This joint effort aims to improve the safety and reliability of onboard vehicles on autonomous vehicles. Some functions of the platform will be shown at CES 2020.
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Renovo and BlackBerry QNX present their latest automotive data platform at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. This joint offer, announced on Friday, is aimed at deploying safety-oriented data management solutions for connected and autonomous vehicles.
In particular, the advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and the autonomous vehicle platform will integrate the real-time operating system of BlackBerry QNX with the intelligent automotive data platform of Renovo, said Kaivan Karimi, senior vice president and co-head of Blackberry Technology Solutions QNX.
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Renovo’s intelligent automotive data platform, Insight, uses artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent tagging to move data quickly from the vehicle to the cloud. The Insight system is the winner of the CES 2020 Innovation Award. After incorporating data into the cloud, developers can index the data, gather key insights, and disseminate those insights to engineering teams, said a press release from Renovo.
BlackBerry QNX technology is already embedded in 150 million cars today, many of which are Renovo’s autonomous test fleet. The partnership will form a safe and reliable in-vehicle system with a safety certification process, Karimi said.
Due to the integration, the BlackBerry QNX real-time operating system can also venture outside the vehicle. Edge computing transports data from the operating system from the vehicle to the Renovo’s Insight platform, Karimi noted.
“If you look at a platform like Renovo, that’s the next step; it’s when cars are connected, and now when you think about the future of smart cities, cars actually become part of the infrastructure,” Karimi said. “The data generated from the car becomes important in the infrastructure in the process.”
“Renovo has this data management system that uses AI pipeline,” Karimi said. “However, they want to have access to both the security-critical domain and the wider field for data management. That’s where the collaboration and use cases come from.”
With the predicted ADAS market at $ 70.4 billion in 2024, this joint effort represents a step toward large-scale ADAS use and implementation.
According to the Ministry of Transport, autonomous vehicles can reduce the number of road deaths by 94%. However, autonomous vehicles have led to accidents and casualties. Data platform systems in the automotive industry can help prevent these accidents by providing developer data that shows where errors occur.
“Managing all data in a connected car while keeping safety, security and privacy intact at the same time is the tip of the iceberg on what could be (continued), from a connected car perspective,” Karimi added.
For more information, see Autonomous Vehicle Guide: what business leaders need to know on ZDNet.
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