Automotive Content and
App Service Platform for
Connected Car Infotainment

ACCESS Twine™ for Car (Twine4Car) is a white label in-car app store and content solution for next level in-vehicle-infotainment.

ACCESS Twine™ for Car (Twine4Car) enables automotive OEMs and Tier1s to provide flexible entertainment services including video, audio and games on the car head unit, RSE and BYOD. Twine4Car is a flexible In-Vehicle-Infotainment solution that will work in combination with multiple in-car OS including Android, Linux and QNX-based systems. Twine4Car spans the gap between the automotive and the content industries by enabling an extensive content portfolio for global use and helps provide a great user experience for drivers and passengers.

2 Key Characteristics

01 Enabling automotive OEMs to provide branded entertainment services

Twine4Car allows OEMs to start with the services they wish to deploy today and add new services over time as the industry moves towards the various levels of autonomous driving.

02 Creating successful multi-device in-car platforms

Twine4Car connects the in-car infotainment system components seamlessly with BYOD devices via the in-car Wi-Fi network. It provides a decentralized control of content that enables a multi-device user experience far beyond common single device streaming applications or screen mirroring technologies. A key value is that ACCESS Twine™ for Car fully supports the OEM’s brand experience across all devices.

Highlights & Advantages


Global Content Video and Audio content for global use	Full App Store A wide selection of in-car apps in a white-label store	Flexible technology OS-agnostic for HU, RSE and BYOD use

Providing a global portfolio of content and a wide range of apps

Audio | Apps | VOD Video on demand | Live TV | Catch-up TV

Twine4Car entails and app store including favorite apps and VOD services for multiple markets. Reach out to discuss our full app store portfolio. Additional content can be displayed in the OEM look and feel and be integrated via standard APIs. This includes Video on Demand, linear TV streams and popular audio streaming services.

Twine4Car app store

Content Partners

ACCESS is collaborating with the leaders of the Global Digital Content Industry

Next Generation Passenger UX

User Experience

Twine4Car provides automotive OEMs with new options to stretch their digital brand engagement and move beyond driver focused audio-only services. ACCESS will help to shape an in-car experience designed to make the lives of drivers and passengers simpler and more fulfilling.

By developing user-centric, advanced media capabilities to the car, ACCESS and the OEM will continue create the automotive UX of the future. With Twine4Car every passenger can experience different content, providing an aggregated, yet personal, journey experience.

Twine4Car IVI solution

Technology: A portfolio of technology components

Modular in-vehicle product suite with components

ACCESS Twine4Car includes a portfolio of technology components to enable automotive OEMs to deliver the services they require today and extend to new services in the future.

head unit (Linux and Android)
rear-seat entertainment (Linux and Android)
smartphones (Android and iOS)
tablets (Android and iOS)

Additionally, Twine4Car includes cloud-hosted components for operations and business support services (OSS/BSS) to help automotive OEMs build and refine the entertainment packages that suit their customers, log usage information, register in-car devices, and more.

Key in-car features

automatic discovery of Twine enabled devices in the in-car Wi-Fi
aggregated indexing of content across devices
media playback on in-car devices
- “push” from driver to passengers
- “pull” from passengers
  - passenger can initiate playback of content
  - passenger can control playback
- “follow me” functionality
  - content can be paused on one device and continued on another
remote control from BYOD devices
universal search
- quickly find content on any device in the vehicle, and even on enabled cloud based content services
HMI development framework
in-car advertising (VAST / VMAP)
Android app support

Automotive Service Platform

Software components
- Head Unit
- RSE / RSI
- BYOD
Operating systems & platforms
- Linux, Android, iOS, RTOS
Services and applications
- Location Based
- Content Based
- HTML5
- Android
Cloud components:
- Management Service
- Content Service
- Data Service
- OSS / BSS integration

White label streaming service

Automotive focused streaming service
- Worldwide content availability
- Tailored content portfolio
Services supported
- Linear radio
- Linear TV
- Music streaming
- Video-on-demand
- Catch-up TV services

OEM Partners

ACCESS is proud to work with some of the largest OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers.

ACCESS is connecting media and multiscreen

ACCESS are experts in delivering connected media and multiscreen components, with over 20 years of experience in the automotive and media consumer electronics industries, making us ideally placed to bridge the gap between the media industry and the automotive market.

Our knowledge and experience enables OEMs to launch the entertainment services their customers are asking for, maintaining brand engagement by offering a truly multi-device experience compared to mobile device screen sharing solutions. With offices worldwide, we offer global coverage and multi-language support for OEMs and Tier-1s.

Automotive Content and App Service Platform for Connected Car Infotainment