It’s getting explosive in here – at least with Dr. Dietmar Haba’s next presentation. He is Product Engineer at Hirtenberger Automotive Safety. But right at the beginning Dr. Haba tries to low down sensational expectations: „We already have pyrotechnic components in cars, e.g. for airbags or passenger safety systems.“

Paul Knecht

The question arises after Wiesmayer’s presentation. His answer:
„I personally think that this might or could be used for a redundancy which can function as a fallback for wired systems.“ But replacing wires with wireless seems to be a too adventurous doubts Wiesmayer.

Paul Knecht

Wiesmayer highlights a few advantages of an Automotive Ethernet compared to today’s systems:

• #ECUs in Network: Scalability over bandwith
• Higher Flexibility: Scalability of functions and communication media
• Topologies: Network Architecture
• Real-Time Capability
• Adressing via MAC and IP adresses
• State of the art Security

Paul Knecht