Traditionally, to design a product to communicate with vehicles, tool manufacturers need to build / buy communications hardware, license vehicle-specific datastreams, and build an application. Of these requirements, the vehicle datastream is the most complex and time-consuming. Since the datastream will typically only work on a specific vehicle or model line, data must be added to effectively reach a broad target market. What’s more, the licensed datastream may be incomplete, loosely validated documents -- if available at all. After consolidating the datastream, the data still has to be validated. Finally, the developing company can begin making the product. Giotto AS is a paradigm shift in developing vehicle diagnostics products. The company makes it possible for developing companies to concentrate only on the design of their products.
AutoEnginuity's Giotto AS (Application Server) is platform-neutral and can be integrated into any computing platform or mobile device. It offers the first ever turn-key vehicle communications solution, according to the company, and allows a developing company time-to-market never seen before for 58 OEMs. A company can connect and communicate with Giotto AS via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or ethernet. The server is controlled by JSON-base format protocol. For example, retrieving trouble codes from all systems on a vehicle, users need only send “retrieve_dtcs." The Giotto AS will respond with a package of DTCs for each controller on the vehicle. It’s that easy, the hardware protocols and the vehicle datastream are completely hidden from the application.
