The paradigm advancements in automotive mobility, including autonomous vehicles, infotainment and electrification, have brought new safety and security challenges.
Automotive mobility organizations struggle with ensuring compliance with complex safety and security standards and regulations, such as ISO 26262, ISO 21434 UN ECE to reduce increased safety and security risks and causing potential delays in bringing innovative solutions to market.
VerveTronics offers state of art Functional Safety and Device Security Services specifically for the automotive mobility industry. With deep expertise in the mobility systems we are trusted partner from Safety and Security Risk analysis to start of production, helping organizations ensure their systems comply with industry standards while delivering innovative, safe, and reliable products.
Domain Expertise in Automotive Mobility
Electrification/ Fuel Cell EV Power Train
A FCEV comprises of Power Train, Electric Motor Inverts, FCEV, Hydrogen, Battery management systems, VCU, EPS, Motor Control, Battery management Systems (BMS), DC-DC converters. Ensuring electric vehicles operate with safety, security, reliability and performance is of paramount importance for OEMs/ Tier-1s.
- Vehicle Control Units (VCUs): Vehicle Control Units VCUs manage engine and transmission control for reliable performance.
- Hybrid and Electric Vehicle (HEV/EV) Power Systems: Ensures safe battery management, power distribution, DC-DC Conversion and motor control.
- Electronic Stability Control (ESC): Enhances vehicle stability with redundant sensors and actuators.
- Steer-by-Wire Systems: Electronic steering systems with fail-operational mechanisms and redundancy.
- Brake By Wire Systems: Electronic braking systems with fail-operational mechanisms and redundancy.
- Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Systems: Safeguards against power surges and ensures reliable energy transfer.
- Battery Monitoring System: Prevents overcharging, overheating, or deep discharging in electric vehicles.
- Powertrain Management: Safety measures in energy distribution and propulsion management, especially for EVs.
Autonomous /ADAS systems
ADAS systems, such as adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assist, and collision avoidance, rely on a complex combination of sensors, software, and hardware. These systems must function with high degree of safe, security and reliability to prevent hazards and protect both drivers and passengers.
- Lane Keeping Assist (LKA): Ensures the vehicle stays within lane boundaries with redundant sensors and actuators.
- Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC): Maintains safe distances from other vehicles using reliable radar and vision systems.
- Drive-by-Wire Systems: Replaces mechanical controls with electronic systems, designed with fail-safe and redundancy features.
- Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB): Software ensures real-time detection of obstacles and initiates safe braking under fail-safe conditions.
- Collision Avoidance Systems: Uses redundant cameras, radars, and LiDAR to detect and prevent potential accidents.
Infotainment and Connectivity
Infotainment and digital cockpit (including driver monitoring), Interior and Exterior Lamps, Displays, Tell Tales, Telematics (Wi-Fi, BT, C-V2X, GPS), Cloud connectivity (OTA, e-commerce) are integrate part to ensure Safety and Security of Autonomous Mobility Solutions.
- Driver Information Displays: Fault-tolerant systems to display critical vehicle data (speed, navigation, warnings).
- Augmented Reality (AR) Displays: Ensures accurate and non-intrusive overlay of information for driver assistance.
- Audio / Video Systems: Audio/Visual entertainment, information and warning systems.
- Emirror/Blind Spot Detection: Uses sensors and indicators to warn drivers about vehicles in blind spots.
- Occupant Monitoring Systems: Detects driver fatigue or distractions to provide alerts or take corrective actions.
- Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Communication: Redundancy and cybersecurity in communication systems with other vehicles and infrastructure.
Challenges in Automotive Mobility
Organizations in the automotive mobility industry face several key challenges related to functional safety:
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- Increased System Complexity: With the rise of autonomous driving, electric vehicles, and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), the complexity of automotive systems has grown significantly. Managing functional safety in such complex environments requires specialized expertise.
