BMW Idrive: Discover the new system

Now with BMW Idrive , The air conditioning control system will be integrated into the BMW Curved Display curved screen: passengers should only rarely need to adjust the settings for fully automatic air conditioning. An improvement made possible by integration within the same intelligent control system for all the features linked to the adjustment of the room temperature and the comfort of the passengers.

Idrive 9: Android arrives at BMW from 2023, but there is a “hic” !

The manufacturer took advantage of these to reveal Some elements around his next bone, But we will only be entitled slide new generation idrive:

No native google services

As you can see, BMW apparently retains its on -board applications, be it cartography, planner, Classic interfaces, even if we observe some widgets in overlays probably offering more flexibility to a bone that would be more reactive. The system will be connected in 5g and will allow OTA updates to be updated (remotely).

BMW i4 40 test: screens, carkey, connectivity and a licked interior !

No Google service seems to integrate the Idrive 9, But BMW still specifies that users will have access to the Play Store or equivalent. It remains to be seen whether we can access the real Google Maps with route planning for example, which is far from obvious. Other upcoming applications (Netflix, YouTube, Games etc.) could also make it possible to take care a little during the charges, as at Tesla.

An Idrive 8.5 For the old BMW

Another disappointment, IDRIVE 9 will not be available in OTA update for vehicles under IDRIVE 8. BMW therefore provides an Idrive 8.5 Integrating the latest news, but without the application shop ! Those who bought the IX1 or i4 have something to be a little disappointed.

Worse, Those who have just bought the new series 7 (which only begins to be produced) will not have an Idrive 9 ! The latter will arrive with the new X1 and X2, as well as the Serie 2 Active Tourer. For them, it will also be 8.5, whose lifespan may be more limited. Among the Germans, hardware and software are often quite frozen and it is not even said that Idrive 9 will arrive on these models at the end of the year.

A first step before all-android ?

In short, without entering feet joined in the Google ecosystem, BMW therefore lets itself be an exit to the American, while others, like Volkswagen persist with a home system and could rather switch to Apple with the new full version of Carplay Presented in June.

Idrive remains a complete and advanced system, But who has largely lost competitiveness in terms of functionality and scalability since the arrival of Android Automotive systems or compared to the Tesla bone. let’s remember that IDRIVE 8 is the only system that manages Apple Carkey and that allows you to open and start the car with a simple Apple Watch ! BMW was also the first manufacturer to adopt Carplay Wifi. In fact, it is amazing that the Bavarian does not adopt by the full version of Carplay.

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BMW Idrive: Discover the new system

The brand new version of the BMW Idrive command and display system brings the relationship between the driver and his vehicle into a new digital era marked by increasingly relevant proposals on an increasing number of everyday aspects.

The new generation of the on -board operating system signed BMW allows cars it equips to play an active role in interactions with passengers, thus becoming an intelligent and proactive digital partner in all circumstances. This is born a natural dialogue, the purpose of which is to adapt all of the features ordered by BMW Idrive to the driver’s needs and preferences according to the situation, and this with great accuracy.

At the heart of this new user experience hides the brand new BMW OS 8 operating system, new generations of screens, controls and software as well as a particularly powerful data processing and connectivity tool. The new IDRIVE system will be gradually deployed on all the models of models, starting at the end of this year with the BMW IX then with the BMW i4.

The capacity of the BMW smart assistant to adapt to the habits and personal needs of each driver as well as to the driving situation in fact more than ever an essential cog in the interactions between humans and the machine. The design of the operating system is clearly focused on a proposal for a dialogue that is based on natural language and tactile controls operated via the BMW CURVED DISPLAY curved screen.

But that’s not all: the welcome “Great Loads” adds a touch of emotion in the relationship between the car and its driver, even before the latter takes place on board. This new user experience allows you to welcome the driver and to offer him a carefully choreographed routine to invite him to settle.

During the journey, the new “My Modes” device is based on a wide range of features to provide the driver with exceptional driving experience by combining the characteristics of the vehicle and the interior atmosphere most suited to circumstances.

The new BMW Idrive system constantly ensures the processing of a very large number of data generated within the car, information available online and data obtained from the BMW models in circulation to respond to driver’s wishes taking into account the context.

One of the main advances in terms of personalization is the BMW ID device, which identifies repeated situations, draws lessons from it and makes proposals to the driver to activate the suitable features if necessary.

The remote software upgrade system “Remote Software Update” also allows the new BMW Idrive system to regularly have the latest updates, integrate additional functionalities and thus be permanently at the forefront of ‘innovation.

20 years ago, it all started with the launch of a rotating command and a digital screen. Today, the brand new BMW Idrive system offers a varied, intelligent, multisensory experience adapted to the personal needs of each driver, embodying a new paradigm, that of a natural dialogue between passengers and the car, more intuitive, personal and inspiring, but above all richer in emotions than ever.

