Jaguar Land Rover North America and SiriusXM have announced Jaguar Land Rover has selected Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services Inc., a subsidiary of SiriusXM, to provide call center support for safety and security services to vehicle occupants using its Jaguar InControl and Land Rover InControl infotainment systems.
The Jaguar and Land Rover InControl suite of technologies provides vehicle owners with an array of advanced driver assistance systems including emergency response contact as part of the available InControl Remote & Protect system. SiriusXM will provide Jaguar and Land Rover vehicle owners with support for personal safety and security services, including:
Automatic Crash Notification (ACN): Automatically signals a SiriusXM Response Specialist to assist the vehicle’s occupant with notifying emergency responders in the event of an accident, provide the vehicle’s location, and communicate with the vehicle’s occupant until help arrives.
SOS/E-Call: Gives the vehicle’s occupant the ability to contact a SiriusXM Response Specialist via an in-vehicle S.O.S. button during an emergency.
Jaguar Land Rover is expected to introduce InControl to the US market beginning with the delivery of select 2016 model year vehicles. Owners will receive a 4-year subscription to SiriusXM supported safety and security services when purchasing any 2016 model year vehicle equipped with InControl Remote & Protect.
Jagaur launched the new InControl Touch Pro system in the new XF at the New York International Auto Show.
InControl Touch Pro
The all-new Jaguar XF is the first model to feature the equally new InControl Touch Pro infotainment system. At the heart of InControl Touch Pro is a 10.2-inch capacitive touchscreen. There are no buttons on either side, instead, all the functionality has been neatly integrated into the bottom section of the touchscreen.
Like a smartphone, the home screen can be customized; wallpaper can be set to any image, and widgets can be added to provide shortcuts to favorite features. It’s even possible to add extra home screens. The touchscreen also features ‘pinch to zoom’ gestures familiar to all smartphone users.
Map data for InControl Touch Pro is stored on a solid-state drive (SSD) that can be accessed in a fraction of the time taken with conventional hard drive systems. Dead-reckoning functionality, which interprets vehicle data up to 40 times a second, can accurately position the vehicle even when GPS signals can no longer be received.
Utilizing a data connection enables even greater functionality and location-based features and information. The all-new XF offers door-to-door route planning and guidance incorporating public transport options, Commute Mode which learns your daily drive so that it can automatically offer alternative routes to avoid congestion using historical and real-time traffic information, and Approach Mode which shows a 360° interactive view of your destination when you’re approximately 650ft away.
On-board, Gracenote album art stored on the SSD drive enrich the music listening experience while functions such as ‘Play more like this’ make it simpler to access all of your favorite tracks. Adding to the experience, InControl Touch Pro™ includes a 17-speaker, 825W digital surround sound system developed with renowned British audio experts Meridian. The system benefits from the Meridian Trifield and Audyssey’s MultEQ XT technologies which ensure optimum sound reproduction with benchmark low levels of distortion.
The modules which make up InControl Touch Pro are connected using Ethernet. With a bandwidth of up to 1Gbit/ second, Ethernet can handle massive amounts of data, enabling very high infotainment system performance.
Together with a powerful quad-core processor and the solid-state drive, Ethernet allows InControl Touch Pro to deliver smooth graphics and extremely fast response times. These two technologies also ensure that the system’s capability can be further enhanced in the future.
Jaguar InControl Features
Dialing-in to a conference call, booking a hotel room or just catching up with the news, with the optional Jaguar InControl Apps the all-new Jaguar XF ensures that drivers can seamlessly connect Apple and Android smartphones to the vehicle. Via a USB cable and the dedicated port in the center console, InControl App provides access to compatible apps on the device using the vehicle’s touchscreen.
Also compatible with the all-new XF is the new Jaguar InControl Remote, which enables customers to interact with the vehicle using a smartphone. Through the app vehicle owners can bring the cabin to a pre-set temperate by remotely starting the engine, and can check key vehicle data such as fuel tank fill level and door lock status. The app also enables the driver to remotely lock or unlock the car and receive alerts if the alarm sounds, with the option to reset it. A beep and flash feature can help drivers find the vehicle if they’ve forgotten where it was parked or provides a map to lead them to it.
Should the vehicle be involved in a collision severe enough to trigger the airbags, InControl Protect is designed to automatically notify emergency services and provide GPS location of the vehicle. Occupants can also trigger an emergency call manually by pressing a button on the upper console. InControl Protect™ also features a stolen vehicle locator with the service provider using vehicle location obtained via GPS and vehicle details information to locate the vehicle to work with the law enforcement agencies to recover the car as quickly as possible.