Automotive ECUs Evolving Toward Intelligent Service Model
Wind River and Vector Provide SOA Supporting ADAS and
Autonomous Driving Function Development Based on AUTOSAR Standard


On the 21st, Wind River announced that it is providing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) supporting ADAS and autonomous driving function development based on the 'AUTOSAR Adaptive' standard in collaboration with Vector, an automotive software company.

The joint solution from both companies comprises Vector's AUTOSAR Adaptive technology and Wind River's real-time operating system (RTOS), the new product 'Wind River Studio' which includes 'VxWorks®'. Wind River Studio is a cloud-native platform for development, deployment, operation and servicing of mission-critical intelligent systems.

The platform supports safety-critical applications requiring strict deterministic performance, and enables automotive manufacturers to address environments with mixed levels of criticality through SOA components.

◇ SOA Supports ECU Utilization in Intelligent Service Model

As the innovation cycle of consumer electronics accelerates, expectations for automobiles are also rising. Demand is emerging that transcends traditional electrical/electronic architecture, and this trend is expected to accelerate with the increase of electrified vehicles (xEVs) and ADAS.

Boston Consulting Group forecasts that electric vehicles will account for 51% of the automotive market by 2030. Accordingly, fixed-function devices and physical electronic control units (ECUs) are evolving toward an intelligent service model.

ECUs in the intelligent service model integrate previously distributed domain functions, enabling automotive manufacturers to reduce ECU complexity and extend vehicle value and lifespan through cloud services. They provide Software as a Service (SaaS), expand operational automation, and enable data-driven decision-making through machine-generated data. The significant transformation of ECUs occurs through SOA, which aims to define how software components can be reused through service interfaces using common communication standards.

Automotive software developers can extend activities across the entire lifecycle of intelligent service model ECUs with SOA. The lifecycle includes design, development, verification, software deployment, continuous feature upgrades, and software updates. In future enterprise operational environments, developers can also use SOA as an enabling technology for digital feedback loops, maintaining communication with vehicles, monitoring ECU telemetry information for real-time action, while proactively providing new services to customers.