Automotive Software Development
Automotive software spans a wide range, from dealer and aftersales systems to connected vehicle services. What the connected side adds is scale, update integrity and a regulatory regime that arrived recently and is strict.
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Constraints specific to automotive
The problems that shape software here, and that generic engineering tends to discover late.
Vehicle telemetry at fleet scale
A connected fleet generates continuous data from every vehicle. Ingestion has to absorb that without dropping readings, and storage cost forces early decisions about resolution and retention.
Updates reach hardware you cannot recall
Software delivered to vehicles in the field must be staged, verified and reversible. Regulation now requires a managed update process rather than treating it as an engineering convenience.
Vehicle data is personal data
Location history and driving behaviour identify individuals, which brings connected vehicle services squarely within data protection regimes and makes consent design a real problem.
A long chain of parties
Manufacturers, suppliers, dealers, fleet operators and drivers all touch the same data with different rights, and the access model has to reflect that rather than flattening it.
Software we build for automotive
Connected vehicle services
Telemetry ingestion, remote diagnostics and driver-facing applications built for fleet-scale data volumes.
Dealer and aftersales platforms
Service scheduling, parts, warranty and customer systems integrated with manufacturer platforms.
Fleet management
Utilisation, maintenance scheduling and cost analysis across mixed fleets, including electric vehicles with their own telemetry and charging concerns.
Update delivery infrastructure
Staged over-the-air rollout with integrity verification, health checks and rollback — the operational backbone regulation now expects.
Standards that apply to software in this sector
What the software has to be built to satisfy. Which of these apply to you depends on your jurisdiction, your data and your customers.
[ 01 ]
Vehicle cybersecurity
- UNECE R155
- ISO/SAE 21434
[ 02 ]
Software updates
- UNECE R156
[ 03 ]
Functional safety
- ISO 26262
[ 04 ]
Development process
- Automotive SPICE
[ 05 ]
Personal data
- GDPR
- CCPA
These are the standards we design and build to meet. Certification or attestation of your organisation is a separate exercise, carried out by a qualified assessor — we can support that process with documentation and evidence, but we do not certify it.
Tell us what your vehicles are producing
Discuss an automotive projectHow we'd approach it
The service lines this sector most often needs.
IoT & Connected Devices
Connectivity, telemetry pipelines and fleet management for physical estates in the field.
Custom Software Development
Bespoke systems shaped around your operations, integrated with the tools and data you already run on.
Mobile App Development
Native and cross-platform iOS and Android apps, built for real network conditions rather than office Wi-Fi.
Data Analytics & Engineering
Pipelines, warehousing and reporting built so the numbers reconcile and people act on them.
Automotive: common questions
Something specific to your operation?
Send it over — sector questions are the ones we most like getting.
Ask us01
Do you develop in-vehicle or embedded software?
Our work is on the connected services and business systems side — telemetry platforms, driver and fleet applications, dealer systems — rather than embedded ECU software. Safety-critical in-vehicle software under ISO 26262 is a specialist discipline with its own toolchains and certification path, and it is honest to say that is not where we operate.
02
How do you handle vehicle telemetry volumes?
With streaming ingestion designed for burst absorption, edge filtering so vehicles transmit what is needed rather than everything they can measure, and tiered retention that keeps high resolution around events and aggregates the rest.
03
What do UNECE R155 and R156 mean for a connected service?
R155 requires a managed cybersecurity approach across the vehicle lifecycle, and R156 requires a managed software update process — meaning updates must be delivered through a system with integrity verification and a documented process, not ad hoc. In practice they turn what were engineering practices into type-approval requirements for vehicles sold in the regions that adopted them.
04
How is driver data handled?
As personal data, because location and driving behaviour identify individuals. That means a lawful basis for each processing purpose, consent design where consent is the basis, retention limits, and an access model that distinguishes what a manufacturer, a fleet operator and a driver may each see.
Adjacent sectors
Tell us what your vehicles are producing
Describe your fleet, your data and who needs access to it. We'll come back with an approach.
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