The Gartner report predicts that by 2020 there will be 25 million interconnected cars on the road in the world, and that the smartest connected cars will promote the development of new on-board services and autonomous driving functions.
However, what is a real smart car? Smart should be a living thing, it will grow.This is Tesla's cleverness, it first set off, the software update OTA way.Tesla Becoming the automotive company that has most thoroughly and benefited from implementing the OTA strategy in the field of emerging automobile manufacturers and entered the country in 2014. After its entry into China in 2014, the ModelS series of vehicles have been successively iterated through eight major version upgrades each time through OTA technology All bring new experience for customers.
Adam Jonas, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, even believes that the main reason that traditional cars get outdated is that they can not compete with Tesla's OTA software upgrade. Tesla's new software upgrade allows us to glimpse The future of the automotive industry. '
A positive signal is that in the last year or so more and more traditional car makers are beginning to accept such innovations.One of the major car manufacturers such as Toyota, Volkswagen, Ford, Volvo and General Motors publicly announced their OTA technologies Strategic Plan.
'OTA is an intelligent and viable manifestation of the future of all smart devices need this capability, which will be a great market size.' Ai Laibin Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. Rui Nanan, president of automotive electronics applications, said 'from the car Industry development point of view, OTA air upgrade service is the development trend of all car manufacturers.
On December 7, the ABUP brand was officially released. Irirai President Rui Annan explained that 'ABUP' means 'A, B update'. "First of all, we need to do a safe upgrade, A / B from the technology At the level of view, this is a seamless upgrade experience through the AB partition upgrade. When the upgrade is successful, the system automatically switches seamlessly. When the upgrade is unsuccessful, the system remains silent and does not upgrade. To ensure that even if the upgrade is unsuccessful, but it will never fail to cause the system to crash.Furthermore, we have to do smart upgrade, A / B from another level is the combination of Ai + Bigdata, Ibrahimovic and Internet of Things OTA upgrade technology is based on the big data business is based on the 'Rui Yan Nan said.
With the development of smart cars, the demand for the OTA upgrade will become even more urgent, and more and more car companies are beginning to get involved in OTA. "Ebola focuses on OTA technical service support for customers in the automotive and IoT areas We want to make our service better by focusing and focusing, and the market is now maturing, "Rui Nan said.
ECRI learned that Orabia's OTA upgrade solution is based on experience gained from working with OEMs and Tier1 suppliers, and has clear requirements such as requirements definition, architecture, process definition, development and implementation, test and verification The implementation of process planning can provide OEMs with a complete set of OTA system solutions from cloud OTA management platform, secure wireless pipelines connection, to upgrading of automotive products.
Recently, automotive electronics applications interview with Shanghai Ai Laibi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. Rui Nan, president, he explained in detail for us the current status of the development of domestic automotive OTA and intelligent network of cars next year's development trend.
What is the value and importance of OTA to the car enterprises? OTA as the standard feature of the future smart car, how to promote the development of smart cars?
Rui Nan: At present, the automotive market has entered a mature period, there is no doubt that the intelligent car is the future direction of development.Whether car networking or the Internet of Things, is now not a hot topic, but we must do the direction of intelligent. There can be no ability to upgrade the iteration, just like our slogan, "No upgrade is not smart." If a device does not have its own ability to upgrade the iteration, we do not think it is a real smart device.So from the market size Look, I think the future of all smart devices just like the current cell phone, if there are smart devices after a few months can not receive the upgrade package, we will complain, why not upgrade these two months, others to 8.0 You are still 7. My device is lagging behind other product experience so I think the market demand is accelerating the development of this industry.Of course, the value and importance of OTA for the car is not Paraphrasing
Currently OTA upgrade in the car's deployment which need to break the problem?
Rui Nan: There are many key points for OTA, first OTA is a complete system, not just the cloud thing, but contains the cloud, communication side, the car side of these three things. So it needs OTA service providers must have a In the cloud, Ibrahimovic provides automotive OTA management platform, the platform must be privatized deployed in the depot of the server above.This platform in the future we mainly want to privatize customized development capabilities, according to the different depot Needs to be developed.At the same time inside the OTA in addition to its own functions, but also with the depot management and workflow.Because it involved in the small batch, different grayscale upgrade release, for the car is a different workflow , Tasks and people management, need to be customized, and with the original vehicle management system to get through.
