As I was sitting in a coffee shop the other day, sipping my coffee and checking the latest PGA leaderboard on my phone, I glanced up and looked around. To my right, there was a guy streaming a show on Netflix, to my left a woman was on a video call, and just ahead of me, it looked like someone was trading stocks online. This made me consider two things – first, that we’re all probably spending too much time on our screens – but second, how marvelous WiFi and 5G are. Here we were, with our five-dollar cup of coffee, me on my iPhone, my neighbors using Samsungs, and our new trader friend on his HP laptop, all seamlessly connected to the internet. Why? Because of standards. As you’ll undoubtedly know, both WiFi and 5G are standards that all hardware, software, and telecom providers can subscribe to. Imagine a world without them, where Apple, Netgear, and AT&T all had separate wireless internet protocols to adhere to. Developers would have taken the principles of wireless internet technology and applied them in their own image. Surely it would be chaos, where wireless internet could take many different forms, with none quite speaking the same language. Would it have proliferated society so quickly? Would it be so reliable? Would consumers even bother to use it? This is why eSync is a standard, as well as a platform. Having a standard removes unnecessary variables and interpretations that create a chaotic development phase and slows the technology’s adoption. You can read more about standardization in a new blog on our website, which you can find in the latest news below. Also in this issue, we get to know a recently joined member of the eSync Alliance, GuardKnox, and take a look back at our whitepaper on building a scalable standardized pipeline using AWS. I hope you enjoy it!

Sincerely,
Mike Gardner Executive Ditector
mike.gardner@esyncalliance.org

In Recent News

Why is standardization so critical for the deployment of automotive OTA? 

In the rapidly advancing world of automotive technology and with the advent of softwaredefined vehicles, over-the-air (OTA) updates have become an expected capability. However, for OTA to reach its full potential, and for it to be proliferated throughout the entire vehicle – and indeed the automotive industry – standardization plays a vital role. But why? Find out here. 

Whitepaper in focus: Building on AWS

Discover how the eSync Alliance, in collaboration with Excelfore, leverages AWS to build a scalable, standardized platform for automotive OTA updates. Our white paper explores the importance of standardization, showcases a successful use case with Maruti Suzuki in India, and shows how the eSync Agent SDK facilitates integration into the eSync OTA pipeline. Discover the benefits of using AWS for scalability, agility, and efficiency by downloading the white paper here.

MEET A MEMBER: GUARDKNOX

We are pleased to welcome GuardKnox as one of the newest members of the eSync Alliance. GuardKnox specializes in secure-by-design products for the next generation of mobility. With its patented Secure SOA Framework, GuardKnox simplifies automotive software development and orchestration complexity, facilitating seamless interactions between software components. Its software middleware and OTA update capability support software-defined vehicles, ensuring security while streamlining the approach to software development, deployment, and management in vehicles. To find out more about GuardKnox, read our recent news release announcing its membership to the eSync Alliance.

LinkedIn poll: 

Do you agree with us on the benefits of standardization? 
In this month’s LinkedIn poll, we ask whether standardization or source code is most important in the development of automotive OTA. Review the results on LinkedIn.

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July 2023 Newsletter