Future Connected Cars USA

Events

Sasken is proud to have been a Silver Sponsor for the Future Connected Cars USA event held in Santa Clara from May 10th to 12th. At the event, which is co-located with IoT World and Apps World, Sasken showcased its latest Telematics solution built on high-end Renesas processor. This was coupled with a display of our latest LTE Wi-Fi hotspot device. Our experts also demonstrated Sasken’s IoT platform and our expertise in wearables with trace and tracking devices. In his thought leadership session, Ashwin Ramachandra, VP and Head, ER&D practice addressed an audience over a 100 decision makers from various tier-1s and OEMs on the topic “Productization challenges in the Telematics System”.

To know more about Sasken’s representation at the event, please write to Ripunjay Nayak, ripunjay.nayak@sasken.com

Solutions Demonstrated

Key Takeaways from Speaker session

Sasken Telematics solution built on a high-end Renesas processor (R-Car M2)/GENIVI standards based platform was showcased as accelerator for Tier-1s, IoT customers
Advantages of the solution include reduced hardware costs as the TCU shares the hardware resources with other functions like IVI
Sasken IoT platform, trace and tracking devices, and LTE Wi-Fi hotspot device
Turnkey product design and development solution for the Inmarsat PLC’s IsatPhone 2 covering software, hardware, mechanical design, system integration, and complete testing
Productized development of IT services from IT Infrastructure management to mobile-centric architecture, analytics, and enterprise mobile applications

Some challenges include silos getting merged and resulting in real-time, on-demand services like Spotify and Connected Diagnostics among others
Companies can tide over these challenges by:
- Addressing challenges of complex modern Telematics units, understanding antenna design, and asymmetric signal gain
- Focusing on ensuring quality with 3GPP Compliance/Seamless handover and implications of downloadable apps in terms of vehicle security, frequent software updates, and liabilities
- Usage of SoC that has integrated connectivity modules to optimize on qualification costs
- Virtualization – Use of Type1/Type2 hypervisor to re-use hardware resources
- Integration and validation with various eCall standards