GENIVI Alliance Unveils Member Compliance Program

SAN RAMON, California, August 16, 2011 --

    
                - First Five GENIVI Compliant Solutions Approved

The GENIVI Alliance, an automotive and consumer electronics industry association driving the development and adoption of an open In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) reference platform, today announced the availability of its newly-created Compliance Program to its member companies. This milestone program is the result of 14 months of painstaking research and investigation among GENIVI "expert groups" -- with broad representation across the membership -- to define a detailed set of technical requirements.

GENIVI members Canonical, Mentor Graphics, MontaVista, and Wind River, along with the Linux Foundation are the first to have offerings approved as GENIVI compliant, enabling them to qualify for OEM request for proposals requiring GENIVI compliant products.

"This program embodies the natural flow within GENIVI from aligned requirements, to identified components which meet those requirements, to a packaged, re-usable platform," said Steve Crumb, executive director, GENIVI Alliance. "The program clarifies what is expected for members wishing to provide compliant software solutions."

"Jaguar Land Rover and other GENIVI member automotive OEMs are now specifying GENIVI compliance in their requests for proposals (RFPs) for future IVI systems," said Matt Jones, Jaguar Land Rover Infotainment Lead and GENIVI vice president. "To respond to these RFPs, software suppliers need to have demonstrated that they can produce products and services that meet the GENIVI compliance requirements."

The program also provides the foundations for delivering the benefits of using the GENIVI platform. These benefits are: speeds time-to-market; dramatically reduces development costs; provides code transparency; broadens options for integrating and customizing solutions and increases IVI interchangeability across vehicle makes and models.

In addition to allowing multiple distributions to be compliant, the program encourages member companies to offer different versions of components enabling diversity while still being compliant, allowing replacement of a particular component or group of components with another open-source or proprietary implementation that satisfies the compliance criteria.

For further information on GENIVI's compliance program and current list of GENIVI complaint products, visit GENIVI.

About GENIVI Alliance

GENIVI Alliance is a non-profit industry association whose mission is to drive the broad adoption of an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) open source development platform. GENIVI will accomplish this by aligning requirements, delivering reference implementations, offering certification programs and fostering a vibrant open source IVI community. GENIVI's work will result in shortened development cycles, quicker time-to-market, and reduced costs for companies developing IVI equipment and software.