Toyota demonstrates LINE's "CLOVA" app and Onkyo's "AI Smart Automortive" with SDL -compatible vehicles

The SDL is based on "Applink", which was originally developed by Ford.This Applink is developed, and the standard standard created by joining Toyota, such as Toyota, is SDL.Using a Ford brand called APPLINK, the name of the SDL was created because other car manufacturers could not use it.

However, automakers do not need to call them SDL, even if they are services based on SDL standards.Ford calls SDL -compliant services under the brand name of Applink, and when other manufacturers actually, they will also give their own brand name.In other words, marketing and commercialization are performed by each, but the SDL efforts are to unify the specifications as a standard.

This SDL specifies a protocol that exchanges the in -vehicle information system and a smart device (smartphone or tablet), as well as a SDL service server in the cloud via a smart device line.As long as the application corresponds to SDL, the OS may be Android, iOS, anyway, and whatever it can be used, it is great to be independent of the OS specification.It is a feature.

In addition, since the protocol of operations using the remote control on the vehicle side is also specified, for example, by pressing the "audio recognition" button on the handle on the vehicle side, the voice recognition software corresponding to SDL is made by voice.Search can be used.In addition, since it is specified to exchange the app with the app on the touch panel of the in -vehicle information system, it is possible to operate the smartphone app using the display of the in -vehicle information system (however.The app needs to support SDL).

Similar mechanisms include standards such as Apple's "CarPlay" and Google's "Android Auto", and more and more in -vehicle information systems are compatible with CarPlay and Android Auto.The difference between those and SDL is that whether or not with CarPlay or Android Auto, Apple and Google have determined the specifications on the vehicle side, so car manufacturers cannot freely add functions, but SDL in SDL.The manufacturer can add functions.For example, how to use a remote control is the best example, and when searching from CarPlay by Siri, it is possible to eliminate restrictions such as not being able to use the voice recognition button on the handle.