Get Ready for Automotive OTA with vConnect

Stuttgart, GERMANY, 2020-10-16 – Vector now offers vConnect, a new and omprehensive Over-The-Air solution. It contains a consistent and modular OTA framework, from back end to vehicle. The framework provides a solid basis for the development of own OTA applications. For getting started, the vConnect Evaluation Bundle is available. The user quickly gains practical experience with automotive OTA and benefits from a variety of individual application options. Based on a modular framework, vConnect covers the most important automotive OTA use cases right from the start - for example OTA software updates (SOTA) and live diagnostics. Customers use the vConnect framework as a basis for developing custom OTA applications. Thanks to integrated end-to-end security functions, these applications are optimally protected from the very beginning. Integration into existing business systems and simple application development are easily possible. With the immediately available vConnect Evaluation Bundle, every user can directly convince himself of the advantages of the vConnect OTA solution in practical application. The VN8810 diagnostic hardware is simply connected to the vehicle via the OBD interface and provides a secure communication channel to the back end. This allows new software updates to be loaded onto the vehicle and defined diagnostic sequences to be executed. The request for the vConnect Evaluation Bundles can be made easily via the Vector website (www.vector.com/vconnect_eva). The vConnect Evaluation Bundle includes the VN8810 diagnostic hardware with the vConnect vehicle components and access to the personalized back end instance in the Vector Cloud. With vConnect, established Vector offboard diagnostic and flash tools can be easily integrated into a consistent OTA scenario that supports both offboard and onboard use cases. More information at: www.vector.com/vconnect

About Vector Vector is the leading manufacturer of software tools and embedded components for the development of electronic systems and their networking with many different systems from CAN to Automotive Ethernet. Vector has been a partner of automotive manufacturers and suppliers and related industries since 1988. Vector tools and services provide engineers with the decisive advantage to make a challenging and highly complex subject area as simple and manageable as possible. Vector employees work on electronic innovations for the automotive industry every day. Worldwide customers in the automotive, commercial vehicles, aerospace, transportation, and control technology industries rely on the solutions and products of the independent Vector Group for the development of technologies for future mobility. Vector worldwide currently employs more than 3,000 people with sales of EUR 770 million in 2019. With its headquarters in Germany (Stuttgart), Vector has subsidiaries in the USA, Japan, France, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Romania, South Korea, India, China, and Brazil. You can find this and other press releases on our website at: www.vector.com/pressreleases Vector press contacts worldwide you will find at: www.vector.com/press Vector is also active in popular social networks: www.vector.com/connect