Kia UVO
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| Original author(s) | Kia Motors America |
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| Developer(s) | Kia Motors America |
| Initial release | January 2011 |
| Development status | Active |
| Available in | English, French, Spanish |
| Type | Telematics |
| License | Proprietary commercial software |
| Website | www |
UVO eServices is a subscription free OEM infotainment and telematics service offered by Kia Motors America on select vehicles for the United States market. The system allows users to make hands-free calls on their smartphone, stream music, navigate to a POI, and perform vehicle diagnostics with the use of voice commands.
The integrated in-vehicle communications and entertainment system is developed by Kia Motors and other third-party developers.
First launched in the 2011 model year, Kia’s UVO entertainment system controls available HD radio, CD player, and built-in digital jukebox. The system also interfaces with Bluetooth-enabled phones and utilizes touchscreen and voice command technology.
The UVO system is driven by vehicle communications with a smartphone application. Data transfers from the vehicle to the smartphone application utilize the customer’s mobile carrier resulting in a subscription-free telematics service. Users of this system are able to interact with their vehicle to retrieve Diagnostic Trouble Codes. Users can also load a Point of interest to the vehicle's Head unit. Other technologies like GPS and IVR are also integrated in this system.
Users are able to access the vehicle data on the smartphone application and through a customer web portal. In the 2015 model year, select vehicles launched with an Android-based operating platform to allow flexibility to integrate 3rd party applications. Certain vehicles 2014 or later have USB connectivity and certain vehicle 2015 or later have Wi-fi connectivity.
The below table provides a short description of UVO eServices features. Feature availability depends on model and model year.
Beginning with the 2015 Optima the UVO eServices with 8" Nav system allows users to download applications from the UVO Download Center for in-vehicle use via the headunit. Currently Yelp is available in the UVO Download Center.
Beginning with 2015 Optima the UVO eServices with 8" Nav system allows users to connect the vehicle headunit to a WiFi hotspot. Once connected to WiFi, most vehicles can access Google Local Search via a button on the steering wheel to search for POIs via Voice Recognition. 2015 UVO eServices with 8" Nav system also supports Siri Eyes Free which allows users to access Siri via a button on the steering wheel for supported Apple devices.
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