Wind River and five other companies collaborate to launch Fusion connected vehicle data management platform

Airbiquity, Cloudera, NXP, Teraki and Wind River recently launched the Fusion Project, a collaborative plan for the automotive industry, which aims to define a complete set of efficient data lifecycle platforms to promote the development of integrated connected vehicles. This pre-integrated hardware and software solution integrates the innovative technologies of leading companies to support automakers in efficiently collecting, analyzing and managing connected vehicle data, thereby ensuring the continuous development, deployment and upgrade of functions.

As connected vehicle technology continues to advance, the amount of data generated around cars is growing exponentially. This enables automakers to provide new data-centric features to consumers while creating new revenue opportunities for themselves. However, they are also facing unprecedented challenges in how to effectively collect, analyze and manage vehicle data, as related solutions are currently fragmented, machine learning models are rigid, intelligent edge computing capabilities are stretched, and in-vehicle computing capabilities are seriously insufficient.

The Fusion Project pre-integrates technologies from five industry-leading providers into a single solution to work together to address the above challenges, allowing automakers to evaluate the complete solution and apply it to the design and production of the next generation of connected and autonomous vehicles.

The first application of the Fusion project is a smart vehicle lane change detection solution, which integrates the following technologies from five companies:

• Airbiquity - Over-the-Air (OTA) software management 

• Cloudera - Data lifecycle solutions from edge to AI

• NXP - Vehicle Processing Platform

• Teraki - AI for Edge Data

• Wind River - Intelligent Systems Platform Software

This solution creates a powerful and efficient data lifecycle platform that includes OTA machine learning model update capabilities without data distortion, while achieving the highest system decision accuracy.

Phil Agney, founder and president of VSI Labs and co-founder of Telematics Research Group, said, "Automakers face constant challenges in implementing complex technologies, such as advanced ADAS and next-generation features for autonomous vehicles, which require new technologies. The next-generation data management technology stack involves many aspects and requires continuous improvement and deployment of artificial intelligence machine learning models, so automakers need to have a car-to-cloud solution. The goal of Project Fusion is to create such a solution, which includes various key technologies for the entire automotive ecosystem."

This pre-integrated solution is now available to customers for evaluation. For more information on The Fusion Project and the initial smart vehicle lane change detection solution, scan the QR code to watch the demo video.