3rd Edition Conference on

Automotive Electronics Theme: Next Generation Technologies in Automotive Electronics

7 December 2017: Hotel Crowne Plaza, Chennai

Post – Conference Report

Tamil Nadu Technology Development & Promotion Center of CII (An Autonomous Society of Govt of TN and CII), partnering with Technology Development Board, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India had organized the 3rd Edition - Conference on Automotive Electronics on 7th December 2017 at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Chennai with the theme “Next Generation Technologies in Automotive Electronics” and was chaired by Mr Amit Jain, CEO & Executive Director – Adv. Electronics, Technology & Development, UNO MINDA, NK Minda Group. This was an initiative to discuss the current and future trends in automotive electronics and offer an opportunity for stakeholders to establish synergy in the special area of interest.

L-R: Mr Sreeram Srinivasan, Member, Electronics Panel, CII Tamil Nadu & CEO, Syrma Technology (P) Limited, Mr Ashok Chandak, Sr. Director Global Sales and Marketing, South Asia-Pacific Automotive and India Sales, NXP Semiconductor, Mr Amit Jain, Conference Chairman, CEO & Executive Director, Adv Electronics, Technology & Development, UNO Minda, NK Minda Group, Dr Bindu Dey, Secretary, Technology Development Board, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, Mr Sathish Raman, Regional Director, CII – SR & Mr Srinivas Aravapalli, Senior Vice President & Head Product Development, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd,

Technology Development Board

Department of Science & Technology

Government of India

Participants

Around 350 senior personnel from diverse industries all over India and abroad representing CEO's, Industry leaders & senior executives attended this conference from companies like Ashok Leyland, Bosch, Tata Motors, Ford India, Honda, Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra & Mahindra, Toyota, Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, L&T Technology Services, Visteon, Tech Mahindra, Altran India, Siemens, Rane Group, Goodyear, MRF, Ceat Limited, Schneider Electric India, Minda, Hinduja Tech, Pricol, Simpson & Co, Bosch India, Harman, Continental Automotive, TVS Group, Valeo, TCS, CTS, Infosys, Wipro, Siemens, Ansys, Bosch, NXP, Mathworks, Vector, Dassault Systemes, IOCL, Stratasys, Delphi, Autodesk.

The key speakers at the Inaugural Session of the conference were:

Mr Sreeram Srinivasan, Member, Electronics Panel, CII Tamil Nadu & CEO, Syrma Technology (P) Limited Mr Amit Jain, Conference Chairman, CEO & Executive Director, Adv Electronics, Technology & Development, UNO Minda, NK Minda Group Mr Srinivas Aravapalli, Senior Vice President & Head Product Development, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd Mr Ashok Chandak, Sr. Director Global Sales and Marketing, South Asia-Pacific Automotive and India Sales, NXP Semiconductors Dr Bindu Dey, Secretary, Technology Development Board, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India

Discussions on the role of industry in the next generation technologies in automotive electronics were held by dignitaries.

The snippets of the discussion are shared below:

“Import intensity is likely to increase due to increasing use of electronics, presently 65 to 70% of auto electronics are met through imports from China & Taiwan. There is poor competitive advantage due lack of infrastructure for electronic components and R&D capability.” Mr Sreeram Srinivasan, CEO, Syrma Technology (P) Limited

“Electronics content per car set is to

increase rapidly in turn the overall cost of

electronics in a car to increase from 30% in

2017 to over 45% in 2030. Connectivity is

the fastest growing domain in Automotive

Electronics with a higher perceived value

driving and rapid adoption.”

Mr Amit Jain, Conference Chairman, CEO & Executive Director, Adv Electronics,Technology & Development, UNO Minda, NK Minda Group

“In the future, cars will be able to communicate

with other cars, traffic signals, parking slots and

third party service providers. With such

increasing computations and connections, it is

of great relevance to harness the data and

analyze it to improve mobility solutions. ADAS

could create a significant improvement in road

safety, if implemented.”

