Telematics Platform & CO2 Research
A service-oriented telematics platform, plus a £300k CO2 research project. As Software Architect at a top UK automotive OEM (2016–2018), I designed platform services for the telematics module and led a research collaboration with Loughborough University.
The case study
Technologies: telematics, hypervisor, service-oriented architecture, embedded C/C++, industry–academia research collaboration
The challenge
Telematics features kept growing on a tightly coupled software base
Every change was slower and riskier than it needed to be
Growing pressure across the industry to reduce vehicle CO2 emissions
My approach
Hypervisor-based platform separating workloads on the telematics module
Service-oriented architecture: platform capabilities as well-defined services
Led a £300k research collaboration with Loughborough University on using software and data to cut CO2
A reusable, service-oriented foundation for telematics features
Research that contributed to vehicle CO2 reduction work
I also guest lecture on automotive software engineering at Loughborough
Outcome
Balu Pillai
Automotive Solutions Architect
London, United kingdom
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