ETAS Edge middleware solution: fast & cost-effective

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Our Edge middleware solution simplifies automotive software development by introducing mobile app-like programming for body and comfort functions. It enables you to easily read sensor data and safely control actuators. With practices like API abstraction and containerization, the solution makes software applications portable and easy to deploy across hardware configurations and environments.

Your benefits

Speed up

with ready-to-use environment and simplification of development and deployment.

Scale up

by extending your products with enterprise-ready automotive grade solutions.

Innovate

with a robust edge stack for software maintenance to free-up inhouse experts.

Edge middleware solution: fast and cost-effective feature deployments

Edge middleware

Extensible and flexible middleware based on open-source technology

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Edge middleware

Our Edge middleware solution provides an extensible and flexible middleware based on open-source technology to manage the safe and secure execution of vehicle services and apps.

High integration flexibility
Compliant to open standards
Interfacing with safety environment (optionally)

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Development & operations tooling

Integrated and easy-to-use DevOps tooling

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Development & operations tooling

Our Edge middleware solution includes integrated and easy-to-use DevOps tooling helping developers create, integrate, test, and manage vehicle apps.

Develop and manage vehicle apps with speed and at scale
Easy to connect low level to higher level systems
Cost-efficient reuse of apps across vehicles and platforms

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System integration & engineering services

Expert services to simplify integration into OEM software environment and cloud infrastructure

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System integration & engineering services

The Edge middleware solution comes with expert services to simplify the integration into the OEM software environment and cloud infrastructure, as well as lifecycle management of the overall solution.

Seamless integration with OEM’s software environment
Simplified application lifecycle management
Comprehensive knowledge, training and support

Open-Source innovation meets automotive-grade reliability

Our Edge middleware solution caters to a variety of automotive needs, offering both open-source and enterprise editions.

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The open-source edition

is free for evaluating our middleware's capabilities. It lets you ideate quickly, avoid vendor lock-in, and start developing without financial commitment. It is ideal to test functionality and to benefit from a global community's collective knowledge.

The enterprise edition

offers a certified, automotive-grade solution with a standardized execution environment, ideal for critical applications. It includes regular updates, dedicated service, integration into your existing system, and support by ETAS and Bosch experts.

Our AI driven Vehicle application generator is an add-on to our edge middleware solution and lets you easily turn ideas into actual vehicle functions. It generates complete, ready-to-deploy apps far beyond typical text-to-code methods that only produce snippets. With built-in safety and compliance features, this tool cuts costs and opens new monetization streams by enabling anyone to create and sell vehicle apps.