Traton Group's Traton One OS, the operating platform for future International trucks, will feature Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System.
The company hopes to create a more standardized environment for suppliers, technology partners and internal teams with a safety-certified Linux foundation.
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"Linux provides an open and scalable foundation for Traton One OS," says Stefan Teuchert, senior vice president, EE platform, at Traton. "By collaborating with Red Hat, we are making it easier for technology partners to work with our software platform and contribute new capabilities for future commercial vehicles."
Traton says the Linux-based software will make some commercial vehicle functions easier to maintain, secure and update over its lifecycle. For suppliers and technology partners, the common foundations, clearer interfaces and container-based approaches can reduce integration complexity and help new capabilities move more efficiently into vehicles and services.
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"Software-defined vehicles require a flexible, safety-certifiable foundation that can keep pace with rapid innovation without compromising reliability," says Francis Chow, vice president and general manager, in-vehicle operating system, Red Hat. "By leveraging Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System, Traton Group plans to adopt an open, Linux-based platform that helps simplify partner integration and streamline software updates worldwide across the commercial vehicles of the group's brands."
The collaboration is non-exclusive, Traton says, and forms part of a broader ecosystem for software-defined commercial vehicles.