BMW Idrive: conceptual approach and operation.

The launch of the new generation BMW Idrive system coincides with the introduction of a new design for the new BMW OS 8 operating system. Impacting graphics and pleasant to the eye, modern colors, textures and futuristic shapes, lighting lighting and reflections create a marking visual set offering an unprecedented immersion. At the same time, the user interface has been optimized in order to present to the driver with ease the most useful information depending on the situation, and this in an easy way to understand to him.

The BMW Idrive display placed at the center of the driver’s field of vision made a strong impression in particular thanks to its generous display surface and its clean forms, its dynamic light effects, but also the intensity and modernity of its associations colours. All screens have a very high graphic resolution of 200 ppi.

The stories of functions placed on the steering wheel allow you to make a simple and quick choice among the large number of personalized display options offered for the screen behind the steering wheel. Navigation among the functions is carried out according to two axes: a rotary command allows you to switch from one function to another in a vertical drop -down list, while the passage from one menu to another is made on the horizontal plane thanks to the dedicated keys.

At a single thumb pressure and in a few simple steps, the driver can choose from three information diagrams of the information to which can be added different widgets according to his personal preferences or the driving situation. Called “Drive”, the first arrangement presents, in the center of the screen, a dynamic display area allowing to display the information of its choice. The “Focus” arrangement is designed for situations requiring great responsiveness. Finally, in the “Gallery” scheme, the area dedicated to driving information is clearly limited in order to offer as much space as possible to widgets.

The latter allow in particular to display data relating to the media source in use, an overview of the current route or detailed information on driving aid systems interventions. Each of these arrangements has a colorful graphic charter which is its own as well as three -dimensional animations made even more realistic thanks to the light reflections, thus distinguishing itself even more clearly from the other two.

Allowing to have an overview of the most relevant information at any time, the widgets have a clearly defined structure and a new arrangement which immediately attracts the look within the large screen control screen. Placed one after the other in an uninterrupted carousel on the home screen, they offer most of the information in the form of an animated image.

The most frequently used BMW IDrive features are displayed and can thus be launched using a simple touch contact. The driver can select the widgets that appear on the home screen and configure their order of appearance. But the latter can also adapt to the driving situation, using fluid and dynamic animations to display more or less information depending on the circumstances.

Revisited, the media reader is one of the most successful visual elements. Always continuing the approach already started to return to the essentials, it now presents a simple and clear design with almost magnetic charm. An algorithm identifies the main colors of the album covering the album during reading and offers a matching dynamic coloring on the reader’s display surface.

The BMW Idrive system gives rise to an interpersonal relationship and a natural dialogue between passengers and the car.

BMW Idrive: A natural dialogue with the smart personal assistant BMW.

The new generation of the BMW Idrive system sees increasing the skills of the BMW smart assistant. In order to strengthen the personal link between this digital assistant and the occupants of the vehicle, users can always give the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant a personalized name, which then serves as a voice command.

In the field of interpersonal communication, a certain number of information is transmitted in a non -verbal manner. The new visual approach adopted for the assistant uses light spheres of different sizes and different levels of brightness, thus offering more possibilities and forms of expression.

This visual fitness also makes it possible to give a concrete incarnation to the assistant by providing the driver an element on which to concentrate and from which identify different activities via predefined gestures.

BMW Idrive designers relied on in -depth specifications and an evaluation catalog to select the assistant’s visual form from more than a hundred projects. Pleasant, the chosen form inspires confidence and shows the dynamism required to express different emotions and various states of mind without words like a real person.

The BMW intelligent personal assistant also benefits from expanding the perimeter of its features. The volume of underlying data and information on which it is based has been revised upwards, which allows it to gain not only in intelligence, but also to adapt its reactions to the context. He is thus able to take into account the situation within the car and the surroundings when he must decide when and how he will communicate with the passengers.

To choose where and how it will appear, the personal assistant uses the discreet and intuitive technologies of “Shy Tech”. When it is pronounced its name, it appears with a fluid animation and shows itself on all the screens without concealing any of the important information. The BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant is able to distinguish who speaks him and appear on the most suitable screen portion. A dedicated widget also allows you to quickly access the other parameters and suggestions of the assistant.

The BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant will also be able to complete his panoply of features and forms of expression according to the continuous development of the BMW Idrive system. These new characteristics will be regularly imported into the vehicle using the remote software upgrading device.

BMW Idrive: Increased customization possibilities thanks to the BMW ID system.

Using the new BMW Idrive system, customers benefit from a variety of increased customization options thanks to the BMW ID system. In the future, it will be possible to store even more personalized parameters on the system and to transfer them between several vehicles. To prevent other users from accessing personal data, the BMW ID system can be protected by a PIN code or a dedicated key.

