“Innovating Transportation – From Road to Cloud!” is a tagline from Continental at IAA Transportation 2024 in Hanover, Germany from September 17 to 22.
Continental at IAA Transportation 2024
Continental will present its broad portfolio of commercial vehicle solutions: cutting-edge hardware such as high-performance computers (HPC); software and advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) functions that define the vehicle of the future; comprehensive services that increase safety and compliance; and innovative truck and bus tyres and air springs that improve sustainability and efficiency of the transportation industry. Also on display is a development truck, set up in collaboration with the company’s partner Aurora, that incorporates many of the solutions for the autonomous commercial vehicle of the future.
At Continental’s booth C41 in hall 12, trade fair visitors will experience the company’s latest solutions for commercial vehicles and the transportation industry and get to know the experts behind them in person.
Intelligent Services and Software-Defined Vehicles
At IAA Transportation 2024, Continental will present cutting-edge HPCs and software alongside a complete ecosystem spanning from the road to the cloud, enabling the software-defined vehicle (SDV) as well as autonomous driving functions. These include a high-performance computer for the commercial vehicle cockpit and a cross-domain zone control unit, which integrates the power supply for the cockpit and ADAS components.
In addition, Continental will showcase its Automotive Edge framework CAEdge, a cloud-based development environment which facilitates efficient, safe and rapid development and testing of vehicle software. CAEdge is the base for several pre-development projects the company is currently working on with various OEMs to design the commercial vehicle architecture of the future.
Amongst the intelligent services presented in Hanover that use real-time data to increase process automation and efficiency will be two new iterations of Continental’s ContiConnect digital tyre management solutions ContiConnect Lite, a mobile-only solution with many advantages of data-supported tyre monitoring, quickly and cost-effective, using Bluetooth to transfer tyre sensor data.
ContiConnect Pro, the all-encompassing solution for digital tyre management and prediction services, provides a comprehensive overview of the fleets’ tyre health, including alerts and the display of data in a web portal and mobile app.
Improving Road Transport Sustainability
At IAA Transportation 2024, Continental will provide tangible evidence of how it utilises material competence to support the transport industry in reducing its impact on the environment, e.g. with the Tough RuNR air springs. The company’s material experts have substituted synthetic rubber with natural rubber improved by a high-performance ethylene-propylene-diene rubber (EPDM). By doing so, the rubber compound’s carbon backpack is reduced by more than 50% while achieving the same product performance.
Continental will also highlight how the use of recycled materials, improved recyclability of materials and how the use of bio-based materials will improve the environmental impact of air springs in the future. Continental will also showcase innovative technological solutions for the new energy vehicle (NEV) such as thermal management for battery-electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles. At its pre-series stage is Continental’s newest bus tyre that not only boasts a very low rolling resistance but also combines a high share of recycled, renewable and mass-balanced certified materials and is also EV-compatible.
Autonomous Transport Solutions
Autonomous technology has the potential to increase road safety and make the transport of goods more efficient, mitigating major global supply chain challenges like the ongoing driver shortage. Through an exclusive partnership, Continental and Aurora are developing the world’s first scalable Level 4 autonomous trucking system with a planned start of production in 2027.
Continental will provide deeper insights into its progress with Aurora to develop and manufacture an automotive-grade Level 4 autonomous system at scale. After finalising the design and architecture of the Aurora Driver hardware and a future fallback system earlier this year, Continental will present the new industrial fallback system. It is a specialised secondary system that can take over operation if a failure occurs in the primary system, e.g. a key component or sensor breaks or fails.
Road Transport Safety
Continental focuses on providing OEMs with turnkey solutions that make their trucks compliant for European roads, from radar sensors, cameras and safety systems to intelligent and connected compliance devices.
In this context, two intelligent global tachograph solutions will be part of Continental’s exhibition, contributing to increased safety by helping to enforce the regulations of the EU Mobility Package and providing safe and reliable data services: the smart tachograph (V2) DTCO 4.1 and the plug-and-play solution VDO Link. Visitors to Continental’s booth can also experience a new truck tyre that offers energy efficiency combined with outstanding braking performance.