Mr Srinivas Aravapalli, Senior Vice President & Head Product Development, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd

“To ensure a safe & secure mobility, 90% of the innovations are through electronics like Secure Interfaces (SE); Secure Gateway; Vehicle Networking etc. Safe Autonomous Systems is another revolution in all senses, where the control is taken away gradually from the driver.” Mr Ashok Chandak, Sr. Director Global Sales and Marketing, South Asia-Pacific Automotive and India Sales, NXP Semiconductors

“Using about Rs 610 crore, Technology Development Board signed more than 400 agreements with industrial concerns including Seed Support to Incubatees at TBIs, Venture Capital Funds, Global Innovation and Technology Alliance (GITA), Millennium Alliance (MA), INVENT programme with DFID India. A MoU has been signed with Bpifrance for technology commercialization in Automotive; Aeronautics & Biotechnology” Dr Bindu Dey, Secretary, Technology Development Board, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India

SESSION 1: ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Presentations on electric vehicles were given by:

- Mr P Bala, Co-Founder & CTO, Ampere Vehicles - Mr Binoy Paul, Engineering Director, Visteon Corporation - Dr M P Vijayakumar IAS (Retd), Trustee/Director, Bannari Amman Institute of

Technology

Outcome of the session

“The main technological challenges faced by Electronic Vehicles(EV) in vehicle power storage are battery energy density or battery weight, battery cost, battery life and reducing battery stress management of peak power, reduced power for higher torque and fast charging stations.” Mr P Bala, Co-Founder & CTO, Ampere Vehicles

“Disruption is creating a market for the new products and in this process the existing product may get destroyed. Electric vehicle is one such

disruption. EV’s are comparatively more powerful, efficient and cheaper to maintain.”

Mr Binoy Paul, Engineering Director, Visteon Corporation

“Electric vehicles have grown from 1 percent of 2016 auto sales to 8 percent by 2030, and will increase to nearly one-third of market share in 2040. But the first main concern should be to establish charging stations as they are an important element to help growth of this sector.” Dr M P Vijayakumar IAS (Retd), Trustee/Director, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

SESSION II: VEHICLE CONNECTIVITY

Presentations on vehicle connectivity were given by:

- Mr Sanjeet Srivastava, Managing Director, Accenture Services Private Limited - Mr D Suresh, CEO, Spark Minda Technical Centre (SMIT), Minda Corporation Limited - Mr Sameera Damle, Head- Technical Sales & Engineering, ETAS India - Mr Nandagopalan C, Principal Engineer – Electronics, Mahindra & Mahindra - Ms Monika Jaipuriar, Vice President - Automotive Engineering, MapmyIndia

Outcome of the Session

“AV depends on advanced sensing technologies to perceive the environment. The integration of

sensors will be critical for HW costs. In 2020, an average autonomous car may process 4,000 Gigabyte (=4 Terabyte) data per day which is equal to 2,666 internet users’ data consumption for which data processing approaches like big data processing and edge analytics are required “

Mr Sanjeet Srivastava, Managing Director, Accenture Services Private Limited

“Information Technology invasion is leading to a change

in business landscape & opportunities. OEMs are actively

working on solutions in emerging technologies. Spark

Minda is actively engaged with various OEM’s and

Partners to find local and innovative solutions for India

that is moving towards the direction of Automation,

Connected Mobility and Electrification.”

- Mr D Suresh, CEO, Spark Minda Technical Centre (SMIT), Minda Corporation Limited

“Over-the-air(OTA) is a revolutionary way of eliminating costly and inconvenient recalls for software updates. It can be realized in multiple ways depending on the OEM strategy and vehicle E/E constraints. The safety compliance for OTA solutions should be an inbuilt characteristic of the solution. The alignment between safety and security teams is the key to achieve safe and secure OTA” Mr Sameera Damle, Head- Technical Sales & Engineering, ETAS India

“In our country, the automobile revolution, and

telecom revolution went hand-in-hand over the last

two decades. Technology leaps after technology

leaps in both automotive and telecom sectors;

has led to a truly converging era of connected

cars. The main driver for rapid proliferation of

“Connected technology” is the availability of

high internet bandwidth at an affordable cost.”

