Automotive OTA Software Updates and Data Management for Connected Cars

Leveraging vehicle connectivity

Connected vehicles are increasingly enabled to receive remote over-the-air (OTA) software updates and transmit diagnostic and operational data from on-board systems and components. By leveraging vehicle connectivity in this way automakers can significantly reduce recall expense, improve cybersecurity response time, increase product quality and operational efficiency, and deliver post-sale vehicle performance and feature enhancements.

Managing increasing complexity

The benefits of automotive OTA are clear. What’s not so clear is how to manage the increasing complexity of executing OTA software updates and data management for millions of vehicles around the world—efficiently, reliably, and securely—as requirements transition from single ECUs like head units to multiple ECUs like gateways, sensors, and processors powering safety and highly critical systems and components throughout the vehicle.

Multi-ECU OTA Software and Data Management

Automotive OTA is much more complex than other consumer “devices” like smartphones and set-top boxes. That’s because vehicles are sophisticated machines with hundreds of components from a multitude of suppliers—and they’re getting more complex as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), vehicle-to-everything (V2X), and autonomous features proliferate.

Airbiquity addresses this complexity with OTAmatic™: An industry leading multi-ECU OTA solution that orchestrates and automates software update and data management campaigns while also meeting the unique needs of automotive.

7M+ OTA Software Updates to Date

Over-the-Air Orchestration	End-to-End Security	Data Management Framework

Policy-Driven Dependency, Rollback, and Recovery	Standards-Based Certification, Authentication, and Encryption	Dynamic Data Collection and Upgradable Analytics
Bandwidth & Storage Management	Consumer Interaction & Privacy	Campaign Management

Intelligent Network Selection, Data Caching, and Transfer	Customized Notifications, Prompts, and Consent	Campaign Creation, Approvals, Reporting, and Administration

Service Deployment Options

OTAmatic can be deployed via Airbiquity's Choreo cloud, public clouds, or on-premise data centers to best meet the management, control, security, and business model requirements of automakers and automotive suppliers.