Recently, at Bosch Technology Day 2024, Bosch stressed that it is continuing to expand its business through software and services and hopes to achieve billions of euros in sales of its software business by the end of 2030.
Source: Bosch (the same below) Software-defined Automotive (SDV) has become a new trend in the automotive industry.
“the boom in software will reshape the automotive industry,” said Dr.
Stefan Harton, chairman of the Bosch Group. ” Dr. Marcus Hein, a board member of Bosch Group and chairman of Bosch Intelligent Travel Group, also pointed out that “in the future, cars will be seamlessly integrated into the digital world.” Dr. Stefan Harton, chairman of the Bosch Group Board, and Dr.
Marcus Hein, a member of the Bosch Group Board and Chairman of the Bosch Intelligent Travel Group, believe that the starting point for the design and development of new models will increasingly be software.
According to a recent McKinsey study, the global market for automotive software and automotive electronics is expected to reach $462 billion by 2030.
From 2023, the share of software in the automotive market will triple.
Bosch, however, naturally wants to be a member of the growth market.
In fact, Bosch software can be found in many fields, whether it is the production line of large industrial enterprises, automobile maintenance shops, or the field of medical equipment.
Bosch software can alert drivers to retrograde vehicles, monitor and protect valuable cultural assets, provide digital management solutions for buildings, and play a role in the International Space Station in outer space.
It has been revealed that Bosch currently has about 48000 software engineers, of which 42000 focus on intelligent travel solutions.
“We are standing at the dawn of the era of software-defined cars,” Dr.
Hein said.
This is good news for Bosch, which knows both hardware and software like the back of its hand.
We are one of the few companies that can fully master the interaction between automotive electronics and cloud computing.
” For example, Bosch helps fleet operators avoid vehicle failures and improve efficiency through software and service solutions such as vehicle health.
For logistics companies, Bosch’s L.
OS digital platform can promote the digitization of logistics business and the simplification of the entire operation chain.
In addition, Bosch has also developed a special software, “Electronic comfort Brake”, which can prevent uncomfortable frustration during braking.
Of course, the development of software-defined vehicles will also go hand in hand with the transformation of automotive architecture, and the trend of distributed information technology and electronic and electrical architecture to a centralized, domain-controlled architecture is clear.
At present, a car contains about 100 control units produced by different manufacturers.
In the future software-defined cars, the control functions only need to be performed by more than a dozen on-board computers.
For this reason, the function of the specific domain needs to be integrated into the modern vehicle computer.
Against this background, Bosch and Qualcomm jointly launched a new car computer at the beginning of this year, which integrates infotainment and driving assistance functions for the first time.
Bosch points out that for vehicle manufacturers, this means not only reducing the space and weight of installation, saving wiring harness, but more importantly, reducing costs.
In terms of the control unit alone, the combination of driving assistance and infotainment control units can reduce costs by as much as 30%.
It is reported that Bosch has made progress in the field of advanced in-car computers: in the past three years, in-car computers have generated sales of nearly 4 billion euros for Bosch.
However, as Bosch said, whether it is a hundred or a dozen, these diverse in-car computers and software packages must communicate with each other in order to communicate across brand boundaries.
Bosch provides middleware for this purpose, that is, translation software between vehicle physical components and application software from different suppliers.
All in all, software and digital services have become important pillars of Bosch’s business success, driving innovation across companies and industries.
So, what are Bosch’s major innovative products and solutions for modern and future mobile travel? At the 2024 Bosch Technology Day, Bosch made a concentrated display.
The deterministic middleware solution is reported to be used to develop and run advanced autopilot systems, supporting software and hardware architecture modeling and high-performance communications.
This middleware integrates various application functions and connects them to each other.
It includes multiple tools, ECU software libraries and a powerful application program interface (API), which is suitable for advanced driving assistance systems and autopilot development cycles.
Bosch Etcher middleware, Bosch mentioned that one of the notable features of the Ethel solution is that it ensures that the actual test mileage is applied one-to-one in a virtual environment with unparalleled accuracy.
This is the key to reliable development in virtual environment.
In this way, Etchi can pass repeatable simulation verification to help vehicle manufacturers and other suppliers significantly reduce the measured mileage.
As a result, new driving features can be brought to market faster without compromising safety.
Artificial intelligence vehicle application generator, nowadays, car users are increasingly looking forward to personalized functions that reflect their personal needs.
