Wipro Partners Excelfore For Autonomous Vehicles
This partnership aims to enable connected car solutions for automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Tier 1 equipment makers
Indian information technology services corporation Wipro Ltd and smart mobility networks solution provider Excelfore on Tuesday (8 August) has announced a global partnership to offer connectivity solutions for next generation smart and autonomous vehicles.
This partnership aims to enable connected car solutions for automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Tier 1 equipment makers.
The two companies will enable scalable Ethernet AVB/TSN (Audio-Video Bridging/Time-Sensitive Networking) and Secure Full Vehicle FOTA/SOTA (Firmware/Software Over-The-Air) update solutions for automotive manufacturers and smart mobility companies.
John Sloser, Vice President and Global Head Automotive Electronics, Wipro Ltd said, “This partnership enhances Wipro’s leadership position in the automotive engineering services market and strengthens our ability to support connected automotive initiatives of our global automobile customers.”
“Creating scalable and secure end-to-end connectivity is not just a question of technologies, but behaviors and disciplines. A system level architectural approach is needed, which takes into account networks and hardware in the vehicle, services in the cloud, and mechanisms of rolling out updates to vehicles,” said Shrikant Acharya, Chief Technology Officer, Excelfore.