HMIs developed with HTML5 reside in a high-level, virtualized environment but often need to access hardware. Writing specific interfaces to communicate between the HMI and each low-level service is costly. A better approach is to use an HMI-agnostic messaging model such as Persistent Publish/Subscribe (PPS). PPS provides a simple and effective way for the HMI to communicate with low-level components and the vehicle hardware.
Kerry Johnson is a Product Manager at QNX, which he joined in 2005. Before joining QNX, Kerry worked in similar capacities — as Product Manager or as Director of Product Management — in a number of technology companies, including Research In Motion, Innovance, Nortel, and Cambrian Networks. Kerry Johnson studied at the University of Regina.
Andy Gryc [Grits] has been a software developer and designer for over 20 years, and is currently a senior product marketing manager at QNX. Prior to joining QNX Software Systems, he worked as the lead embedded software architect for GM OnStar; designed and implemented a speech recognition engine for a speech technology company; and served as a member of the Hewlett-Packard team that created the software for palmtops and the BIOS for the Omnibook notebooks. As well a contributing regularly to the QNX whitepaper and webinar programs, Andy writes a blog, True Gryc, "about the automotive market, the embedded industry, being an honorary Canadian, and any other stray neuron that happens to fire". He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, and, as his blog blurb states, has recently moved to QNX headquarters in Canada.
06/01/12
Kerry Johnson
Andy Gryc