Turnkey-Ready Development Platform and secure Gateway for Automotive Connectivity
Targeted to the Automotive industry, SYSGO offers a complete and ready-to-use system for all communication needs involved in transportation. That includes Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2X) as well as car internal communication.
Secure Connectivity for Automotive Solutions
Chris Berg, Solutions Architect at SYSGO, talks about the benefits of secure data streams in embedded automotive applications.
In particular the communication with the outside world requires deterministic and accurate response times that can only be achieved by means of an underlying real-time operating system.
The electronic systems inside a modern car are able to take control over critical systems, such as the steering and braking gear. This significantly improves the safety during the operation of car, but at the same exposes the risk of unauthorised access. As a consequence, the safety of a vehicle must be accompanied by security measures. Therefore, the connectivity platform contains a gateway utilising a robust routing system implementing a firewall and an intrusion detection system.
Connectivity in the Automotive Industry
Especially in this industry, the frequency of model changes and functionality updates is extremely high.
Virtualization
The list of desired features is growing year by year. This usually requires the combination of existing software components with completely new and partially incompatible application programming interfaces. Maintaining a stable software basis while being able to follow the desires of the end user is a challenge. This is where virtualization comes into play. The connectivity platform is extendable easily by adding an arbitrary number of guest operating systems without compromising Safety or Security.
Performance
The PikeOS operation system has been chosen as the backbone of the Secure Automotive Platform, as it naturally fulfils the substantial requirements of determinism and real-time, Security, Safety and virtualization. As a Type 1 hypervisor, it directly runs on the embedded hardware and makes the overall system as performant as possible. Another performance boost comes through the multi-core support, which has proven its maturity in recent Railway projects.
Gateway Interfaces
In the example of a gateway, the supported default configuration communicates to the outside world by means of a 4G/5G network. A firewall protects the vehicle internal WI-FI hotspot, which is available to the passenger’s convenience.
The internal communication lines, such as CAN and Ethernet are available to the hotspot by means of dedicated and surveillance channels only. The gateway supports Virtual Local Area Networks (VLAN).
Figure 1: Inter-Partition communication within the telematics gateway
Seamless IoT Protection - How to make connected Gateways secure
The platform utilises a secure boot mechanism. Communication is assured by means of a Transport Layer Security (TLS) library. Cryptography and Storage is supported by executable binaries and configuration files that are digitally signed and stored on a secure Certified File System (CFS). The gateway’s network Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is located within a separate partition, that monitors the network traffic. In addition to security aspects, this approach demonstrates the ability of PikeOS to resolve licensing issues by means of software isolation
Over-The-Air (OTA) Updates
The platform allows the update of software and firmware components of the entire system by means of secure communication via TLS (FIPS certified). Update files are signed digitally.
Certified Base System
PikeOS Hypervisor (Separation Kernel Version 4.2.3 (build S5577)) certified according to Common Criterial EAL3+ and certifiable up to ASIL-D
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