Awesome! Fuel car to open the whole vehicle OTA era, Geely Starry announced FOTA upgrade on the new program

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November 20, this year's one of the hot models of Geely Xingrui released the first FOTA upgrade plan on the first day of the Guangzhou Auto Show, which involves automatic parking, panoramic image, panoramic image, and new upgrade plan. Xingrui released its first FOTA upgrade program on the first day of the Guangzhou Auto Show, which involves automatic parking, panoramic image, car machine, air conditioning, engine NVH and many other hard and software items.

As of press time, Geely StarElite's first FOTA upgrade?FOTA?GOS?01?1.0 version has been opened in batches to push, all the car owners who purchased the car before December 31, 2020, can enjoy the upgrade free of charge, and get OTA?1 year free upgrade rights.

Geely this initiative in the automotive market, can be said to have dropped a heavy bomb, after all, before the Starry, the market can reach the FOTA upgrade models, basically only the new energy this category.

What is FOTA?

"OTA", that is, over-the-air download technology, through the network to automatically download upgrade packages, automatic upgrades, through the interface of the mobile communications to achieve remote management of the software, to achieve the existing function/performance optimization (Bug Repair), the new function of the push, etc., is usually more used in the It is usually applied to cell phones, computers and other electronic products.

FOTA, Firmware?Over?The?Air/ Firmware Over the Air Upgrade, refers to the provision of firmware upgrades for devices with Internet connectivity through cloud-based upgrade technology.

What we generally see in fuel cars are SOTA (Software-over-the-air) OTA upgrades, which only upgrades the software, such as in-car navigation, entertainment apps, human-computer interaction and other in-car features, which can be interpreted as an update of the APP in the phone, without upgrading the hardware firmware (FOTA category).

It's not because car companies don't do it to save costs, but because 'FOTA for cars' is really too difficult.

There are usually dozens of controllers in a car, which can be simply categorized into three types according to different levels. The first category is infotainment-related, such as the car's engine, instrumentation, and?TBOX; the second category is non-power-related, such as some body controllers and autonomous driving; and the third category is the underlying powertrain-related controllers, such as the brake system and battery system.

The most difficult are the latter two categories, which require upgrades to various controllers involving the body, autopilot, and the underlying powertrain (brakes, batteries, etc.).

These controllers, the industry will generally use real-time operating systems based on QNX, Linux, Autosar specification, etc. to control the timing, stability, security requirements are extremely high, is the car is very bottom, safety-related control software.

New energy vehicles have an inherent advantage in this regard compared to fuel vehicles, they have a huge firmware/software controller, and can update the software at a high frequency to improve their own advantages (without FOTA in the case of the infrastructure is not mature, not upgraded, and will easily be eliminated from the market).

Fuel cars are different, their infrastructure is already complete enough to cope with the current market and consumer demand, and they really don't need to invest high cost to do FOTA.

Is it really that much worse for cars to have FOTA or not?

Some time ago, the Volkswagen Group was revealed to be in trouble with the software development of the MEB platform's first model, the ?ID.3? The 10,000 or so units of the ?ID.3 that had already been produced had to be parked in a parking lot, waiting for an engineering crew to go in and manually refresh them.

What was Tesla like in the meantime?

During the Florida hurricanes in September 2017, Tesla temporarily increased the range of the shorter-range MODEL?S?60 versions for free by pushing the package through FOTA to make it easier for owners to evacuate and give everyone a chance to escape.

Geely, which has strong technical capabilities and a market coverage that is gradually going global, will obviously not let go of this opportunity to add points to its flagship since it has defined the Starlet as a "sedan disruptor.

Jeely has launched a FOTA program for this new product just 20 days after its launch on Nov. 1, and the first round of push was launched on Nov. 21 during the Guangzhou Auto Show.

Geely already has the ability to develop from cloud services, safety management to electrical appliances, and StarElite is fully capable of realizing whole-vehicle OTA.

To truly become the industry's first fuel vehicle to realize whole-vehicle OTA confirms that Geely already has the ability to develop from cloud services, safety management to electrical appliances, and that StarElite is fully capable of realizing whole-vehicle OTA, and is the first to open up the era of comprehensive OTA for fuel vehicles.

What are the specific functional iterations that StarElite has realized in this FOTA?

This FOTA?GOS?01?1.0 version, will further optimize the NVH performance of the whole series of models, at the same time, premium and flagship models will be upgraded by the two models will also add the RPA remote parking function, and optimize the 540 ° panoramic image of the blind spot transparent compensation display effect, to achieve the performance of the whole car, the quality of the significant improvement.

Geely StarElite Premium and Flagship models will add a new RPA remote-control auto-parking function, compared with APA automatic parking will be more intelligent and convenient.

Users do not need to sit in the car, through the cell phone APP one-key remote control command, you can realize the vehicle automatically parked in or out of the parking space, to avoid encountering a small parking space parking can not get out of the car after the situation, for the novice driver or have a wealth of experience in driving the old driver are very friendly.

At the same time, Xingrui has 12 ultrasonic radars and 4 megapixel wide-angle HD cameras, which can automatically calculate the distance to obstacles and the position of the parking line and parking track, whether there is a parking line or not, and park the vehicle into the target parking space automatically, which can fully guarantee the accuracy and safety of the remote-controlled auto-parking.

In addition, according to the user's experience in the early stage of the suggestions and needs, Geely Starry quickly optimized the 540 ° panoramic image of the blind spot transparent compensation display effect, to improve the accuracy.

Singray also optimizes the NVH performance of the entire vehicle, adjusting the idling speed of the hot engine in SPORT mode from 900rpm to 750rpm, which improves the NVH performance of the engine without affecting the power performance; and also optimizes the air conditioner's cooling performance and NVH, to further enhance the quality of the driving experience.

When is Starry's next FOTA?

Geely also announced at the Guangzhou Auto Show that the second OTA plan for StarElite will be pushed from December 1, mainly for the upgrading and optimization of infotainment domains:

The whole series of models will for the first time apply the byte-jumping in-vehicle customized APP, and the new Volcano Car Entertainment StarElite Customized Entertainment Zone integrating Jieyin, watermelon video, and car-knowing empire and other kinds of content in a single area.

For in-car navigation, Geely Starry will meet the different users' navigation habits, adding Baidu Maps in-car APP, support for road prediction, congestion dissipation/exacerbation tips, personalized customized voice packages, instrument casting screen and other functions.

The in-vehicle Gaode version will be upgraded from 3.2.9 to 4.3.7, allowing owners to freely set the default selection of Gaode and Baidu maps according to their own preferences. In addition, StarElite will add six new simulated real-life voice packages to further optimize the sound of the car's voice announcement.

In addition, Geely StarElite has also created a set of perfect "OTA ecological program", in the future upgrade according to the actual needs of users, will be paid to launch the car ventilation, Bluetooth key PE and other new features, the user can independently choose whether to buy the upgrade. At the same time, also continue to provide users with such as vehicle air conditioning air purification, EPS steering power, panoramic image, automatic parking system and other optimization features of the free upgrade service.

Additionally, StarElite will further practice the "coupe subversive action" to create a "user experience feedback program", recruiting the first StarElite OTA user experience officer, and strive to achieve OTA monthly upgrades, quarterly upgrades.

The Guangzhou Auto Show is still underway, so if you're interested, you may want to check it out.

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