Once the BMW ID profile is loaded, the driver receives a personalized home message with a personalized profile image that can be downloaded via the My BMW application. The activation of the BMW ID profile is carried out using the dedicated key or by selecting the ad hoc profile in the vehicle; The car then automatically adopts the corresponding personalized settings.

A warm welcome from the car: “Great Moments”.

“Great Moments: This is the name chosen to describe the experience that awaits the driver as soon as he approaches his vehicle and until he starts his journey. This reception routine follows a number of stages orchestrated by the car to enrich the feeling on arrival in the car and make it even more inspiring, like the rest of the user experience.

Behind this routine hides the ultralanged band radio technology (UWB), which allows the car to locate with great precision the presence of the contact key or an authorized smartphone, so that the vehicle is able to detect D ‘where the driver arrives and how far he is with a margin of error of a few centimeters. As soon as the driver is less than three meters away, the car launches the host routine by signaling its awakening by a dynamic light effect which is gradually intensifying, calling on its exterior lighting.

The cabin also benefits from progressive lighting, guiding the driver to the entrance to the vehicle whose threshold lighting projects on the floor in front of the door a bright carpet with geometric shapes responding to the graphic elements of the user interface. At the same time, the handles of the doors and the trunk light up to facilitate their use by the driver.

As soon as the driver is less than 1.5 meters from the car, the latter activates the centralized unlocking, which it detects the UWB key or a smartphone equipped with the BMW Digital Key Plus application. As soon as a door is open, the system positions the seats and flying so as to facilitate entry into the vehicle, while heating of the seats and the steering wheel are launched. As for the BMW Curved Display curved screen, it is occupied on its entire surface by a welcome animation signed BMW indicating the start of the whole system.

Loading personalized parameters of the BMW ID system then launches and the connection is established with the driver’s smartphone, even though it is barely setting up. If a telephone conversation is in progress, it is automatically transferred to the microphone and the speakers of the car. Meanwhile, the control screen displays a home window with a personalized message as well as useful suggestions and information.

The BMW Idrive system provides optimal assistance to the driver and fascinates by its intelligence.

BMW Idrive: An integral driving experience that delights the senses: “my modes”.

The new BMW IDRIVE “My Modes” feature offers the driver a full driving experience focused on personal preferences, thus creating a unique atmosphere for the driver as for passengers. The designers who have developed “My Modes” have set out to take into account a multitude of elements useful for the driving situation in order to maximize the functionality and the emotional impact for the user experience depending on the circumstances.

The different modes of this function are designed to stimulate each of the five senses, starting with sight, hearing and touch. The choice among the available modes is made easily using the voice command or via a dedicated button placed on the central console.

The initial version of “My Modes” offers an adjustment combining up to ten different parameters within the car, including the old functions relating to driving modes, control of the motor force and the transmission, the characteristics of the direction or still the parameters of the chassis.

Several elements indicate which configuration has been chosen: a pictorial work specially designed for my modes, the style and the layout of the screens as well as the dominant shade of the latter, which thus adapt to the parameters chosen as well as the lighting of atmosphere.

The change between each of the “my modes” configurations is accompanied by an adaptation of the acoustic elements of the car, starting with the sound signature of the engine.

For its launch, the new BMW Idrive system has “efficient”, “sport” and “personal” modes. New configurations will be added later as part of the continuous development of the BMW Idrive system, including in particular modes less focused around the driver or the conduct proper.

Additional features will also be added to each mode and the function configuration options will be extended. These improvements will be integrated into vehicles using “Over-Air” updates.

BMW Idrive: Look, park or load your battery with BMW MAPS.

With the arrival of the new BMW OS 8 operating system, digital services dedicated to navigation, parking or battery recharge is fully integrated into the new BMW Maps system based on the cloud. The intelligent BMW Maps features have also been completed.

Among all these features, one of the most important is the learning navigation, or “learning navigation”, which describes the way in which BMW MAPs relies on the habits associated with each BMW ID profile to complete its database and anticipate the next destination that the driver is likely to choose.

The latter thus spares the need to enter its destination again with each regular route, a saving of precious time especially for the journeys between the home and the work where one still needs to be informed of the possible traffic jams or incidents along the route. The list of recorded destinations can be viewed in the vehicle or on the My BMW application, and each record can be deleted if you wish.

The navigation system card offers three different types of display: the first is the “adaptive” view that displays the relevant information throughout the route according to the driving situation and the driver’s habits. The quantity of information displayed is more reduced in the “reduced” display (reduced), which only indicates the four most frequently used points of points of interest.

Finally, the “extended” view (expanded) offers all the information available, whether it be points of interest, the state of traffic on adjacent roads or even real -time parking spaces.