Mr Nandagopalan C, Principal Engineer – Electronics, Mahindra & Mahindra

“We initiated our first Smartphone based Navigation with Tata motors and Harman SmartAppLink, where phone would become a server and the device would be the client to project and show navigation. Since then, we have been working on various other connectivity layers like Bosch mySPIN, Pioneer AppRadio, MirrorLink, SDL to name a few.” Ms Monika Jaipuriar, Vice President - Automotive Engineering, MapmyIndia

PANEL DISCUSSION: SHARED MOBILITY – IMPACT ON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS AND TECHNOLOGY

The discussion was shared by:

- Mr Selvakumar Rajendran, Managing Director, Accenture Services Private Limited - Mr Pavan Kumar, Managing Director, Altair Engineering India - Mr Mantha Venkataramana, CEO, Assystem Technologies India Pvt Ltd - Mr Sivakumar Songappan, Leader, IP development, AllGo Embedded Systems Pvt Ltd

The Panel Moderator for the session: Mr Ravi Jakhodia, CEO, Minda iConnect Pvt Ltd.

The snippets of the discussion are shared below:

“There are mainly three things to address, enough value, incentive for users to not invest in vehicles but invest in Shared Mobility and Security. The technology service companies have a lot of business future due to shared and connected mobility.”

- Mr Selvakumar Rajendran, Managing Director, Accenture Services Private Limited

“Shared Mobility puts new demands on the design of the vehicle and the whole concept of the vehicle changes.”

- Mr Pavan Kumar, Managing Director, Altair Engineering India

“The Shared mobility market will see 30% growth by 2030 and the current growth of automotive vehicle is going to stagnate and end up around 2% by 2030. This will help bring down the Carbon footprint by 37%. The number of EV's and hybrid cars are expected to increase and around 300 – 350 new variants of EV cars bare to be launched by all the OEM by 2030.”

- Mr Mantha Venkataramana, CEO, Assystem Technologies India Pvt Ltd

“When it comes to Autonomous vehicle and shared mobility, the risk comes to safety of the passengers and security of the data, which leads to a demand for need of cyber security. Also, engaging the user while they are utilizing the shared mobility in the vehicle, or entertaining them in the vehicle in a secured and safe manner is going to be a predominant factor in Automotive sector.“

- Mr Sivakumar Songappan, Leader, IP development, AllGo Embedded Systems Pvt Ltd

SESSION III: POWER TRAIN, BODY ELECTRONICS, VEHICLE – SAFETY & SECURITY

Presentations on power train, body electronics, and vehicle – safety & security were given by:

- Mr Thalavai Venkatesan, Head - Key Account Management, Continental Automotive Components

- Mr Richard Puthota, Sr. Director, Alpha Assembly Solutions - Mr Shinto Joseph, Director – South East Asia Operations, LDRA Technology Pvt. Ltd. - Mr Brahmanand Reddy Patil, Managing Director, Vector Informatik India Pvt. Ltd

Outcome of the session

“Today’s hybrids are add-on hybrids with, a highly sophisticated internal combustion engine (ICE), combined with a customized electrification solution. This is not optimum from a system perspective, that is performance & cost wise, and makes today`s hybrids expensive. About 45% of all vehicles globally will be electrified by 2030, in order to achieve that target, 69% of all vehicles in the established markets needs to be electrified.” Mr Thalavai Venkatesan, Head - Key

