Newly selected project funded under the CCAM Partnership WP2024

Last modified on 17 July, 2025

A sister project of EEA4CCAM, UP2DATE4SDV addresses one of the critical challenges of automated mobility: safely and efficiently updating complex software in next-generation Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs). The project’s goal is to develop and validate methods and tools enabling real-time, safe, and incremental software updates in connected and automated vehicles.

To this end, a middleware solution is to be created and integrated into the current automotive open source standards, which allows complete abstraction not only of the software running in the vehicle, but also of the installed hardware. As a result, not only can the software be continuously updated over the air, and thus kept secure, over the lifetime of the vehicle, but hardware components can also be easily replaced or supplemented to meet future requirements.

The project therefore develops and integrates methods that ensure the safety of the systems during an update by strictly separating all individual automotive applications in containers. The V&V process for each further update, upgrade or reconfiguration will also be automated and a security layer will prevent attacks via the cloud link or among the application modules.

A reference layer based on a hypervisor, which prevents the real-time requirements of different application modules from influencing each other, will make it easier for automotive software developers to use the project middleware solution.

The overall solution is suitable for the upcoming zonal E/E architectures that have a permanent connection to the cloud.