Bittium

Overview

Bittium provides intelligent and secure software solutions and professional engineering services for the Automotive market.

The main disruptive technology trends, such as smart mobility, autonomous driving, electrification, and connectivity, are driven by innovative software, which has made software the industry´s core enabler and the differentiating factor. We at Bittium aim to accelerate the automotive industry evolution by leveraging our strong competence in software platforms like Android and Linux as well as our over thirty years of track record in wireless connectivity. Our high-quality solutions and services for automotive systems helps automotive industry suppliers to create secure, reliable, intelligent and easy-to-use in-vehicle systems with shorter time to market. The goal is to make the driver's experience as comfortable and safe as possible. Our focus areas include HMI & IVI development, vehicle monitoring and control as well as protection of user security and privacy.

Bittium Solutions Offering

OEM Application Management

When customer selects the Android Automotive without Google services (GAS), Bittium´s application management solution can provide application installation client to the Android Automotive IVI. Together with Bittium SafeMove® MDM, the App Library can be used to enable, disable or force different applications in the Android Automotive IVI, enabling the remote feature control to the car. Managing the OEM application downloads for the car allows the carmaker control the visual brand identity as well as the ability to sell post-purchase feature upgrades for the software inside the car.

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IVI Home

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Application Management

Car Sharing, User and Vehicle Management

The management system developed for vehicle monitoring and control supports the fleet management of service providers, such as logistics, insurance or car rental companies. It enables an efficient way to control e.g. location, speed and driver behaviour of the vehicle fleet.

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Device Management

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Cluster

User Data Security and Privacy Handling

We have a comprehensive knowledge in building secure end-to-end solutions and we can help our customers to protect security and privacy in a consistent way regardless of the device or connection. Our existing assets can be utilized in the automotive environments providing better security and privacy for automotive components including Android Automotive IVI.

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HVAC

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IVI Car

Customization of Android™ Automotive OS

More and more car manufacturers have chosen Android Automotive OS with or without Google services (GAS) to leverage the advantages of the platform for more flexible, user-friendly infotainment systems in their cars. Drivers are expecting comfortable, intuitive and connected in-car experience.

Bittium is happy to deliver top-level engineering services to support the integration and customization of Android Automotive into the In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems. Bittium offers outstanding possibilities for the Android Automotive, such as application management solution, cloud services and improved Android security, data privacy, Vehicle Hardware Abstraction Layer (VHAL) customization and development tools that can be integrated to the Android Automotive IVI device.

Android is a trademark of Google LLC.

Linux Development

Linux is still widely used for the automotive IVI systems and projects such as Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) provides Linux based platforms for the automotive components.

Bittium has been developing embedded Linux based devices for over 20 years. With our 200 in-house Linux Developers we have very strong experience in bringing long lifetime Linux-based devices on the market. Our strengths include integration of different technologies to the Linux-based devices, e.g. modems, wired communication, various peripherals and sensors. We have been working on all Linux levels including base-porting, security (Security-Enhanced Linux – SELinux, certificates, secure boot with signed images, secure communication, hardware based security with TPM, fault detection), virtualization, kernel device tree, kernel audio subsystem, V4L2, networking, user space implementation, production testing and boot optimization.

Our Focus Areas

HMI & IVI Development

We work in cooperation with our partners utilizing Kanzi & Qt Tools for HMI & IVI development, application development, system integration and performance optimization.

Application and Fleet Management

Managing the OEM application downloads for the car allows the carmaker control the visual brand identity as well as the ability to sell post-purchase feature upgrades for the software inside the car. The management system for vehicle monitoring and control supports the fleet management of service providers, such as logistics or car rental companies.