iGO primo

Simply Advanced Navigation

iGO primo®, the flagship OEM product in the iGO Navigation range combines simplicity of use with the most recent technological advances in features and functionality.

Main Features

State-of-the-art intuitive UI
Truck features
Latest Map Guarantee
Connected features

Intuitive features
Fleet and mobile resource management
HD 3D Visual Experience

Detailed features

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Intuitive features

Congestion detour
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Congestion detour

Based on the slowdown of the car, the congestion detour feature recognizes traffic jams on the highway — even if they are not indicated by the traffic service. It immediately calculates detours and gives hints, instead of blindly continuing according to the original plan.
Real-time route alternatives
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Real-time route alternatives

Taking advantage of crossroads, real-time route alternatives are given if the car approaches an inner-city junction too slowly, and the driver sees that the planned route is affected by congestion. (This feature is switched off by default.)
Hints upon detour
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Hints upon detour

When a driver suddenly leaves the highway – which can be either to avoid something ahead or to stop for something in the neighborhood (fuel station, rest area, restaurant, etc.) – the software tries to find out the reason for doing so, instead of forcing the driver back on the planned route. The hints upon detour feature provides appropriate hints in an unobtrusive way.
Parking around destination
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Parking around destination

It offers assistance in finding a parking place as the driver approaches the destination. Our software not only shows parking places in the neighborhood, but also ranks them in order of the optimum distance from the destination.

Visualization

High Definition Terrain Visualization
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High Definition Terrain Visualization
- Stunning visual experience
- Dramatically enhanced rendering of distant terrain
- HW accelerator and full software rendering support
Additional Visualization Highlights
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Additional Visualization Highlights
- Unparalleled true 3D visualization:
  - 3D junctions – for rapid understanding of the next maneuver
  - digital terrain – to give a 3D sense of space
  - 3D landmarks and city models – for easier orientation
- Country specific road shields
  - matches what you see on the screen with what you see on the road
- Free camera movements
  - to explore the map
- Selectable 3D car models
  - watch your favorite model drive on the screen
Breadcrumb Trail
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Breadcrumb Trail
- At lower speeds the GPS heading is not accurate.
- Breadcrumb trail gives a sense of direction in pedestrian mode

Destination search

Smart Keyboard
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Smart Keyboard
- Grays out invalid characters
- Offers the most likely matches based on previously used destinations and on city population sizes
- Greatly speeds up address entry
Smart History
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Smart History
- Learns the user’s behavior
- First few items ranked based on:
  - Date and time
  - Previous routes
  - Current position
- Rest of the list is a chronological history
Point Addressing
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Point Addressing
- Addresses (along with entry points) stored individually in map file (instead of by street-segment based interpolation)
- Vital in: Russia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria
- Additional info in separate content files (.FPA)
The SW feature is included in the base product, but requires additional content and content license.
Picture Navigation
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Picture Navigation
- Pick a picture, and set it as destination
- Requires geotagged pictures
Additional Search Highlights
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Additional Search Highlights
- Find on Map
- Wizard-style POI search
- Search around destination & along route
- Search by streetname within a US/ AUS state
- ZIP/postcode handling for UK / BRA / NL
- Unlimited number of favorites
- Show real POI distance (on-road, not as the crow flies)

Routing

Historical speed
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Smart Routes
- Chooses the best route based on day of week and time of day
- Considers past speed patterns
- Utilizes
  - Traffic patterns (Navteq)
  - Speed Profiles (Tele Atlas)
- The additional info is in separate content files (.HSP and .FSP)
The SW feature is included in the base product, but requires additional content and content license.
Green Routing
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Green Routing
- Slightly longer travel time than with „Fast”, but significantly reduced fuel consumption and CO2 emission.
- Estimates fuel consumption based on standardized rural and urban consumption (to be entered by user) and anticipated travel speed.
The estimates are for orientation purposes only and are not accurate since not all factors can be taken into account.
Time Sense
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Time Sense
- Supports time-related info
- Examples:
  - reduced speed during night time
  - road closed at weekends
  - road closed for reconstruction
- The extra info is embedded in the map content
- No extra license required
Quick Planning
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Quick Planning
- Dramatically cuts calculation time for extremely long routes
The feature is part of the base product, but the content is optional; requires extra storage.
Real route alternatives
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Real route alternatives
- Multiple route variants calculated simultaneously
- A number of „sufficiently different” alternatives calculated with the preferred method (fast, green, …), plus routes calculated with the other methods.
Additional Routing Highlights
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Additional Routing Highlights
- Seamless navigation across borders & maps
- Multiple vehicle types (taxi, emergency, bicycle, bus, pedestrian)
- Route type avoidance (highways, toll routes, unpaved routes, ferries, HOV lanes, areas requiring special permits)
- Avoidance of specific roads, avoid route ahead
- Auto recalculation when leaving route
- Route overview

