Connectivity

How Commsignia could be poised to take advantage of new Government initiatives.

Automotive just-in-time sourcing strategy at odds with how semiconductor industry works, Roland Berger analyst says.

Pulse Labs acquires data through cameras (mounted to windshield in this case) configured at key vantage points within the automotive cabin, augmenting this data with cameras that capture the environment outside the car and telematics data from the car itself. These data sources are combined and analyzed using proprietary machine learning models that identify and classify activities of interest. Google and Amazon are both investors and clients. Bezos Expeditions, billionaire Jeff Bezos’s family investment fund, also is among the company’s investors. OEM clients include Polestar and Volvo. 

iGO.Live is a software suite that adds more advanced features on top of standard embedded navigation.

Use of Android Automotive made it relatively easy and inexpensive to add WirelessCar’s Journey Log to the Polestar 2 battery-electric vehicle. And that may signal the start of a new, faster, more flexible infotainment approach for the auto industry.

The growth of electric vehicles and environmental concerns worldwide is creating demand for more sustainable interior materials that occupants can see and touch.

Valens is the first with a chipset geared to the MIPI Alliance’s new high-speed connectivity standard. It is designed to work with camera, radar and lidar sensors, reducing costs, speeding development and opening the door to centralized computing.

Rapidly changing customer demand, unprecedented labor shortages, and international supply chain issues are causing disruption in automotive. Additionally, the rapid developments in robotics, advanced analytics, machine learning and machine vision, as well as AI, are accelerating digital transformation and the shift to smart factories

Web-based radio service, available as an app on smartphones but also integrated into some new vehicles, envisions a bright future for one of the oldest entertainment mediums.

Technological advances in both hardware and software components have increased their strategic value in automotive. Moving away from a purely mechanical industry, where the expertise and intellectual property of traditional OEMs reside, electronics and software are becoming key assets. Consistent with this, Wards Intelligence is observing an evident trend at various levels of the automotive supply chain: strategically increasing the value of goods developed in-house through vertical integration, hence increasing control and margins while also reducing costs.

The growth of electric vehicles and environmental concerns worldwide is creating demand for more sustainable interior materials and also unseen materials such as sound insulation.

As the industry moves to software-defined vehicles there is a requirement for next-generation connectivity to keep vehicles updated and constantly protected against cybersecurity threats.