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Hardware Abstraction Layer for a European Software Defined Vehicle approach

Project description

Innovative methods, tech and processes to optimise next-gen cars automobiles run by software

Vehicle functions and features are increasingly being controlled, updated and improved through software. Such continuous upgrades and enhancements will boost the overall performance, safety and value of these so-called software-defined vehicles (SDVs). The EU-funded HAL4SDV project aims to pioneer SVD techniques, technologies and procedures to secure Europe’s leadership in the automotive sector and compete with major players such as China and the United States post-2030. To do so, it will develop a secure, scalable SDV platform, integrate software interfaces, create a robust hardware abstraction framework, facilitate internet updates, implement safety and security features, as well as provide essential open-source code development and configuration tools. By forming a unified automotive ecosystem across Europe, HAL4SDV envisions ushering in a new SDV approach for future vehicles' safety-critical and non-safety-critical applications.

Objective

The HAL4SDV proposal aligns with the EU Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda 2022 on Electronic Components and Systems. It aims to pioneer methods, technologies, and processes for series vehicle development beyond 2030, driven by anticipated advancements in microelectronics, communication technology, software engineering, and AI.
HAL4SDV envisions a future where vehicles are fully integrated into smart cities, intelligent highways, and cyberspace, blurring the lines between inside and outside the vehicle. Assumptions include data-centricity, code portability, efficient data fusion, unlimited scalability, real-time capabilities, and robust cybersecurity.
The objectives encompass unifying software interfaces, creating a hardware abstraction framework, enabling Over-The-Air (OTA) updates, designing platform architectures, ensuring hardware abstraction and virtualization, offering hardware support, automating integration, supporting safety features, harnessing edge computing, implementing security measures, and providing essential development tools.
By focusing on these objectives, HAL4SDV aims to establish a unified ecosystem for software-defined vehicles, positioning Europe's automotive industry for continued leadership post-2030 while leveraging existing results and technologies to accelerate progress.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-JU-RIA - HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-2-RIA

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Coordinator

TTTECH INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION AG
Net EU contribution
€ 257 287,50
Address
SCHONBRUNNERSTRASSE 7
1040 Wien
Austria
Region
Ostösterreich Wien Wien
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Total cost
€ 1 029 150,00

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