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Side Box: Car Connectivity Consortium Type: Consortium Industry: Automotive, Mobile Technology, Consumer Electronics, Automotive Infotainment, Telematics, Software Founded: United States of America Founders: Mika Rytkonen, Alfred Tom Headquarters: Beaverton, OR Area Served: Worldwide Key People: Mika Rytkonen, Chairman and President; Alfred Tom, Chairman of the Ecosystem Work GroupWebsite: www.carconnectivity.org

Overview
Members of the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) are credited with the creation and deployment of MirrorLink™, an embedded technology to sync smartphones with cars and to make smartphone apps accessible via dashboard screens and buttons.

The responsibilities of the CCC include writing technical specifications, building test tools for certifying products, supporting application developers with user-interface guidelines and conferences, and ensuring a trouble-free experience for users through publicity and trademark enforcement.

History
The CCC was founded on February 28, 2011. Since its inception, the CCC has grown to 69 members. These members are among the world’s leading automotive, mobile communications and consumer electronics industry companies representing more than 70 percent of the worldwide market share in vehicles and more than 60 percent of the worldwide market share in smartphones. The CCC unveiled the first official MirrorLink roadmap in September 2011.

MirrorLink
MirrorLink™ is a technology standard that offers safe and seamless connectivity between a smartphone and a car’s infotainment system. Drivers and passengers gain access to smartphone applications through steering wheel controls, dashboard buttons and touch screens.

MirrorLink is based on a set of well-established, non-proprietary technologies such as IP, USB, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Real-Time Protocol (RTP, for audio) and Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). In addition, MirrorLink uses Virtual Network Computing (VNC) to replicate the smartphone display on the navigation screen and to communicate user input back to the handset.

Charter
Alpine, Daimler, General Motors, Honda R&D Co, Ltd., HTC, Hyundai Motor Company, LG Electronics, Nokia, Panasonic, PSA Automotive, Samsung, Toyota, Volkswagen

Core
AISIN AW, BMW AG, Clarion Co. LTD., Delphi, Denso, FIAT GROUP AUTOMOBILES S.p.A, Ford Motor Company, Fujitsu Ten Corporation of America, Ixonos, jambit GmbH, JVC KENWOOD Corporation, KDDI Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Motorola Mobility, Pioneer, QNX Software Systems Ltd., RealVNC Limited, Renault SAS, Renesas Electronics Corporation, Robert Bosch, LLC., Sony Corporation, Sony Ericsson AB, Valeo, ZUKEN ELMIC, Inc.

Adopter
Akita Electronics Systems Co., Ltd, AllGo Embedded Systems, Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Audiovox Electronics Corp., Continental, Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd., Garmin International Inc, HARMAN, Huizhou Desay SV Automotive Co., Ltd., Huizhou Foryou General Electronics Co., Ltd., Hyundai Mobis, Johnson Controls, Inc., KPIT Cummins Infosystems, Ltd., Luxoft, MDS Technology Co., Ltd., MiTAC International Corp., NIPPON SEIKI CO. Ltd., OMRON Software, Qisda Corporation, Shanghai PATEO Electronic Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Shenzhen BYD Auto Co., Ltd, SK Planet Co., Ltd., Skypine Electronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Technisat Digital GmbH, Tokai Rika Co., Ltd., UBIVELOX, Inc., Wipro Limited.

Authorized Testing Labs
MirrorLink™ certification testing must be performed at an Authorized Test Laboratory(ATL). The following laboratories are recognized as CCC ATLs. Vendors wishing to certify products must make arrangements directly with one of the listed ATLs as well as providing the appropriate application documents to the Certification Body. Contact information for the Certification Body is located within the Members Pages.

7Layers Korea Ltd., Allion Test Labs, Inc., CETECOM, National Analysis Center, Inc., TA Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Telecommunication Metrology Center of MIIT, Testronic Laboratories Belgium NV.

Certification Program
MirrorLink™ Certification is based on MirrorLink™ Specification Conformance, client/server interoperability and a review of a series of administrative requirements. Certification is granted to a product of a specific manufacturer, product name, model number and revision number. Any change to the identifying markers of a product renders the product not certified. The CCC does, however, permit product variants or re-labelled products to re-use the Certification test results of similar products. The degree to which results may be re-used is determined by the serving Certification Body.

Only the original device manufacturer (ODM) may apply for Certification. If a product is to be re-labelled or remarketed for use by another member company, the processes contained in the Program Management Document must be followed.

While only end products are granted CCC Certification it is possible to collect and reuse Certification Test Results for software stacks, modules or other partial implementations. The same overall processes are followed for these partial implementations, but no claims of CCC Certification may be made in these cases. When these partial implementations are used in end products, the party responsible for the end product must clarify with the Certification Body the nature of the integration. The Certification Body will make the final determination on the partial or total reuse of partial implementation test results. The reuse of results will follow the principles of Section 9.13 and 9.14 of the Program Management Document.