Hyundai and Cisco Build In-Car Gigabit Network

As autonomous cars on the road are used more often, they will soon become more advanced. Manufacturers will start adding more functions and sensors to vehicles to make them more reliable and predictable, while in general they are better connected. But all these extras have a cost bandwidth. For this reason, car manufacturer Hyundai together with the Cisco network company has developed a vehicle backbone capable of gigabit speeds.

Autonomous cars must be able to process a lot of information in a reliable way. In a fraction of a second the sensors and cameras have to send data from one end of the car to the other, so that the information can be processed by the vehicle's on-board computers. To avoid the complexity of designing a new network and a new standard for each platform, Cisco has decided to use a standard that has been in development since its foundation in 1973 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). . ): Ethernet.

This does not refer to the cable that passes between your computer and your home router, but to the stand behind the cable. Ethernet has achieved Gigabit speeds since 1998 via fiber optics and copper-turned pair since 1999, but the standard itself still needs to be fully integrated into a complete solution for a vehicle until the task is provided by both companies. Cisco has been working on a scalable end-to-end solution for use on the vehicle by choosing to use the Ethernet and IP protocols, meaning that data travels the same way through the car's internal network as at home. she.

"By setting up an open and very secure platform, companies have laid the foundation for a bright future, including exploring Hyundai's data center integration, which gives access to real-time data." Communicate "with lights and parking meters", says Seung-ho Hwang, director of Hyundai Auto Intelligence and former IT Director of the company. "Cisco and Hyundai remain committed to creating the next generation of platforms and vehicle services."

Hyundai expects that the use of this infrastructure will enable it to be extremely flexible with future integrations, easily facilitate future services and integrate with other connected devices without making major changes to its own platform. The technology is expected to soon be added to the 2019 Hyundai high-end line of vehicles.