BMW Group’s new venture BMW Labs portal, which went online yesterday, allows customers the chance to test in advance new services still under development and therefore play an active role
in helping to shape the Group’s ConnectedDrive services. The first ConnectedDrive option to be made available via BMW Labs is the integration of the IFTTT (IF This Then That) service into BMW
vehicles. IFTTT is a free-of-charge service which allows web applications and intelligent devices on the Internet of Things to be linked together. Users can create statements known as
“Recipes”, which allow them free rein to combine “Triggers” with associated “Actions”. Users can select from over 260 different services, such as Twitter, Facebook,
Google Drive, e-mail and SMS, and also connect with intelligent smart-home devices from the likes of Hue, Nest and Netatmo. IFTTT Recipes allow users to link up their car with these services as
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