vehicle
Celebrating an academic-industry collaboration to advance vehicle technology
On May 6, MIT AgeLab’s Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) Consortium, part of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, celebrated 10 years of its global academic-industry collaboration. AVT was founded with the aim of developing new data that contribute to automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and insurers’ real-world understanding of how drivers use and respond to increasingly…
“If An EV Manufacturer Wants To Make A Smart Connected Vehicle, We Help Them Transform Their Traditional Products”
– Advertisement – What if a conventional product could become an IoT-enabled device without the many months of development? Anedya Systems, an Ahmedabad-based startup, has this answer. The firm builders, Chinmaya Mahanta and Markand P Pathak, share with EFY’s Nitisha their journey of innovation, from hardware to cloud. Q. What is Anedya? A. Anedya simplifies…
Amazon’s Echo Auto Assistant: Legacy vehicle retrofit-relevant
Remember my April 2023 teardown of Spotify’s now-defunct Car Thing? Ditch the touchscreen LCD, broaden functionality and that’s Amazon’s Echo Auto in a nutshell: Shown here and introduced in mid-2019 is the first-generation version of the product, which I’ll be tearing down today. It originally sold for $49.99 but was initially promo-priced at half that…
How to a wirelessly upgraded a software-defined vehicle (SDV)
In-vehicle systems have massively grown in complexity with more installed speakers, microphones, cameras, displays, and compute burden to process the necessary information and provide the proper, often time-sensitive output. The unfortunate side effect of this complexity is the massive increase in ECUs and subsequent cabling to and from its allocated subsystem like engine, powertrain, and…