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Increasing digitalization, new mobility concepts, and trends such as personalization, connectivity, electrification, and automation create the potential for innovations like the software-defined vehicle. The software-defined vehicle is a term used to describe the gradual transition from hardware-driven development to software-defined development. New functions are implemented primarily through software and can be made available to the vehicle through regular updates. Technological, organizational, and cultural key drivers are paving the way for the software-defined vehicle. As a result, a personalized user experience is being created for end customers that is always state of the art.
Bosch, together with its partners, is developing an open technology platform including an in-vehicle software stack. Bosch’s work here focuses on highly integrated development toolchains and vehicle-related cloud-platform services. This approach is based on the latest developments related to zone-oriented E/E architectures in combination with vehicle computers and ensures deep integration across all vehicle domains. With this software-centric engineering approach, Bosch is speeding up and simplifying the way in which vehicle software is developed, tested, and deployed.
An innovative development and runtime environment supports software engineers with the latest development toolchains while fulfilling the highest safety and security requirements of the automotive sector. With modular software building blocks used as a basis for the development work, resources are freed up so vehicle manufacturers can focus on the development of differentiating products and services. Technology neutrality and the use of open-source software are essential for this approach.
thanks to jointly developed industry standards for non-differentiating software building blocks
thanks to modular software building blocks that provide basic functionalities
through continuous development and over-the-air updates throughout the vehicle life cycle
through seamless integration of third-party software
Bosch enhances the development toolchains throughout the vehicle life cycle and is establishing new software paradigms together with Microsoft. Interoperability plays a decisive role. Both companies pursue an open-source approach. Software building blocks are available for developers on GitHub.com.
New software can be updated throughout the vehicle life cycle by means of over-the-air updates. The basis for this is provided by Microsoft Azure or the carmaker’s cloud infrastructure. Thanks to scalable apps, new software functions can be deployed and made available in millions of vehicles.
An independent software life cycle enables compatibility across platform, brands and segments and provides automobile manufacturers access to a variety of relevant data points. Besides base technologies like container management, the solution also offers update management, diagnostics, and logging.
Bosch enhances the development toolchains throughout the vehicle life cycle and is establishing new software paradigms together with Microsoft. Interoperability plays a decisive role. Both companies pursue an open-source approach. Software building blocks are available for developers on GitHub.com.
New software can be updated throughout the vehicle life cycle by means of over-the-air updates. The basis for this is provided by Microsoft Azure or the carmaker’s cloud infrastructure. Thanks to scalable apps, new software functions can be deployed and made available in millions of vehicles.
An independent software life cycle enables compatibility across platform, brands and segments and provides automobile manufacturers access to a variety of relevant data points. Besides base technologies like container management, the solution also offers update management, diagnostics, and logging.
Software building blocks that can be deployed for any brand, on any platform, and in any segment form the basis for quick implementation of new software functions. These building blocks do not contain any brand-specific functions that are recognizable by the end customer. With such building blocks, a software-defined vehicle can be developed and operated more efficient.
Sven Kappel, the director of the software-defined vehicle project at Bosch, describes in a video interview the business potential that the software-defined vehicle opens up for automobile manufacturers, what the open technology platform provided by Bosch and its partners looks like, and what the benefits are for the end customer.
Sven Kappel, Head of Software-defined Car
Strong partnerships are essential for realizing the software-defined vehicle. Bosch and Microsoft, both global market leaders in their areas of expertise, are pooling their competencies to get the vehicle domain connected to the cloud domain. This development collaboration combines the in-depth expertise in software, electronics, and systems of Bosch, and ETAS with the know-how of Microsoft and GitHub in the areas of cloud computing, agile software development, and open-source software.
The aim of the collaboration is to develop vehicle software continuously, faster, and more easily throughout the vehicle life cycle and to deploy software in the vehicle based on regular updates. Both companies are committed to an open development ecosystem with open-source software building blocks to which further partners are invited to contribute their expertise. Through its participation in open-source projects and open-source work groups, such as the GENIVI Alliance and the Eclipse Foundation, Bosch is actively shaping the standardization of software and interfaces in the automotive sector.
Dr. Claudio Seitz, Lead Product & Portfolio Software-defined Vehicle
Dr. Claudio Seitz, Lead Product & Portfolio Software-defined Vehicle, explains that today's vehicles are designed to remain almost unchanged over their lifecycle and why future vehicles will be learning devices.
