Accelerated Adoption of Automotive Software Over-the-Air Updates within the automotive industry

The level of vehicle autonomy accelerates, and cybersecurity become increasingly critical, within this industry.

The trend is very aggressive also for car dealers. In fact, when the automotive industry becomes fully OTA, car dealers lose not only the revenue enhancement that they acquire in making updates and repairs, but they lose the associated foot traffic.

The adoption of Software Over-the-Air (SOTA)-enabled vehicles increases and ABI forecasts nearly 203 million OTA-enabled cars to ship by 2022. 

Both SOTA and Firmware Over-the-Air (FOTA) expected to see a spike, with nearly 180 million new cars supporting SOTA and 22 million FOTA by 2022. 

To many within the industry, car OEMs will primarily focus the next three to five years on SOTA versus the still nascent FOTA upgrade. Other talk about a welcome transformation, as OTA is the only way to accomplish secure management of all of a connected car’s software in a seamless, comprehensive, and fully integrated manner.

While it is clear that, not all recalls can be fixed via an OTA update, ABI Research market analysis suggests that close to one-third of last year’s recalls could have been addressed over the air, saving car OEMs at least $6 billion.