Automotive tech firm Aptiv showcased at CES how it’s positioned for the broader adoption of software-based car applied sciences.

Aptiv’s digital and on-site presentation on the Las Vegas occasion included an indication of a number of use circumstances for the corporate’s software program purposes in car structure, equivalent to utilizing synthetic intelligence and machine studying to boost Aptiv’s radar system.

Aptiv Chief Expertise Officer Glen De Vos stated the demonstration — which centered on what the corporate refers to as software-defined automobiles — highlighted the corporate’s “holistic” strategy to software program expertise and utility, or “sensible structure.”

“A part of that’s the precise bodily {hardware} that goes into the car; {the electrical} structure, the wiring, the connection system, the compute,” De Vos informed Automotive Information throughout a digital interview. “A part of that’s the software program, serious about software program as being abstracted from that underlying {hardware}, having the ability to handle that software program far more successfully by way of improvement after which over the lifetime of the car. After which a chunk of it’s also the connectivity.”

De Vos stated Aptiv’s extra holistic strategy to software program improvement and car utility higher positions the corporate, particularly as automakers undertake new architectures for the transition to electrical automobiles.

“That is the appropriate time for the OEMs to undertake new architectures since you’ve gotten rid of the inner combustion engine,” defined De Vos. “All of the legacy elements that usually get dragged alongside by that, now you may put that behind you and actually reimagine car structure as you go to a totally electrified platform.”

De Vos stated, with the corporate’s involvement in car structure, the shift to completely electrified platforms additionally permits Aptiv to take part in high-voltage electrification, enhancing the corporate’s enterprise mannequin.

“From a wiring harness and connections system standpoint, low-voltage platforms have about $500 of content material,” he stated. “Whenever you go to a totally electrified platform, you are taking out the wiring harness for the engine, however you add again in about $850 of high-voltage content material.”