As the development of intelligent cars continues, the voice of software-defined cars has gradually become mainstream in the industry. Therefore, software solutions such as intelligent interconnection and autonomous driving have also received unprecedented attention in the industry.
According to a survey by McKinsey & Company, software currently accounts for 10% of the total vehicle value and is expected to grow at a rate of 11% per year, reaching 30% of the total vehicle value by 2030.
So, at the Shanghai Auto Show, I attended a media briefing by Elektrobit, a global supplier specializing in embedded and connected automotive software products.
Elektrobit, in the software field, mainly offers vehicle basic software, autonomous driving, connected cars, and HMI human-machine interaction products.
Among them, in terms of basic software, EB XELOR is their latest vehicle infrastructure software. They iterate on this architecture throughout the entire vehicle lifecycle. At the same time, Elektrobit also mentioned that they are very clear that, because they focus on vehicle-level software, they attach great importance to function and information security, which is very different from consumer-level software.
In addition, Elektrobit also mentioned that as various automakers increase their investment in autonomous driving, many testing and verification, including the significant rise of the demand of corresponding software modules. Information security is still a point of great concern for them. They have consulted domestic automakers on information security before.
Among them, they also mentioned that whether it is to add a few firewalls to the ECU, deploy an intrusion detection system on the gateway, or deploy an encryption system to ensure that the communication between ECUs is encrypted, EB has solutions in this area.
Regarding HMI, with AR HUD gradually entering the vision of vehicle manufacturers, they are also contacting several major automakers for AR HUD projects this year.
Finally, EB also mentioned that for some special software or software that needs to be customized, if OEM or Tier1 say that they do not want to do it, they hope that software suppliers can do it, and they can do it. But if they want to do it themselves, there is no problem with EB because all of their software modules are decoupled.
_🔗Information Source: EB booth at the Shanghai Auto Show
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