Guidance

Real Junctions
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Real Junctions
- Shows realistic images of junctions
Matching guidance and reality reassures the driver
Navteq and NNG Global contents are supported. Separate license required
Tunnel view
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Tunnel view

Shows the inside of a tunnel in order not to disturb the driver with irrelevant details, such as roads and elevation on the surface.
Lane Guidance and Real Signposts
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Lane Guidance and Real Signposts
- Lane guidance helps the driver to get in the right lane well before the upcoming maneuver
- Country specific signposts matching the real ones reassure the driver
Driver Alerts
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Driver Alerts
- Provides additional info (road signs) for the driver and thus enhances safety
- Country specific alert sign icons
  - Drivers can follow country specific alert signs
  - Alert drivers of upcoming dangerous driving situations or those regulations that need special attention
  - Enhances safety
Proximity Alerts
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Proximity Alerts
- e.g. School zone, railway crossing
The SW feature is included in the base product, but requires additional content and content license.
Additional Guidance Highlights
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Additional Guidance Highlights
- Icons of the next 2 maneuvers
- Real maneuver icon (roundabout)
- Safety camera alerts
- Speed warning
- Visual warnings for maneuver restrictions
- Warning for Pedestrian mode at high speed
Support for 4WD routing (Australia)
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Support for 4WD routing (Australia)

Unsealed roads in Australia
Voice Guidance
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Voice Guidance
- Prerecorded voice guidance available in 40 languages (male and female)
TTS Pro
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TTS Pro – Advanced Text to Speech
- announcement of road names supported by Loquendo or Nuance engine
- Reading out traffic events
- Natural guidance: referring to traffic lights, petrol stations*
- Vocal route summary after route planning
- Vocal country info after border crossing

Traffic

Visualization of the direction of traffic events
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Visualization of the direction of traffic events

Clearly marks the direction on the road (next to the affected lanes) where a traffic event happened.
Traffic
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Traffic
- RDS TMC traffic
- Background calculation of route alternatives in case of traffic events affecting the route.
- Automatic and manual rerouting modes.
- Alternative visualization to highlight traffic.

User interface and workflow

Design objectives
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Design objectives
- Designed for simple operation and intuitiveness
- Focus on safety – user never forced (nor encouraged) to touch the display while driving
- Hiding complexity – advanced features never in the way when performing basic operations
- Uncluttered screens
User-configurable
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User-configurable
- Quick menu
- Map screen, including data fields
Convenience Features
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Convenience Features
- Trip summary when reaching destination
- “Back to car” marking the position of the car (when the device is detached from the power supply)

Additional features

Driver profiles
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Driver profiles

Personalized settings can be saved for multiple users.
Outdoor Features
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Outdoor Features
- Satellite imagery
  - On 2D and 3d maps alike
  - High quality aerial photos of major cities in Europe and North America.
- Off-road (point-to-point) navigation
Application suite
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Application suite
- Rich set of additional applications (unit, clothing size converter, calculator, etc.)
- Applications are integrated into navigation – no need to manually start navigation at startup
Localization
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Localization
- Global coverage
  - 43 UI languages supported
  - 40+ voice guidance languages supported
- Multi language countries compiled into a single map file
- Exonym support
- Non-latin characters: Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai
Truck Navigation
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Truck Navigation
- Supports the premium segment of professional drivers
Requires Separate License
SLAPI 1.2 for fleet management
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SLAPI 1.2 for fleet management
- Simple Location API (SLAPI) is a light-weight programming interface
- SLAPI 1.2 offers much wider set of features than previous SLAPI versions
- Suitable for simple, quick and dirty applications or even full fledged fleet management solutions.
User Speedcams
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User Speedcams

Users can record speedcams and create their own database
Branding and customization
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Branding and customization
- Multiple levels of branding / customization
- Geographically exclusive skins for differentiation
Miscellaneous Application Features
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Miscellaneous Application Features
- Trip computer
- Call POIs
- Track log with speed and elevation profile
- Export tracks to Google Earth
- Where am I?
- Rich POIs
- Import POI form KML
- Clickable POIs
- Itinerary, 4 levels of detail
- Route simulation
- Industry–best map compression