Experimental Platform for Innovative ICT Car Architecture

The ever rising complexity of the historically grown architecture of nowadays cars leads to massive problems concerning reliability, costs and development time. The observable trend to electric cars offers the opportunity to redesign the information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure of cars to encounter these problems. Within this paper, we present an evaluation platform for innovative ICT car architectures. This platform can be used to evaluate different concepts, such as the usage of smart sensors or the integration of several software functions on one controller using virtualization, their applicability and implications for the overall ICT architecture.