with the name of Iter Avto was designed, developed, and introduced in the year of 1930. The technology was like a tool for the map guidance subsequently it did not give any kind of voice prompts or voice supported tool as well as it did not use the satellite by the way. The tool just only showed the road directions which came into market with the paper maps.

Furthermore, on Iter Avto tool, it was the device that had the papered maps wrapped in the bucket fixed below the screen of the tool as well as a cable also connected to the tool and the speedometer that handled the speed of rolling. Because of the speed of rolling, it shows the estimated location on the map. In the technical words, the map moving speed was directly proportional to car velocity. Mathematical rules were applied in this tool, so it did show the correct point on the map fixed in the display screen of the tool. The big problem with this tool was that the driver had to change the role of the papered map for every single direction which was so time-consuming (Thielmann, 2007).

Honda with Electro Gyro-Cator navigation unit

The very first navigation system for cars was developed and introduced by Honda, Stanley Electric, as well as Alpine in the year of 1981 in Japan and it, named as Electro Gyro-Cator. In this device, a small amount of the helium gas gyroscope, as well as it was similar to those systems which were used in the fighter jets in the Cold war. The navigation system were based on the methods which are mentioned here such as if the driver knows his starting point then he can easily identify that how far he did completely by distance, as well as If the driver has a knowledge on the direction he was controlled in, it must not be complicated for determining that where is he at that time.

Furthermore, the glowing maps had placed within the manual screen as well as it would provide the facility of scrolling at the six-inch monochromic screen, which was used to the make prominent the navigation, including the current location as well as the pinpoints. This unit was optional, nearly around at least 25% price of the card for the equivalent of around $2,750 (Hashizume, 2008).

CD-ROM navigation system

The automotive world was given by Japan in the year of 1987, while in the technology of navigation, it has introduced a lot of significant improvements. In short, the very first car that had the CD-ROM mapped as well as had the system for the navigation was introduced by Toyota company only in Japan in the Crown Royal Saloon G as well as it was very first which had the color display screen for showing the navigation maps.

Eunos Cosmo navigation system

As cars become more famous among people in the year of 1990s, the companies also mainly focused to develop the new things as well as mainly focus to become more improved car navigation system. Mazda is one of the best car companies in the world and it did also introduced the very first system for navigation that was based on GPS in the year 1990. The navigation system of Mazda Company was developed as well as fixed within the actual car as well as it also presented that system within the cars of Eunos Cosmos as well as it was only offered in Japan for the gadget lovers. It was very efficient because it was the very first time that did provide the actual location of on the road in real time because it was fully functional with the help of the connection or association with satellite.

Alpine CVA-1005

Japan is very effective as well as a very innovative country in the field of information technology that introduced the Alpine CVA-1005 as well as also introduced its version of a pop-out CD-ROM system for navigation such as saved or burned maps on the CD. Furthermore, it also used the global positioning system (GPS) satellites to navigate the car location which could effectively provide the actual location of the car on the maps as well as the destination too. It was very effective but it also had a major issue which was not acceptable because the user or the driver wanted the reliability, as well as comfort from the end of the navigation system, a very few states, was covered by every CD which had the mapping data. In very simple words, the major issue was that the driver required to change the CD ROM to load the maps of the particular area or the states which were very annoying because in the case of misplacing the CD’s the driver was unable to the navigation the location (Tanaka, Kishino, & Nishio, 2009).

Early Garmin StreetPilot

The very first portable street pilot was introduced by Garmin which was also the navigation system for the use of the automotive as well as it was also usable in the cars. Such system was introduced within the year 1998. The specialty of the system was that the system device had the black and white screen as well as in the technical language, it was working on the eight bits, as well as it also used the cartridges along with the mapping. The main feature of the device was that it could cover impartially small are such as Atlanta because it was working on the cartridges. A GPS navigation system could be bought by everyone, and it was a huge advance in the technology of the navigation as well as in only that condition if they might have the power to buy this product to navigate the actual locations in the cars. The average price initially around 550 US dollars. The best option on all of them was, it could be moved from car to car at will, fly to a particular location or drive to a particular location as well as it was also used it in the rental cars. So due to its small size as well as lightweight, they could carry this device everywhere they wanted.

Important points

Navigation Data Standards

The NDS initiative is a manufacturing industry for manufacturing the cars as well as the navigation supplier system as well as it objective is to make a standard of format of the data used in the car navigation system as well as it also makes the map allowed to update it automatically. There are several companies around the worker who are currently following its standards such as BMW, Volkswagen, Panasonic, Alpine Electronics as well as many more.

Media

It stored the maps in the solid-state Rom, optical media such as DVDs and CDs as well as in the other kind of media. The data will be passed through the association or connection of the internet wirelessly or Bluetooth. Furthermore, the map’s data will be stored into the internal memory or the external memory of the fixed devices in the cars or into the smartphone devices through connecting with internet.

Compare between car navigation systems

In the comparison of the car navigation systems, we have several types of car navigation systems from the past to the future. Google navigation is comparatively is far better than other kinds of car navigation systems because it provides a lot of features and facilities to the drivers such as the position a to position b directions. If the any route is blocked the navigation system of Google will provide an alternative path for having safer drive as well as it also shows the nearby locations such as the hotels, shops, power stations, as well as it also provides the voice prompts and voice instructions which make it more reliable because by listening the navigation system’s voice, there is no to read the instructions, locations or see the locations. Furthermore, the map’s data will be stored into the internal memory or the external memory of the fixed devices in the cars or into the smartphone devices through connecting with internet (Kanoh, 2007).

Conclusion OF CAR NAVIGATION SYSTEMS

I have concluded that a brief history provided in this report on the different technologies and the companies such as Honda, Mazda, Toyota as well as Alpine and other companies. To see the need for the maps in automobiles, especially in the cars, it did not take long mapmakers as well as it started by paper foldable maps for finding the right directions that pushed in the compartment of the glove turned within a multi-billion dollar industry. Furthermore, it all begun with Iter Avto. There are several companies around the worker who are currently following its standards such as BMW, Volkswagen, Panasonic, Alpine Electronics as well as many more.

References OF CAR NAVIGATION SYSTEMS

Hashizume, M. (2008). U.S. Patent No. 7,333,889. DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Kanoh, H. (2007). Dynamic route planning for car navigation systems using virus genetic algorithms. International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, 65-78.

Tanaka, K., Kishino, Y., & Nishio, T. T. (2009). A destination prediction method using driving contexts and trajectory for car navigation systems. In Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing, 190-195.

Thielmann, T. (2007). You have reached your destination!" Position, positioning and superpositioning of space through car navigation systems. Social Geography, 63-75.