LTTS, Blackberry partner to develop next-gen Software Defined Vehicles

Digital engineering company L&T Technology Services has collaborated with Blackberry on Tuesday. Blackberry, which pivoted to enterprise software and cybersecurity services provider in 2016, will be offering its QNX suite of automotive software solutions towards the partnership. These solutions will be leveraged to enable developing software defined vehicles (SDVs) for original equipment manufacturers. This will help expedite product time-to-market while ensuring safe and secure mission-critical solutions.

In this partnership, LTTS will integrate Blackberry’s technologies such as QNX Neutrino OS, QNX OS for Safety, QNX Hypervisor, BlackBerry IVY vehicle data platform, and QNX acoustics middleware — into its service offerings. To be sure, Blackberry’s QNX is a real-time operating systems (RTOS) for software developers. 

LTTS will deploy Blackberry’s solutions in building next-gen SDV platforms on high performance compute (HPC) and domain controllers with complex software architectures, and middleware that reduces time-to-market for end-customers. As part of this partnership, LTTS and BlackBerry will also jointly train engineers on QNX OS and QNX Hypervisor platforms.

“BlackBerry is a market leader for embedded software that requires functional safety, security and reliability. Through our collaboration with LTTS, our technology provides a trusted software foundation for the development and advancement of next generation Software-Defined Vehicles that will deliver enhanced user experiences, safely and securely,” said Dhiraj Handa, vice president, Asia-Pacific, BlackBerry IoT.

Notably, LTTS announced a similar partnership with AWS in October 2023. LTTS said that it will be using AWS’ products and services to help automotive manufacturers to transition towards SDVs using generative artificial intelligence (AI).

LTTS uses the AI code generator Amazon Codewhisperer as the preferred development environment for its engineering team. The recommendations by the AI tool help engineers to rapidly develop smart applications such as driver warnings, automated braking, and steering functions. Apart from CodeWhisperer, LTTS is also tapping Amazon Bedrock, which is a fully managed service that offers access to leading foundational models, to implement cloud-based vehicle test automation and reuse.