Around the car

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Mercedes-Benz vehicles are outstanding, fascinating, desirable. With our contribution to the Mercedes-Benz Operating System (MB.OS), we are working on one of the Group's strategic core topics.

Hyperscreen integrated in the vehicle interior

Mercedes-Benz Operating System

MB.OS is the in-house operating system we develop together with Mercedes-Benz Research & Development and other tech hubs within the Group. The system intelligently connects all vehicle functions to each other. Customer relationship data, data protection and access to all vehicle domains such as infotainment, automated driving, body & comfort and driving & charging are centralized.

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Simply put, a digital twin describes the digital representation of objects of the real world. It is crucial that the digital twin reflects reality as precisely as possible. That's why we don't just talk about one digital twin, but about different digital twins of products, processes, systems and many more. They can be summarized in digital twins as a product, as a production depiction and as a vehicle depiction over the entire lifecycle. Only a holistic view and understanding of the interaction between product and production along the entire lifecycle ensures consistent data and information exchange and enables comprehensive optimization and quality assurance.

half digital, half physical car on the road

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A person presenting the technical structure of a car

Our product data management is the central source for all product-describing data and its documentation along the entire product life cycle. It includes, for example, 3D CAD data, specifications, component lists, change requests, codes and code rules. PDM connects systems, processes and products. Thus, it ensures the correct validation of our products in development, the proper production of vehicles according to the order and the identification of the appropriate spare part in the event of damage. For sales, PDM ensures that a customer can only order technically viable vehicles. By applying artificial intelligence to product data management, we improve and accelerate standardizable processes and thus ensure the highest quality, fast workflows and cost savings.

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Mercedes-Benz Intelligent Cloud

The Mercedes-Benz Intelligent Cloud is the digital foundation of Mercedes-Benz. It offers a reliable infrastructure, many frameworks, functions and processes as well as guidelines and applications for connected cars and MB.OS features. Among others, our Charging Station Platform solution and Software Update are operated on the Mercedes-Benz Intelligent Cloud.

Charging Station Plattform

The Charging Station Platform provides Mercedes-Benz customers with data and services related to charging stations for electric vehicles and services in the Mercedes-Benz environment such as charging station information from various providers, an availability forecast and the possibility of starting the charging process without a charging card (Plug & Charge). We are responsible for the entire development, operation, security and analytics of the platform.

Over-the-air software updates

Stay always fresh – that's what we expect from our software. With over-the-air updates, we live up to this claim. Software Update refreshes control units and apps at the touch of a button – regardless of whether the vehicle is at the customer's site, in an auto repair shop or still on the production line. Together with Mercedes-Benz units, we build essential parts of the Update and are responsible for upstream documentation, release and planning processes.

Driver and front passenger operating the hyperscreen in the vehicle

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We don't just keep an eye on future trends, we set them ourselves – for example with in-car apps for more safety, comfort and fun in the vehicle! In doing so, we not only have various apps in mind as end products, but also ensure optimal conditions for developers at Mercedes-Benz. With our own development environment, we simplify app development in the whole Group.

Onboard und Embedded

In the onboard and embedded environment, we develop control units for future Mercedes-Benz series. Our software intelligently combines the worlds of functions and mechatronics. Specific control units that give drivers a moment of good feeling before and during their journey are the Central Exterior and Interior Controller as well as the Mobile Access Unit for the digital key.

Central Exterieur und Interieur Controller

The Central Exterior and Interior Controller centralizes various control units and vehicle functions from the comfort and safety sector in one control unit. Functions such as ambient lighting and air conditioning, as well as the locking function and anti-theft device ensure that Mercedes-Benz drivers feel completely comfortable and safe while driving.

Digital Key (Mobile Access Unit)

Smart devices have become indispensable as smart, constant companions in everyday life. With smartphones, for example, credit cards and tickets have been digital for a long time now – so why not the car key? With our Digital Key, Mercedes-Benz drivers are no longer bound to a physical key, but always have it with them on their smartphone. Our Digital Key comes with additional advantages: it can be shared with several people and provided with properties such as time validity, speed/power limit or geofence.

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