In addition to this part of the cloud platform, but also the communication protocol level. Cloud and the vehicle between the instructions of the interface and protocol development, different depots will have different appeals .Elrabi can either support OEMs privatization custom agreement requirements, Provides OMA-based protocols.
Car side, you also need to upgrade the system.When the internal upgrade in the car as the main body, who is auxiliary, the entire upgrade process should be what is the definition, but also to some of the key nodes, to provide the ability to upgrade smart devices now The more it is, but not suitable for the whole package upgrade program.As an intelligent system, the whole package upgrade package has been G, in this way, the entire flow, time, user experience, Relatively speaking, will be relatively less, so we now have to give the car's key nodes to provide product upgrades through the cloud, communications, the car constitutes a complete system, mainly the three parts.
Each of these three sections will face the challenge of customization. The cloud part, first, is both a cloud tool and a cloud management system. When it comes to management, it involves the workflow, roles, personnel management, so here Involving a lot of needs analysis and customization.At the same time OTA management platform does not exist independently, such as with the car information security platform, vehicle management system to get through the core, so as to play its due role.Therefore, the cloud The challenge is here.
The major customization challenges at the vehicle end came from the development of automotive-side OTA functionality. The development of the vehicle-side OTA was not defined solely by our OTA service providers and depots, but by the equipment suppliers, so the entire vehicle end It is also very important for the division of labor, coordination and control of the entire project during the construction of the upgrade system and upgrade capability, which involves the experience in the industry, the feasibility of the program plan, the customization capability, the service responsiveness Time and other factors.Most of the most important, we must ensure that decision-making team and R & D team in the project to communicate with all parties and decision-making efficiency, which is our relative advantage of some peers.
Car OTA upgrade must not affect the safe driving of the vehicle, El Rubi in the specific aspects of information security to achieve?
Rui Nan: From the OTA basic process of security protection, mainly includes the upgrade package encryption and signature, server-side upgrade package for secure storage, based on authentication to establish a secure link channel, and vehicle-side information security protection, the upgrade package We will work with the OEM to define a clear information security architecture and upgrade process, and finally, through professional third-party penetration testing to verify OTA's information security capabilities to achieve the predetermined level of protection.
In order to be able to better serve the depot, in October of this year, we jointly released the overall solution of 'Cybersecurity Concept Car' with a number of manufacturers such as 360 Automotive Safety Laboratory, Kyrgyzstan Ching-yuan, United Automotive Electronic Co., Ltd. For OEM's future autonomy Different security vendor's choice, we will customize the adaptation, and service experience to ensure the efficiency of adaptation.
At present, what are the manufacturers that Elraby has been cooperating with and what are the major cooperation modes?
Rui Nanan: Currently, we divided the partners into three types: first is the chip maker, they are the basic program providers, we form a strategic cooperation with them to ensure stable and reliable upgrade capabilities at the chip level.
The second is a solution vendor or a module vendor, and we work with many solution and module vendors both as a customer and as a strategic partnership. They also use our OTA services and also extend our solutions and services to their customers .
There is a third type is the brand manufacturers, we provide professional OTA services for brand manufacturers, so that they can achieve efficient product software life-cycle management, and can be based on their needs to upgrade their product software.
How to view the current development status of the car network? Please talk about your car networking future thinking and views.
Rui Nan: On the current status of car networking, we found that the first step, we solve the problem of networking, how to move the experience of the Internet to the car.Second, many car manufacturers will be invariably choose OTA basic upgrade capabilities and diagnostic Platform, called infrastructure construction and security. Security, OTA, diagnosis, first do some based on the bottom of the network, and the future development goals to make the interface, first lay the foundation, so basically in 2018 will do such a plan. The third step, many depot planning, to 2019 to introduce more advanced auxiliary driving module, mainly to assist driving as the core, to promote intelligent driving technology.
We are pleased to see that more and more OEMs are talking about OTA. OTA has become one of the cornerstones of future strategic planning for the OEMs. 2015 and 2016 have been a long waiting period for many OEMs to settle their own problems Car networking, because the first car network can not be solved, not to mention OTA. From our point of view, all depots have their own intelligence network linked to the development strategy, and OTA is the basis for this strategy can be foreseen in the future Six months to a year there will be more and more OEMs consider building their own OTA system, there will be a period of intensive demand outbreak.