Is Open Source Ready for Automotive Production Use?
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In-vehicle architecture will be reengineered
Open source is a critical part of the automotive software supply chain
Partnering enables faster time to market and enhanced security
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How auto manufacturers generate value is changing
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Featuring Brandy Goolsby, Product and Solutions Marketing Director, Wind River
How the industry generates value is changing Vehicle OEMs have thrived on optimizing the supply chain, manufacturing, and the sales channel. But software-defined vehicles (SDVs) have shifted the value drivers from back-end optimization to user experience and vehicle autonomy. McKinsey projects the overall market for automotive software development is expected to reach $84 billion by 2030.
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Vehicles serving as self-contained computing environments are the next generation
New customer expectations There is a new set of customer expectations around feature and functionality enhancement and the overall user experience. Adjacent consumer experiences (e.g., phones and digital lives) drive new rising consumer expectations about the pace of innovation and capabilities (e.g., personalization).
“The automotive industry is undergoing unprecedented business and product transformation.”
- Brandy Goolsby, Wind River
Vehicle architectures being fundamentally reengineered To meet these new customer expectations and extend value over the life of the vehicle, the vehicle is now software defined and cloud connected, and vehicle functionality is not bound to a physical location. Digital transformation Automotive developers are looking at an array of options to identify how to best address the dynamic and fluctuating needs placed on them by the vehicle and the consumer. Combining functions and services on consolidated hardware creates an opportunity for open source adoption. Open source software affords developers a high degree of flexibility in development and can enable interoperability between solutions for optimal performance in this new automotive landscape.
“We need to make the tech fit the business, creating the next generation of software architecture that must be an integrated platform, with interoperable solutions across the technology stack, to meet evolving requirements for performance, safety, security, adaptability and cost efficiency.”
As needs evolve, architecture will move from distributed configuration to domain centralized to zonal
The vehicle is undergoing a major transformation, from a closed, proprietary, and static solution to a more open, dynamic, and fluid solution that allows for new experiences, on-demand, and in real time.
“What you see actually taking place is a convergence of the IT and the OT world, driving new business models and customer engagement. The focus is really on retention and monetization of vehicle services.”
To support this transformation, the automotive industry is beginning to move toward centralized architecture to enable new features, functions, and experiences while simultaneously driving down costs by managing hardware and software complexity. This redesign will extend the value and the life of the vehicle with communications to the connected cloud services, offering software as a service (SaaS) and increasing automated operations and performing predictive maintenance, and the data that will be delivered throughout the vehicle will be synthesized and analyzed for more precise and timely decision making.
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OEMs will see benefits and challenges in open source adoption
Over the last four years, open source dependencies in applications have gone up 6X
For those applications, 75% of the code base was made up of open source
98% of applications contain some open source
As the auto industry continues to advance, developers have increasingly turned to open source technologies to build next-generation solutions that address these key goals. Already:
As part of the automotive industry shift, there are four key areas that vehicle OEMs will have to focus on, including how to:
Provide extraordinary benefit and value Mitigate the price of change Enhance capability Ensure broad silicon support to enable upgradability and to allow for new and emerging technologies to be available
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Open source offers both benefits and challenges:
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Challenges
Flexible with standard APIs to enable the interoperability of software solutions
Accelerated rate of innovation
No vendor lock-in
Software reuse
Device optimization
Device updates and fixes
Regulated and maintained by open source communities
Maintaining security updates
Compliance assurance
Building an open source design and development often comes with hidden, unpredictable costs associated with the upkeep of the codebase, evolving compliance standards, and managing security updates. However, with a commercial open source provider, costs remain fixed for the duration of the service contract and include maintenance of current and up-to-date versions of open source technology. A vulnerability management process is critical to securing a software environment that leverages open source code. Wind River categorizes over 1,000 packages in its own distribution of Windows Linux, including key aspects of business security, and as a partner, Wind River works with organizations to identify the right packages that fit each particular environment. Star Labs, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wind River, provides Linux hardening and secure hypervisor solutions.
“The number of CVE (common vulnerabilities and exposures) increases annually. The defect rate can increase by eight times or more over the lifecycle of a vehicle. Monitoring these vulnerabilities is a task that someone must bear in order to ensure the security of the vehicle in the field.”
Wind River offers security, reliability, footprint, and performance optimization
In addition, Wind River helps speed time to market by focusing on management of open source technology, allowing automotive developers to place their focus on the application and business outcomes. Through a continuous delivery model, Wind River tests and validates new code every three weeks and provides certification and validation of partner companies’ open source license compliance.
Acceleration services through feature development or functionality enhancement
Premium support SLAs
Wind River also offers:
Validated, pretested Linux OS specifically for the automotive market
Brandy Goolsby
Product & Solutions Marketing Director Wind River
With more than 18 years of experience in automotive technology and a proven track record of defining and positioning strategic customer solutions, Brandy is committed to driving business strategy and fostering innovation.
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The market for automotive software development is expected to reach $84 billion by 2030, more than doubling during the 10-year period from 2020 (McKinsey, 2019). Automotive manufacturers want to adopt open source technology to avoid vendor lock-in and accelerate their rate of innovation. However, there are concerns that open source is not ready for production. Automotive software developers need help identifying the open source software elements that are appropriate for their projects. Are you in the process of navigating this new normal? We can help.
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