BMW Idrive: Intelligent automatic air conditioning.

Now with BMW Idrive , The air conditioning control system will be integrated into the BMW Curved Display curved screen: passengers should only rarely need to adjust the settings for fully automatic air conditioning. An improvement made possible by integration within the same intelligent control system for all the features linked to the adjustment of the room temperature and the comfort of the passengers.

Each adjustment of the settings is recorded by the system and associated with the BMW ID profile in use, avoiding the occupants of the vehicle to have to repeat the same settings.

The pre -recorded configuration was scheduled from an assessment carried out on more than 440 million trips made by our customers on all our series of models and in all regions of the world.

In addition to the power of ventilation and the distribution of air, intelligent air conditioning also ensures the setting of the temperature of the steering wheel and surfaces as well as the heating of the seats and the ventilation of the passenger compartment in order to offer optimal thermal comfort passengers.

To limit as much as possible the energy consumption of the air conditioning system, automatic air conditioning also takes into account other factors, such as the number of occupants present on board, their location or the intensity and the management of sunshine. The BMW intelligent automatic air conditioning control system is thus an interconnection model compared to other air conditioning systems in the automotive sector.

The air conditioning control is carried out centrally by specifying a target temperature for each area of ​​the passenger compartment. By relying on the personalized user settings of the air conditioning menu, intelligent air conditioning itself automatically ensures the regulation and operation of the available features. It is also possible to use the voice command to share its wishes directly: thus, if a passenger simply says “I am cold on the feet”, the system automatically increases the temperature in the area of ​​the feet.

BMW Idrive Technology and Connectivity.

BMW Idrive: BMW OS 8 operating system.

The BMW OS 8 operating system is the most powerful and complete data ecosystem (or “technology stack”) ever created by BMW. It is he who forms the basis of the innovative eighth generation of the BMW Idrive system. BMW Group ensures the development of this central unit and software integration platform entirely internally on Linux since 2013. It is important for the company to maintain control over its software in order to offer a stable, quality system, which can be updated and distinctive for the brand. In the time of accelerated digital development, it is no longer enough to offer upgrades of the digital tools of a model that every three years.

The launch of the remote software upgrade now makes the car a digital platform in its own right, from its design. Thus, when launching a new BMW operating system, development work is far from finished. On the contrary, the version available at launch is only the basis of continuous development which continues throughout the life cycle of the product. The integration of interactions between software and hardware elements, the technical possibilities offered by remote upgrade and the agility of business development processes are all factors that make it capable of offering its customers new customers features in a few months or even in a few weeks.

BMW Idrive: Always up to date: remote software upgrade.

Since the launch of the BMW OS 7 operating system in 2018, BMW model drivers have been able to have a vehicle still equipped with the latest software versions thanks to the remote software upgrade device (Remote Software Upgrade). The new BMW OS 8 operating system offers the same service with substantial improvements.

Thus, within the framework of the BMW OS 8 operating system, remote software upgrade will also make it possible to carry out particularly complex and complete updates in fields such as driving assistance systems or automation partial. The BMW OS 8 operating system will also offer customers the possibility of programming the installation of a remote software upgrade.

BMW Group is one of the main players in the area of ​​upgrades carried out remotely. From 2020, he was the one who took the largest upgrading campaign of all European car manufacturers. The group has set itself the objective of offering by the end of 2021 the car fleet that can achieve the largest update update in the world. Until then, more than 2.5 million BMW brand models will be compatible with the Remote Software Upgrade device.

BMW Idrive: BMW Digital Key Plus with Ultralarge band technology.

BMW has been a pioneer in the use of a smartphone as a digital key to the vehicle since 2018. Thus, the premium car manufacturer has developed a new practical and secure way of unlocking and starting your car in without even having to get its Apple iPhone out of its pocket. Called BMW Digital Key Plus, the new version of this digital key is based on ultralanged band technology (UWB) which already equips cars as well as in particular the U1 chip of the iPhone.

UWB technology is a form of digital radiofrequency for very wide strip and short -range applications which makes it possible to carry out an extremely precise geolocation highly securely. The launch of the BMW Digital Key Plus will take place in parallel with that of the 100% electric BMW IX.

BMW Idrive: Number and variety of applications revised upwards: optimization of the integration of third -party applications.

The BMW Idrive Nouvelle Generation system presents a whole series of new possibilities allowing customers to integrate their habits and preferences within the operating system. The increased flexibility of the system thus simplifies the on -board use of third -party applications and makes it more intuitive. The BMW OS 8 operating system always provides full integration of Apple Carplay and Android Auto, while the new BMW IDRIVE system allows you to fully integrate the Alibaba and Tencent services for Chinese customers.

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