Account Management, Continental Automotive Components

“Electronic and thermal interconnects are present in all levels of automotive electronics systems. These interconnects are critical to improving performance and efficiency of key automotive electronics systems. They are critical in reliable conveyance of power, information and heat. Advanced materials (e.g. high reliability solder materials and sintered materials) are available to dramatically increase such performance and enable new applications.” Mr Richard Puthota, Sr. Director, Alpha Assembly Solutions

“For Safety arena, first step is to remove all the

detectable defects related to the high level

language. This is achieved by comprehensive

programming standards such as those of MISRA

for C and C++. For Security arena, there should

not be any vulnerability in code, design and

architecture which leads to exploitation. The

code should not contain any exploitable

construct which could be abused for

exploitation”

Mr Shinto Joseph, Director – South East Asia Operations, LDRA Technology Pvt. Ltd.

“E/E Development is a one integrated

engineering model for increasing the

efficiency and quality by a single-source

principle. There is traceability in data and

process with uniform user interfaces and

usability. The support of multiple product

lines and improved transparency has

enabled in improving communication

between teams and reducing training

efforts and maintenance efforts.”

Mr Brahmanand Reddy Patil, Managing Director, Vector Informatik India Pvt. Ltd SPECIAL SESSION:

Special Session with Technology Development Board (TDB), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India on Future of Electric Vehicles included:

- Dr Bindu Dey, Secretary, TDB, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India - Ms Hemalatha Annamalai, Founder & CEO, Ampere Vehicles - Mr P Bala, CTO, Ampere Vehicles - Dr S Chandrasekar, Director, Strategic Sourcing & Corporate Relations, Roots Group

of Companies - Mr K Suresh Kumar, Executive Director – PSG-Science & Technology Entrepreneurial

Park (PSG-STEP) - Mr P Manikandan, Head of Engineering – Electric Mobility, Robert Bosch

The special session was moderated by: Ms Hemalatha Annamalai, Founder & CEO Ampere Vehicles

Outcome of the session

“The Technology Development Board is open to support technologies that are being recognized and have sufficient funds to do so. There are lots of issues in an Indian context of what we can do and what are the specific issues India needs, in Tamil Nadu the EV policy has to be created as it is proving to be hub for the Automotive sector. That can be done by reaching out to NITI Aayog, who's now driving Electric Vehicle policy.”

- Dr Bindu Dey, Secretary, TDB, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India

“Any Electronic Vehicle manufacturer will want their plant to be placed in India, this way at least 30% of Indigenization will happen in our country, for this we need to ensure that core engineer is working in core engineering jobs, as against the current 80% who are working in software economy.”

- Ms Hemalatha Annamalai, Founder & CEO, Ampere Vehicles

“The current Lead Acid Battery is enough for short distance up to 45 kms. There has to be more research put into the usage of Lithium Ion batteries. The Electric vehicles will be more suitable for Tier2, Tier3 and Tier4 Cities. EV manufacturing in these Tier towns will bring new jobs.”

- Mr P Bala, CTO, Ampere Vehicles

“We have to have a standard EV policy for better quality output. There should also be subsidies for Battery management System. The Government can support on battery technologies and supplement funds for Research and Development in this sector.”

- Dr S Chandrasekar, Director, Strategic Sourcing & Corporate Relations, Roots Group of Companies

“We have to create awareness that there is a good business opportunity because of the electrical vehicle changes that will happen in 2030 & 2040. Present entrepreneurs have a good potential and this message has to be transferred to the business community, especially to MSME's by Technology and Business opportunity workshops, awareness programs etc.”

- Mr K Suresh Kumar, Executive Director – PSG-Science & Technology Entrepreneurial Park (PSG-STEP)

“There is a slow shift from ICE to ICEM, which is Internal Combustion Engine to Integrated Connected Electrical Mobility. This is gaining momentum in the last couple of years. But the designing of electrical machine for propulsion application and design consideration for electric mobility market has a long way to go. For this the education system has to be designed in way to empower students to bring in such an electrical system in India”

- Mr P Manikandan, Head of Engineering – Electric Mobility, Robert Bosch