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Introducing MN Auto™

Leveraging consumer product efficiencies in automotive navigation

At NAVIGON, our portfolio of work reflects our commitment to create boldly innovative navigation products and solutions across automotive, consumer electronics, and wireless realms-and to lead the charge toward their convergence. NAVIGON has been a leader in navigation since 1991. We have consistently pioneered advancements that have helped make the category what it is today.

Now, with MN Auto™, we are driving the advances and nimbleness that characterize today's consumer navigation devices into automotive-grade solutions.

MN Auto™ draws from a decade of history in the automotive and consumers realm to solve these issues. MN Auto™ is an SDK that delivers flexibility, increases speed to market, ensures product relevance, and increases efficiencies. With MN Auto™, your team will be able to adapt, expand, and upgrade navigation offerings-for generations to come. MN Auto™ can adapt as your business and your product evolve, from platform to platform and model year to model year.

Historically, the automotive realm of navigation has struggled with:

  • Long lead times
  • Inflexible and hard-to-update technology that must endure over the lifespan of a car
  • Slower pace of innovation compared to consumer electronics navigation
  • High development costs and high prices

NAVIGON is tackling the mentioned problems with its unique Software product MN Auto™, creating maximum synergies with automotive experience and PND leadership:





MN Auto™ SDK Architecture






Core offering

  • Multi-supplier databases (e.g., Navteq or TeleAtlas)
  • Core navigation database size of 2GB on SD cards or HDD
  • Seamless map coverage expandable by country
  • Global map coverage roadmap, including China
  • Vehicle positioning supporting dead-reckoning and flexible sensor configuration
  • Real time Traffic engine supporting Pay TMC
  • Intelligent typewriter including "fuzzy search" with multi-language support
  • 3rd Party POIs support
  • Quick time to first advice & route guidance
  • Lane guidance, schematic view and Reality View
  • Smooth scrolling and appealing map design including Birds-Eye View
  • OpenGL compatibility for graphic acceleration processors
  • Support of automotive screen sizes
  • Support of ADAS and other safety features
  • Portable to major embedded OS
  • Voice guidance audio path connector including TTS and ASR support
Download: Introducing MN Auto™