Reference Platform

    Modern cars offer many connectivity options, including connection to a smartphone.Modern cars offer many connectivity options, including connection to a smartphone.Modern cars offer many connectivity options, including connection to a smartphone.Modern cars offer many connectivity options, including connection to a smartphone.Modern cars offer many connectivity options, including connection to a smartphone.Modern cars offer many connectivity options, including connection to a smartphone.Modern cars offer many connectivity options, including connection to a smartphone.Modern cars offer many connectivity options, including connection to a smartphone.

    What We Do

    Reference Platform (RRP)

    Our rapid reference platform (RRP) is the software centerpiece of the CE4A, with 15 years of development work. It enables the simulation of a Car Kit and a mobile phone role. This gives us the opportunity to test Bluetooth functionalities in both roles. As part of our RRP expansion, we develop, implement and update various Bluetooth specification together with the Bluetooth SIG.

    1. Topics
    2. Innovations
    3. CE4A
    4. Reference Platform

    Our Mission

    Our mission is to gather collective automotive requirements, specify a reference platform for interoperability testing, establish clear benchmarks for vehicle-mobile device interfaces, and aggregate test scenarios and outcomes to align with CE industry standards.

    Objectives

    • Emulate both the vehicle Control Unit and the mobile terminal in an OEM overarching manner  
    • Path the way for finding and removing errors or omissions in early testing phases at car manufacturers, automotive suppliers and mobile terminal producers 
    • Implementation of new Bluetooth profiles considered to be in development stage 
    • Participation in UPF Events of the Bluetooth SIG 
    • Remote testing of Bluetooth profiles and specifications

    Technical details of RRP

    The RRP is based on a Raspberry Pi with Open-Source enhancements and is therefore independent of external Bluetooth dongles/hardware.

    • Development of the next generation RRP with the following goals:
    • Maximize use of open-source software 
    • Flexible implementation and extensibility
    • Mobile platform that can easily be operated in the car
    • Reduced complexity due to uniform hardware
    • Early availability of features without the dependency of third party and proprietary software
    • Support prototyping of new Bluetooth features
    • Provide newly implemented features to the open source community

    External contact person

    Malcolm Osagie

    Project manager CE4A

    [email protected]