Achim Nonnenmacher, Lead Product & Portfolio Software-defined Vehicle
Achim Nonnenmacher, Lead Product & Portfolio Software-defined Vehicle explains why it needs up to seven years to bring a feature update in today’s vehicles, what full programmability is going to change in the future and how vehicles will improve while they are already in the field.
Sven Kappel, Vice President
Sven Kappel, Vice President – Head of Project “Software-defined vehicle” talks about the three main challenges in the industry. He explains how the software complexity will increase over the upcoming years and why it needs to be managed. He also talks about organizational complexity, and how mindsets and cultures affect collaborations in the industry.
Ansgar Lindwedel, Lead Customer and Partner Onboarding Software-defined Vehicle
Ansgar Lindwedel, Lead Customer and Partner Onboarding Software-defined Vehicle points out that Bosch together with ETAS is addressing three main target groups: every car manufacturer who wants to centralize its E/E architecture, every supplier who wants to develop software innovations for cars, and every company in the world who wants to focus on bringing software innovations into cars.
Sven Kappel, Vice President – Head of Project “Software-defined vehicle”
Sven Kappel, Vice President – Head of Project “Software-defined vehicle” talks about the difference between the demand specific software and services and the horizontal enablement layer. In addition, he provides insights on why Bosch and ETAS are working on a new way to manage the software in the car and that the development platform GitHub plays an important role.
Ansgar Lindwedel, Lead Customer and Partner Onboarding Software-defined Vehicle
Ansgar Lindwedel, Lead Customer and Partner Onboarding Software-defined Vehicle explains why Bosch and ETAS are strong believers in open standards and open source. The entire technology offering focuses on the user experience of the developers.
Dr. Claudio Seitz, Lead Product & Portfolio Software-defined Vehicle
Dr. Claudio Seitz, Lead Product & Portfolio Software-defined Vehicle talks about Bosch’s partnership with Microsoft and how it complements Bosch’s expertise in automotive software development. This unique combination to kickstart a new era of mobility. He also speaks about the software-defined vehicle initiative, which is of course open to all partners.
Dr. Achim Nonnenmacher, Lead Product & Portfolio Software-defined Vehicle
Dr. Achim Nonnenmacher, Lead Product & Portfolio Software-defined Vehicle talks about three different pillars. First, the in-vehicle OS, second our cloud backend and third why we want to deliver a great development experience.
Marco Wagner, Lead Developer Experience Software-defined Vehicle
Marco Wagner, Lead Developer Experience Software-defined Vehicle points out that Bosch is following a concrete vision. He explains that vision and addresses four important points that make the Bosch software-defined vehicle approach revolutionary.
Sven Kappel, Vice President – Head of Project “Software-defined vehicle”
Sven Kappel, Vice President – Head of Project “Software-defined vehicle” explains how Bosch tackles the challenge of software complexity in the vehicle by our next generation OTA update and what our three advantages are compared to the competition.
Marco Wagner, Lead Developer Experience Software-defined Vehicle
Marco Wagner, Lead Developer Experience Software-defined Vehicle talks about the importance that safety has for Bosch, how the so-called safety guard shifts all concerns from the app developer to the in-vehicle platform, and he mentions the advantages of it.
Marco Wagner, Lead Developer Experience Software-defined Vehicle
Marco Wagner, Lead Developer Experience Software-defined Vehicle points out Bosch’s unique features: the ability to develop, deploy and execute multi node applications, the highly integrated services for verification, validation, and homologation and that Bosch is doing all of this in an open ecosystem approach.
Stuttgart and Munich, Germany – Bosch teams up with Microsoft to develop a software platform to seamlessly connect cars to the cloud. The goal of this collaboration is to simplify and accelerate the development and deployment of vehicle software throughout a car’s lifetime in accordance with automotive quality standards. The new platform, which will be based on Microsoft Azure and incorporate software modules from Bosch, will enable software to be developed and downloaded to the control units and vehicle computers. A further focus of the collaboration will be on the development of tools that increase efficiency in the software development process. This in turn will drive innovation and reduce development costs for vehicle software within and across organizations.
Bosch has been actively contributing software to the Vehicle Signal Specification (VSS) as part of the joint GENIVI/W3C Common Vehicle Interface Initiative (CVII) since mid-2020. VSS is a common vocabulary to describe vehicle signals, ensuring that the name and semantics of standard data points are the same across the software stack. We have joined to support the CVII’s objective of establishing industry-wide common interfaces for vehicle data and functions.
Connected Mobility Solutions, Head of Software-defined Car
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