As automotive manufacturers ramp-up their shipments of software enabled vehicles across the globe, they face the increasing problem of how to manage the connectivity needed to operate and support the software, vehicle and deliver the best experience for their customers.
A global fleet requires connectivity from multiple operators across the various countries they are shipped to, which in turn means multiple APIs, integration requirements and operator processes. This results in an unwieldy network architecture that does not align with modern cloud-based technology and agile automotive software releases. Simple operational processes are unnecessarily complex and can take weeks to be implemented. Operational visibility and control of vehicles is severely restricted, often being delivered through periodic reporting, such as billing and aggregated performance reporting.
Expeto’s Jim Josephs discusses these pain points in this presentation from CES 2024. Jim demonstrates how Expeto solves these issues with a software solution that provides a standardized architecture and unified control plane from the car to the cloud, so that automotive manufacturers have:
- Direct control of the lifecycle of their vehicles from factory to dealership to customer to everyday on-road usage.
- Unified, real-time visibility and control of all vehicle connectivity for operational processes, root cause analysis and troubleshooting.
- Self-service for immediate execution of change requests, managing test and production environments, segregating traffic, and configuration changes.
- Integrated use of existing IT, cybersecurity applications and utilizes native cloud tool such as the AWS tools for monitoring infrastructure and networks.
- Improved control of data flow to optimize latency, manage data costs and comply with data regulations.
Watch the presentation below:
