New Delhi: Volvo has revealed plans to overtake its infotainment and knowledge methods with a brand new in-house developed working system, VolvoCars.OS, which will probably be used on future automobiles from 2022.
The subsequent technology of pure electrical Volvo fashions, together with the corporate’s first SUV on a very new electric-only expertise base, will run on VolvoCars.OS, for quicker and extra versatile growth. Coupled with extra frequent over-the-air updates to buyer automobiles by their lifetime, the corporate’s goal is to make Volvo automobiles higher every single day, the corporate stated in a launch.
VolvoCars.OS will act as an umbrella system for electrical Volvo automobiles. It incorporates the corporate’s numerous working methods throughout the automobile and the cloud, creating one coherent software program OS setting. The underlying working methods embody Android Automotive OS, QNX, AUTOSAR and Linux.
Via a wide range of utility programming interfaces (APIs), together with the beforehand introduced Prolonged Automobile API, the VolvoCars.OS offers builders entry to in-car options equivalent to car sensor knowledge, consumer interfaces and cloud-based options equivalent to fleet knowledge, topic to buyer consent. This permits builders to create new companies and functions for Volvo automobiles, the discharge stated.
By growing software program in-house we are able to enhance growth speeds and enhance your Volvo quicker than we are able to right this moment.Henrik Inexperienced, Chief Know-how Officer
“By growing software program in-house we are able to enhance growth speeds and enhance your Volvo quicker than we are able to right this moment,” chief expertise officer Henrik Inexperienced stated.
Volvo Vehicles are additionally centralising computing inside its absolutely electrical automobiles right into a core system, eradicating numerous complexity. The shift to centralised computing additionally permits Volvo Vehicles to steadily separate {hardware} from software program. This implies the corporate can introduce extra frequent {hardware} cycles, in order that new Volvo fashions will be geared up with the most recent out there {hardware}, he stated.
The system will probably be co-developed with Google (whose Android OS is already utilized by Volvo), whereas GPU big NVIDIA helps to create a brand new computing core for next-generation Volvo fashions.
“Google is a real chief in consumer expertise and companies, from Google Maps to Google Assistant, whereas NVIDIA offers us entry to a number of the quickest and finest computing out there. This method of chosen strategic partnerships is way more efficient than attempting to do the whole lot on our personal,” Inexperienced added.
Volvo Vehicles’ profitable collaboration with expertise leaders to provide its clients the absolute best consumer expertise can also be a driving issue behind its determination to open up its VolvoCars.OS to third-party innovation by open APIs, the discharge added.
