Mercedes-Benz has announced a partnership with Pebble to integrate its
smartwatch with Mercedes vehicles to provide enhanced vehicle diagnostic
awareness and multisensory notifications.
The partnership gives
Mercedes-Benz early access to some of the newest hardware and early
releases of application programming interfaces (APIs) offered by the
Silicon Valley-based company.
At its CES booth, Mercedes-Benz
will demonstrate how an intelligently networked vehicle becomes a part
of the "internet of things" - and what benefits this can have for the
customer. For this proof of concept, the developers at Mercedes have
reinvented the Digital DriveStyle app in order to allow it to
communicate with Pebble smart watches.
Pebble's smart watch
acts as a "second screen" for your smartphone. This revolutionary
wearable device unlocks some interesting features for the connected car.
For example, when away from their vehicle, Mercedes-Benz drivers can
review important vehicle information at a glance like fuel level,
door-lock status, and vehicle location using their Pebble smart watch,
even when they are outside the vehicle. When hopping into their car, the
companion Pebble smart watch app magically transforms, alerting its
driver to real-time hazards through V2V technology like accidents, road
construction, or stalled vehicles by vibrating the watch. On top of
this, users pairing their Pebble smart watch can customize the three
watch buttons to activate their favourite Digital DriveStyle features
like reporting hazards, auto-routing, Siri activation,
remote-controlling media, or quickly showing nearby traffic conditions.
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