The automotive industry is influenced by a group of megatrends called “Automation, connectivity, electrification and sharing,” or more commonly “ACES” for “Automation, Connectivity, Electrification and Sharing.” The ACES trends represent a new opportunity for the industry, as they raise an entirely new set of challenges. One of these challenges is how to deal with the increased use of software in today’s automobiles. In fact, there are more lines of code in connected cars than in other sophisticated machines of our time such as the U.S. Air Force’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, or the American space shuttle. Today's computing hardware is more powerful and, consequently, millions of lines of code can be run to perform countless complex functions. Connected cars thus integrate a multitude of systems. They will soon communicate externally via vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, as well as internally between the vehicle’s subsystems and networks. Security is paramount. All embedded systems must be secured so that nothing affects the vehicle while it is in motion (or at rest).
To learn more about what Siemens Canada is doing to address this growing concern, clickHERE.
This blog post is made possible thanks to our major partner Siemens as part of the Cybersecurity and Security in Transportation Forum, an initiative of Propulsion Québec and supported by the Government of Quebec.