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- Adapting to Evolving Standards: The automotive industry is governed by stringent functional safety standards such as ISO 26262, which are continuously evolving. Ensuring that safety processes remain compliant with these standards is challenging for organizations that lack dedicated safety resources.
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- Integration of Software and Hardware: Ensuring the safe interaction between software and hardware components is critical in modern automotive systems. Failures in communication between these components can result in safety hazards, and ensuring seamless integration is a significant challenge.
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- Time and Resource Constraints: Automotive mobility organizations are often under pressure to bring new products to market quickly, leaving little time for comprehensive safety assessments and implementations. This increases the risk of errors or oversights in safety processes.
Failure to address these challenges can lead to non-compliance, delays, safety incidents, and potential product recalls, impacting brand reputation and financial performance.
Why VerveTronics?
- Deep Expertise in ISO 26262 and ISO 21434: Our team has extensive experience with the ISO 26262 standard, ensuring that automotive systems meet the required safety and security integrity levels.
- Deep Expertise in Automotive Mobility: With specialized experience in autonomous vehicle technology and electric vehicle systems, VerveTronics is well-equipped to manage the safety challenges posed by ADAS and Electrification development.
- Holistic Approach to Safety and Security: We provide comprehensive functional safety services, from early-stage risk assessments to full-scale system validation, covering both hardware and software safety aspects.
- Innovative Solutions for Emerging Technologies: VerveTronics has a proven track record in addressing the unique safety challenges posed by autonomous driving and electric vehicle systems, ensuring compliance while enabling technological innovation.
- Safety Analysis and Risk Mitigation: We conduct in-depth safety analyses, including Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), to identify and mitigate potential hazards.
- Training and Consulting: VerveTronics offers training and consulting sessions to enhance your team’s knowledge of functional safety and cyber security standards and methodologies, enabling them to manage safety-critical systems more effectively.
Our Approach
- People Knowledge & Competencies: A culture focussed with building deep knowledge and competencies across domains and standards.
- Tools & Process Automation: Emphasis on tools to automate process and thus achieve best in class quality through
- Requirements Management
- Dev Ops for CI/CD Continuous integration and Continuous Delivery.
- Traceability
- Hardware in Loop & Fault Insertion Testing
- Culture of precision, attention to details and excellence through continuous improvement.
- Requirements Engineering: Core competency of Requirement engineering and decomposition considering multifaceted systems engineering approach for architectural components.
- Safety/Security Analysis and Risk Reductions: Carry out thorough failure and threat analysis at various phases with optimum risk reduction techniques.
- Re-usable & Proven in use accelerators: Development and Usage of ready to use, time tested, proven in use accelerators that faced rigorous levels of compliances and testing.
VerveTronics Case Studies / Solutions
VerveTronics Role:
- Support for end to end ISO 26262 ASIL-D Safety Concept till certification
- Safety/Technical Concept and specifications ,
- Safety Analysis for System (HARA), Hardware(FMEDA), Software(FMEA) and Mechanical (FMEA)
- Safety Compliant Hardware Development and Assessment
- Safety Compliant Software Specifications, Validation and Assessment
- ASIL-D / SIL3 Process Development and Improvements
- Safety Assessment and Certifications
VerveTronics Role:
- Support for end to end ISO 26262 ASIL-C compliance
- Safety/Technical Concept and specifications ,
- Safety Analysis for Hardware(FMEDA), Software (FMEA) and Mechanical (FMEA)
- Safety Compliant Hardware Design and Assessment
- Safety Compliant Software Development and Assessment
- ASIL-C / ASPICE Process Development and Improvements
- Safety Assessment
VerveTronics Role:
- Functional Safety Concept and ASIL Decomposition/Allocation
- ECU Architecture and Connectivity.
- Safety/Technical Concept and specifications ,
- Safety Analysis for System, Hardware(FMEDA), Software (FMEA)
- Safety Compliant Hardware Design and Assessment
- Safety Compliant Software Development and Assessment
- Safety Assessment.
Knowledge Center
Invehicle Infotainment, Connectivity and Display