This announcement of BMW testing IP networks on cars is interesting… If you have spent time looking into the networking used in automotive you know of technologies such as Controller Area Network (CAN).
A BMW research group has tested the Internet Protocol to network automotive controllers. The engineers found that IP could well suit the real-time requirements even of safety-critical applications. But the most prominent benefits are in another area: With IP networking, costs for automotive electronics probably could be lowered.
:By using IP components and software routines, automotive OEMs could use standard components. “This would facilitate coordinating and matching processes with external partner since they would have access to hardware and software building blocks,” Bogenberger said.
Related to this see Internet Protocol – a world standard becomes automotive.
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