Roland Krause

Roland is Director of Engineering for Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS). Roland has over ten years experience in architecture and design of large scale embedded software projects and he manages a global team of Qt engineers.

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Media Manager for Automotive Infotainment (Part 4)

Monday, May 2, 2016 - 10:33 • By Roland Krause • automotive IVI, Media Manager, Qt

In this blog post, we will explain the core architecture of the media manager.

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Automotive IVI Media Manager Announcements

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 14:33 • By Roland Krause • IVI, Open Source, Automotive, Media Manager, development

Look no further when looking to build a media manager for automotive IVI...ICS just released open source code and all of our events around our Media Manager. Read more and download the code!

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Media Manager for Automotive Infotainment (Part 2)

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 16:06 • By Roland Krause • IVI, Automotive, Qt, Media Manager

In this blog post, we will show how to address some of the challenges when multiple users bring devices into the car.

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A Media Manager for Automotive Infotainment (Part 1)

Monday, March 14, 2016 - 14:51 • By Roland Krause • IVI, Qt, Media Manager, automotive IVI

We came up with an interesting architecture that addresses many of the vexing issues with existing IVI solutions.

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QNX Powers Ford's Next Connected Automotive Infotainment System, Sync 3

Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 15:22 • By Roland Krause • IVI, QNX, Infotainment Systems, In-vehicle infotainment

Congratulations to our friends at QNX for powering Ford's next Connected Car System, Sync 3. Given that Qt is the standard GUI toolkit for QNX, I suspect that this means that Qt will soon become the de facto standard for IVI System development as well. Read more about this in the articles below: Ford drops Microsoft and revamps its Sync system for more speed - Engadget

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Qt Contributors Summit 2013 Recap

Monday, July 22, 2013 - 11:57 • By Roland Krause •

This year's Qt Contributors Summit was held in conjunction with KDE Akademy in Bilbao, Spain. The event was well attended by engineers from many diverse organizations that share a vital interest in the ongoing development of the Qt libraries.

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