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Digital Key for connected vehicles

Once upon a time… there was the key

The Digital Key for connected vehicles enables secure and convenient vehicle access via smartphone or smartwatch. Modern technologies such as BLE, NFC and UWB enhance security and flexibility. At the same time, vehicle manufacturers, fleet operators and mobility providers benefit from efficient digital access management.
IAV GmbH Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr
THE KEY POINTS IN BRIEF
• The Digital Key enables secure and convenient vehicle access via smartphone or smartwatch.
• BLE, NFC and UWB work together to ensure a high level of security, convenience and flexibility.
• IAV develops and integrates scalable Digital Key solutions for production vehicles, fleets and mobility services.

The Dig­i­tal Key for con­nect­ed vehi­cles replaces the tra­di­tion­al car key with a smart dig­i­tal solu­tion. Dri­vers can con­ve­nient­ly unlock, start and per­son­alise their vehi­cle using a smart­phone or smart­watch. At the same time, car-shar­ing schemes, fleet man­age­ment and dig­i­tal mobil­i­ty ser­vices ben­e­fit from greater flex­i­bil­i­ty.

Secure vehicle access using modern technology

Dig­i­tal vehi­cle access is based on sev­er­al wire­less tech­nolo­gies. Blue­tooth Low Ener­gy (BLE), Near Field Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (NFC) and Ultra-Wide­band (UWB) com­ple­ment each oth­er per­fect­ly. This results in secure and con­ve­nient access solu­tions.

Blue­tooth Low Ener­gy (BLE) enables ener­gy-effi­cient com­mu­ni­ca­tion between the vehi­cle and a mobile device. Autho­rised users are recog­nised as soon as they approach.

Ultra-Wide­band (UWB) mea­sures dis­tances down to the cen­time­tre. This means the tech­nol­o­gy pro­vides reli­able pro­tec­tion against relay attacks and enhances secu­ri­ty when unlock­ing the vehi­cle.

Near Field Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (NFC) enables vehi­cle access even when a smartphone’s bat­tery is flat. At the same time, NFC offers a high lev­el of device com­pat­i­bil­i­ty.

Digital keys for connected vehicles in fleet management

The Dig­i­tal Key for con­nect­ed vehi­cles sim­pli­fies the man­age­ment of dig­i­tal access rights. Vehi­cle keys can be shared secure­ly with fam­i­ly mem­bers, friends or col­leagues.

Access rights can be time-lim­it­ed or grant­ed on an indi­vid­ual basis. They can be changed or revoked at any time. This means that fleet oper­a­tors, mobil­i­ty providers and car-shar­ing providers in par­tic­u­lar ben­e­fit from effi­cient vehi­cle man­age­ment. There is no need to hand over a phys­i­cal key.

Digital keys for connected vehicles as the foundation of future mobility

“To ensure these appli­ca­tions meet the high­est stan­dards of con­ve­nience and secu­ri­ty, IAV devel­ops com­pre­hen­sive dig­i­tal key solu­tions,” explains Math­ias Krause, team leader at IAV.

The dig­i­tal key is far more than just a replace­ment for the tra­di­tion­al car key. It forms a cen­tral foun­da­tion for soft­ware-defined vehi­cles and dig­i­tal mobil­i­ty ser­vices. With its exten­sive devel­op­ment and inte­gra­tion exper­tise, IAV sup­ports vehi­cle man­u­fac­tur­ers in the rapid inte­gra­tion of secure access solu­tions into series pro­duc­tion. Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary teams devel­op scal­able solu­tions for exist­ing vehi­cle plat­forms. In doing so, they meet the high­est stan­dards of qual­i­ty, secu­ri­ty and user-friend­li­ness.

IAV GmbH Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr

IAV is one of the world’s lead­ing engi­neer­ing and tech­nol­o­gy part­ners and, as a tech solu­tion provider, devel­ops holis­tic solu­tions for com­plex tech­no­log­i­cal chal­lenges. For over 40 years, the com­pa­ny has been com­bin­ing in-depth domain knowl­edge with soft­ware, sys­tems and engi­neer­ing exper­tise to bring inno­va­tions to fruition quick­ly and reli­ably. Its range of ser­vices extends from Soft­ware-Defined Vehi­cles (SDV), mod­ern pow­er­train sys­tems and dig­i­tal engi­neer­ing solu­tions to tech­nolo­gies for defence, ener­gy and mobile machin­ery. Around 6,500 employ­ees from more than 60 coun­tries work at over 20 loca­tions world­wide, sup­port­ing their cus­tomers through­out the entire devel­op­ment and inno­va­tion process – from the ini­tial idea to suc­cess­ful imple­men­ta­tion.

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Erwin Kartnaller

Erwin Kartnaller has been a fixture in Swiss trade journalism covering commercial vehicles and mobility for over four decades. After 16 years working for daily newspapers and family magazines, he moved into trade media and wrote for virtually every commercial vehicle magazine published in Switzerland, with very few exceptions. For nine and a half years, he was editor-in-chief of the Swiss Commercial Vehicle Association ASTAG's magazine, where his precise language and clear stance had a lasting impact on industry communication. This was followed by positions in the automotive industry, including at Eurotax autoinformation and aboutFLEET. He also wrote specialist articles for Auto&Wirtschaft and Auto Bild Schweiz. With his platform www.ekacom.com (http://www.ekacom.com/), he continued to wield his “sharp pen” – an independent voice for clear words and pointed commentary. In his last professional role as editor-in-chief of Polyscope, he immersed himself in the world of electronics – a field that is increasingly shaping mobility. Today, after his active professional life, Erwin Kartnaller is once again devoting himself entirely to his passion on the mobility-360.ch platform: mobility in all its facets.
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