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BMW Group Digital Day 2018.
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BMW Group is offering an insight into current product developments, technological concepts, innovations and manufacturing processes that will enable it to shape the future of mobility.
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BMW Group
Digitalisation is the dominant element in the radical ongoing
transformation of personal mobility. It paves the way to a new driving
experience, expands the possibilities for enhancing safety and comfort
out on the road, and opens up new opportunities for efficient yet
customer-focused development and manufacture of vehicles. The BMW
Group is systematically forging ahead with digitalisation across all
areas. Thanks to its capacity for innovation, not only does it develop
cars and motorcycles for the premium segment that stir the emotions,
it also devises customer-centric services that optimise the mobility
experience as a whole. As part of the Digital Day 2018 event, the BMW
Group is offering an insight into current product developments,
technological concepts, innovations and manufacturing processes that
will enable it to shape the future of mobility.
Today, the BMW Group is already blazing a trail for intelligent
vehicle connectivity and the integration of digital mobility services.
It is exploiting the potential of digitalisation to further strengthen
its status as the leading provider of personal mobility at premium
level. The BMW Group has defined the key areas that will form the
stepping stones to digitalised and emission-free mobility in the
future with its corporate strategy NUMBER ONE > NEXT. In the
process, it is driving forward the D-ACES themes (Design, Autonomous,
Connected, Electrified and Services) with particular vigour through
considerable investment in research and development. The innovations
and initiatives presented at Digital Day 2018 exemplify the company’s
transformation into a mobility tech company.
5G mobile standard: BMW Group is ready to embrace the high
-speed information highway.
With improved transfer rates and minimised latency, the future 5G
mobile standard offers significantly improved technical possibilities
when it comes to data transfer – developments which can also be used
to enhance vehicle connectivity. The BMW Group is already working on
technologies which will help to utilise the full potential of 5G here.
The aim is to be able to offer systems and functions based on 5G as
soon as it becomes commercially available in series-produced vehicles
in several years’ time.
At Digital Day 2018, the BMW Group is showcasing the benefits of an
innovative feature of 5G mobile networks known as network slicing.
This technology involves making parts of the network infrastructure
available on demand in a way that suits specific applications and
their respective requirements. The customer has access to a virtual
network made up of individual slices, which can be used to update HD
navigation maps, for example, enable the direct exchange of data
between vehicles and allow videos to be streamed in HD quality.
Artificial intelligence enhances safety.
Artificial intelligence plays a key role in the development of
algorithms, which sort through and evaluate large quantities of data
and incorporate it into decision-making on how vehicles should
behave. The BMW Group is using artificial intelligence in the
development of systems for automated driving which can deal with
even extremely complex traffic situations in city centres.
Autonomous driving in which artificial intelligence helps to ensure
safe and comfortable mobility for all is another BMW Group
development goal.
The benefits of systems equipped with artificial intelligence
include their boundless capacity for work. Unlike humans, an
intelligent system can maintain constant performance levels. It
doesn’t get tired or distracted, and maintains full concentration
even in confusing situations.
Mixed reality assists the development process.
Mixed reality describes the combination of real-life prototypes
and virtual simulation that can be used to accelerate and optimise
vehicle development. The BMW Group leads the way in the use of
such methods and employs technologies from the consumer
electronics and computer gaming sectors and a new generation of
data glasses which enable users to visualise a growing number of
components and vehicle functions extremely realistically. In this
way, the impressions created by physical components can be
enhanced with digitally generated experiences.
One area in which the BMW Group uses mixed reality is the
development of vehicle interiors. Here, computer-generated
simulations are combined with an interior model (a mock-up). This
allows an all-encompassing image of the driving experience inside
a future series-produced model to be created at an early stage of development.
BMW Operating System 7.0: the display and control concept
of the future.
Dubbed BMW Operating System 7.0, the next generation of BMW’s
display and control system is entirely digital and highly
sophisticated in nature, and is designed around the user’s
individual requirements more closely than ever. Thanks to its
clear layout and structuring, intuitive operation, and
customisable and personalised displays, it has been designed to
always provide the driver with the right information at the
right time.
The redesigned all-digital instrument cluster has space to
display a section of the navigation map as well as further,
individually selectable content. At the same time, it forms a
seamless, uniformly designed display cluster with the Control
Display in the centre console, which has been further optimised
to deliver intuitive touch operation and visualises content in
real time on up to ten freely configurable main menu pages, each
containing between two and four pads. The flat menu structure
also enables fast access to all settings and functions.
Multimodal interaction between the driver and vehicle has
likewise been further improved with BMW Operating System 7.0.
The customer has a choice of iDrive Controller, touch control,
voice control and gesture control.
Real-time hazard warning system prevents accidents.
By sending out local hazard warnings to its intelligently
connected vehicles, the BMW Group is increasing safety out on
the road. To do this, the data registered by the vehicle
sensors is collected in anonymised form and processed
centrally so information indicating hazard situations can be
derived from it. This allows warnings of accident sites or
extreme local weather conditions to be relayed specifically to
vehicles in the vicinity of those situations.
Warnings of both weather-related hazards, such as fog,
black ice, heavy rain and aquaplaning, and broken-down
vehicles have been transmitted to BMW vehicles with the
requisite connectivity technology since November 2016. This
technology still offers a great deal of untapped potential,
though. Over the course of 2018, real-time traffic jam reports
are set to become even more specific by using instances of
emergency braking, while requests from the police to keep a
corridor free for emergency vehicles will also be transmitted.
The swift and accurate relaying of information on road
conditions and traffic situations also provides an important
basis for optimising the operation of automated driving systems.
The BMW Group’s secure IT backend provides connected
vehicles with live information and digital services.
Connected vehicles are now able to receive live
information and transmit data to the BMW Group’s permanently
available IT backend via a secure mobile connection in a
total of 46 markets. Besides real-time hazard warnings,
navigation map updates can also be delivered over the air in
this way.
In future, the secure IT backend will provide the
platform for other data-based applications. The BMW Group
employs technologies from the fields of cloud computing and
artificial intelligence to both optimise existing functions
and develop new services. Data protection and data security
take top priority here. Security and availability are
guaranteed thanks to the coordinated interaction between
specialised systems controlled by the BMW Group. This
approach also enables regulated opening of the backend to
integrate services from external partners, allowing the
internet’s rapid pace of innovation to be used to the
benefit of customers. Specialised systems include the Open
Mobility Cloud, which is used for providing personalised
services from BMW Connected, and the Location Platform for
transmitting hazard warnings in real time.
Digital processes speed up development and manufacturing.
Digitalisation is opening up new opportunities on the
production side as well. The additive manufacturing
techniques collectively known as 3D printing stand out in
particular for their success in delivering fast, flexible
und customisable processes. Classic examples of additive
manufacturing applications can be found in areas where
custom-made and sometimes highly complex components are
needed in small numbers. This is the case especially in
prototype development, vehicle validation and vehicle road testing.
An additively manufactured water pump wheel was fitted
in DTM racing cars for the first time back in 2010. And
the new BMW i8 Roadster features a soft-top cover with an
aluminium bracket made using metal powder laser melting, a
cutting-edge technique that has never been used before in
car manufacture. Meanwhile, the new MINI Yours Customised
product line enables customers to personalise the design
of selected components and then have them produced via 3D
printing. On top of all this, the Additive Manufacturing
Center at the BMW Group Research and Innovation Centre
(FIZ) in Munich now supplies around 140,000 prototype
parts a year to the company’s various development departments.
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