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The Cybercom Group is a high-tech consultancy that offers global sourcing for end-to-end solutions, having established itself as a supplier in segments for portals, mobile solutions, embedded systems, e-commerce, and business support systems. Cybercom is offering strategic and technological expertise to markets including telecom, Internet, and media (TIM), banking and financial services, automotive, national defense, and the public sector. The Group employs about 1,300 people and runs projects worldwide. Cybercom has offices in Denmark, India, Poland, Singapore, Sweden, and the UK.
Cybercom plays a key role in a development project that will stimulate co-operation between the vehicle and telecom industries; to implement new functions and services in vehicles.
Cybercom is co-enabling a development project called open platform for nomadic devices (OPND). This project is part of VINNOVA’s larger vehicles’ IT and telematics (V-ICT) programme. Appello, Saab Automobile/GM, Scania, the Viktoria Institute, and Volvo Technology AB are the participating entities in the OPND project.
Ingemar Söderlund, of Saab Automobile, noted, “Greater responsibility in the OPND project was a natural evolution for Cybercom. The company has extensive vehicle expertise coupled with telecom, Internet, and media expertise.”
The OPND project’s goal is to create a platform that is aligned with vehicles’ electrical architectures and to enable integration and services usage, which is driven by the electronics and mobile services in consumer markets. The platform must be flexible, scaleable, future-safe, and cost-optimized.
Ingmar Bengtsson, the project’s technical manager at Cybercom in Gothenburg, said, “The vehicle industry’s long product life cycle must be adapted to skyrocketing trends in the electronics market.”
The previously mentioned services include telephony, navigation, audio, video and TV. The objective is to create a solution that can be easily upgraded to support new technologies and services, e.g., mobile services enabled via Bluetooth®. Users must be able to select equipment and service based on their preferences and to benefit from vehicles’ resources such as sound system, screens, pushbutton systems, and security systems.
“The first proof of concept will be ready at year-end. With support from UPnP and online navigation, which enables functions such as seamless switching between the cell phone and the car,” added Bengtsson. “We’re working with a top-priority area for all leading vehicle manufacturers worldwide.”
Cybercom’s core area constitutes running Telecom, Internet and Media (TIM) related development projects for their vehicle industry.
Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
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