If few days ago we were talking about the company that will create the Volkswagen Group to protect their cars from cyber attacks that can cause the hackers today it is the turn of the Renault-Nissan Alliance. In this case the alliance franco-japanese want to improve and expand the systems of connectivity and artificial intelligence of their cars and to do this instead of creating ex profeso a company to do this has decided to add an asset to your already great company.
The acquired company is also French Sylpheo. This company is dedicated to the engineering and software development applied to content in the cloud. Through this acquisition opens a new path for the next generations of models of the alliance. This will allow the next generations of the Megane or Qashqai have more advanced technologies and can provide more services connectivity to their drivers.
According to Ogi Redzic senior vice president of vehicles and connected mobility services from the Renault-Nissan Alliance together to Sylpheo will play a role fundamental in the new era of great change in which is immersed the industrial world of the automobile. To do this the team of professionals that will be dedicated to this purpose amounted to a total of 300 experts in technology and development of systems and applications.
These professionals will work hand-in-hand with the 40 engineers and consultants that will bring Sylpheo. Thanks to this collaboration will be the development of software for the Alliance will be more fast and adjust better to the needs of the customers. In addition, this collaboration is not only confined to the development of applications and platforms connectivity for smartphones but you will also be directed to the design and development of vehicles self-employed of the Renault-Nissan Alliance.
This aspect may be the most important as Renault-Nissan wants to launch to the market more than 10 autonomous vehicles by the year 2020 and, therefore, must have great ability of development to implement this plan.
Source – Sylpheo
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