The American software company Microsoft is preparing to enter the smart car sector, like many of its competitors, but instead of establishing a new division for the auto industry, Microsoft decided to partner with Toyota, the largest auto production company in the world.
Microsoft said in a statement on its blog that it had partnered with Toyota to create "a world where cars are huge smartphones driven by you, with a virtual personal assistant who knows the best paths to behave and who alerts when he finds that crowding may cause you to delay a meeting."
She added that Toyota announced today, Tuesday, the creation of a new company named "Toyota Connected" to serve as a data center for the auto industry as it seeks to connect cars to people's daily lives, noting that its cloud computing platform "Windows Azure" will provide hybrid solutions to everything that Toyota makes. Connected "to make driving more personal, more intuitive and safer.
Microsoft said that Toyota aims, through the new company, to expand its capabilities to a large extent by building on the existing partnership with Microsoft.
The new company, based in Plano, Texas, will be managed by the current head of the IT department at Toyota Motor - North America Zack Hicks, and his mission will focus on unifying Toyota's initiatives in data center management, data analysis and data-driven service development.
For his part, Hicks said that "Toyota Connected" will evaluate and develop a myriad of technologies, such as the steering wheel monitoring the driver's heart rate and breathing, while the seat turns into a balance that provides continuous health monitoring in a manner very similar to what you do now Smart wearable devices.
He added that the car system can communicate with other cars to find out if there is traffic jams awaiting them, and then inform the organizers of the meeting that the driver may be going to him by email to know that he will be late.
Microsoft indicated that it will work with Toyota Connected to provide continuous engineering support through a wide range of data and mobile software analytics, noting that the new company will initially provide its products and services in North American markets, and then it will expand into other Toyota markets.
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