Software Configuration As A Service (SCAAS): Scalable Runtime Tuning For Mass-Customized Vehicles
Ronak Indrasinh Kosamia · International Journal of Innovative Research in Engineering & Multidisciplinary Physical Sciences · 2023
Software-defined vehicles, in general, and mass customization in the automotive industry, in particular, have encouraged the need to implement dynamic, scalable software configuration methodologies. This paper presents a new framework, called Software Configuration as a Service (SCaaS), which provides scalability run time tuning and configuration provisioning with lifecycle management of a large vehicle fleet. SCaaS application of traditional DevOps concepts into the automotive sphere enables Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and Tier-1 suppliers to inject, modify, or retire software configuration at run time, per-vehicle. SCaaS, by decoupling feature enablement and monolithic software updates, enables real-time targeted deployment of vehicle-specific configurations to minimize the friction and accelerate the rollout of features. In addition, SCaaS opens new revenue streams with the Feature on Demand (FOD), which can phrase customer personalization and OEM profitability. The suggested architecture guarantees secure runtime-safe configuration management, which makes SCaaS the critical driver of the mass-customized, software-centric automotive ecosystem in the future.