A car in a dark garage outlined in violet light
Markets: Automotive

Updates and onboard storage, in fifteen characters.

Over-the-air updates and onboard data for vehicles that ship with the engine inside.

Automotive

Vehicles carry more software every year. Every update must arrive exactly.

Vehicles carry more software every year and update over mobile links after they are sold. The engine names each update in fifteen characters, checks the vehicle's right to it, and rebuilds it onboard, bit-exact.

The market at a glance
Typical files
Updates, maps, onboard data
What must hold
Integrity on every vehicle
Products
Relay, Safe, Reference designs
Routes
Licence the engine, or a sector deal

Send the descriptor. Rebuild the update.

What the market is up against
  • Updates: software that changes after the car is sold.
  • Bandwidth: fleets that update over mobile links.
  • Integrity: an update that must arrive bit-exact.
What the engine changes
  • The update is named by fifteen characters
  • Decode checks the vehicle's right to it
  • The update regenerates onboard, bit-exact

Where it applies

A car at night receiving a beam of lightAutomotive
Over-the-air updates

Sent as fifteen characters, rebuilt onboard.

Onboard storage

Vehicle data held as strands.

Maps and content

Delivered to the fleet over mobile links.

Licensed per vehicle

A royalty per device shipped.

Use cases are examples of where the engine applies, not current deployments.

An automotive control unit circuit board
In practice

Licensed per device.

  1. 01First

    The engine ships inside the vehicle

  2. 02Then

    A royalty per device shipped

  3. 03Finally

    Reference designs to start from

Example scenario, not a customer deployment.

Questions from automotive teams

Draft answers. To confirm with product.

Does the engine run inside the vehicle?

That is the model: the engine ships inside the device and is licensed per unit. [Supported ECUs: to confirm with engineering.]

What happens if an update arrives corrupted?

Regenerate rebuilds the update bit-exact, or not at all. [Failure handling: to confirm.]

Are there reference designs for automotive?

[Automotive reference designs: to confirm.]

Build for automotive.

License the engine, or find a sector partner for a transactional deal on implexusdata.io.