Intra-car communications and diagnosis solutions

The automotive industry is one of the most diversified, complex and important area into research and development software engineering solutions. Multimedia and infotainment systems, from nowadays cars, require more and more software and hardware resources which bring about the adaptation of the existing communication and diagnosis standards. The market wishes are moving towards wireless, affordable and easy-to-use solutions. Even the well-known and powerful standards as CAN in case of communication and UDS for diagnosis services, are starting to not fulfill all OEMs needs. The integration of a new concept for intra-car communications and diagnosis services is required and one of most promising is the Remote Diagnosis. The paper presents a new Remote Diagnosis technology, enhanced with a remote gateway device which handles the communication and diagnosis services. This wireless solution satisfies multiple needs such as: analyze and fix car's issue remotely, providing software updates in a remote way and more others. The integration of Remote Diagnosis into the existing systems is also feasible.