This obliges vehicle manufacturers to provide such software-based vehicle features.
However, Bosch points out that the development of such software is very complex and requires in-depth knowledge and close cooperation with suppliers.
Currently, only vehicle manufacturers can integrate welcome functions that accurately control seats, lights and headlights.
Any customization for dealers, car rental companies, fleet owners and drivers is very difficult.
The artificial intelligence vehicle application generator has fundamentally changed this situation.
” According to Bosch, the AI-driven generator is an extension of Eatchi’s Edge middleware solution, enabling everyone from vehicle manufacturers to drivers to create new vehicle functions in natural language without knowing about it in advance.
The tool generates complete, ready-to-use applications and integrates security and compliance features.
Nowadays, wire control technology has become more and more popular.
The technology adopts electrical signal transmission to remove the mechanical connection between the steering wheel, brake pedal and their respective actuators.
This improves the comfort of vehicles and the flexibility of integration, and provides more possibilities for functional innovation, such as in critical driving situations, more intelligent system intervention can reduce or even avoid the occurrence of safety accidents.
In addition, wire control technology provides innovative man-machine interface and interior design, reducing the left rudder andThe variable of the right rudder vehicle to improve the collision safety.
Of course, to ensure safety, wire control systems introduce redundant designs in actuators, power supplies and communications.
Bosch on-line control technology, Bosch said that combined with its vehicle motion intelligent control system, vehicles can achieve a safer, comfortable and sustainable driving experience.
The cabin driver integration solution, as mentioned earlier, the distributed electronic and electrical architecture is shifting to a centralized, domain-controlled architecture.
The architecture includes a small but powerful number of cross-domain on-board computers, such as the cabin-driving integration solution, a software-intensive central computer, which can integrate previously independent infotainment and driving assistance functions into the same chip system, including automatic parking and lane recognition, supplemented by intelligent and personalized navigation and voice assistance.
Bosch cabin driving integration solution, modular and scalable high-performance computers require less in-car space and wiring, enabling vehicle manufacturers to reduce costs.
As a result, more autopilot functions can be integrated into compact and medium-sized vehicles.
Bosch’s goal is to reduce the complexity of vehicle electronic systems while improving vehicle safety as much as possible.
According to official data, Bosch’s in-car sensing solution can improve the safety of all passengers based on innovative sensor and software solutions.
The scheme can identify the distraction and fatigue of drivers and issue warnings accordingly.
The passenger monitoring function monitors the entire vehicle, which is not only critical for self-driving vehicles, but also helps to make the vehicle more passively safe and efficient, such as seat belt reminders and airbag suppression testing.
Cabin perception can also bring comfort and convenience functions, such as automatic seat and temperature control and gesture control.
In addition to the camera system, the cockpit sensor radar can also detect subtle movements in and around the vehicle.
It can identify sleeping babies and attempts to approach or break in, and alert car owners accordingly.
Bosch in-vehicle sensing solutions, it is reported that these functions can be provided as stand-alone software solutions, central on-board computers or dedicated control units.
By combining infrastructure data sources such as group data and weather information from networked vehicles, Bosch’s networked mapping service is said to provide accurate and real-time information about many aspects of the driving environment.
Unlike human drivers who learn only from their own experience, networked mapping services benefit from comprehensive empirical data for all connected vehicles.
As a result, the vehicle system can determine a variety of information, such as the optimal speed at a roundabout, the exact lane geometry and trajectory of a complex intersection, the landmarks that the vehicle can be used for centimeter precision positioning, and even the current location of dangerous ice on the road.
Bosch says that with this extensive and reliable real-time information, driving behavior can be planned and adjusted proactively and safely when road conditions change during driving.
As a result, networked map services can not only improve the existing driving assistance functions and improve their availability, but also create new possibilities for the development and improvement of vehicle and travel services, thus making the future mobile travel more safe and convenient.
In addition, Bosch also focuses on many innovative products and solutions such as a software platform for logistics experts to address the many challenges faced by the transport and logistics industry, as well as fleet interconnection services to help travel and logistics service providers maximize vehicle utilization and reduce idle time.
From this, it is not difficult to see that Bosch uses software to drive innovation in various fields, and as a result, it may be able to achieve what it expected, “just as almost every car today is equipped with Bosch parts.
” every car on the road in the future will also run Bosch code.
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