Wind River Studio Over-the-Air Updates
Secure, Reliable Delivery of Software Updates to Edge Systems
Wind River® Studio Over-the-Air Updates accelerates time-to-market, reduces maintenance costs, and increases the lifetime value of intelligent edge systems by orchestrating the secure, reliable delivery of software updates to widely distributed assets. Eliminate the need for expensive recalls when updating a device kernel, application software, firmware, or configuration.
BENEFITS
- Accelerate time-to-market: Faster, cheaper, more reliable updates in the field accelerate time-to-market by reducing exposure to negative impacts from bugs and vulnerabilities.
- Reduce maintenance costs: Simplify service logistics and eliminate the expense of recalling fielded products to service centers by deploying updates over the air.
- Improve product lifespan and value: Extend product lifespan and reduce total cost of ownership by enabling new capabilities and value in fielded systems.
- Enable new revenue opportunities: Increase customer lifetime value by identifying and capturing new revenue op portunities after the initial sale.
KEY FEATURES
Deliver Updates to Fielded Devices
Studio Over-the-Air Updates orchestrates delivery of update campaigns to deployed assets, purpose built for modern intelli gent edge systems. It leverages a decentralized client-agent model to deploy scalable, flexible updates to edge devices and the diverse subsystems they contain. Gain visibility and control across the fleet at any scope through a uniform interface.
Efficient, Reliable Distribution
Differential update technology provides efficient, cost-effective, and reliable updates to fielded device fleets. Updates include data, metadata, and policies to ensure that operating system (OS) kernel, application software (SOTA), firmware (FOTA), and configuration (COTA) updates are applied to the right components in the right order. Update status across the fleet is continuously monitored and available.
Automated Policy Enforcement and Rollback
Enforce embedded policies for device selection, rollout and timing control, regulatory standards, and more, based on flexible criteria such as device region or version, network conditions, user preferences, and compliance goals. Failure criteria ensure that failed or interrupted updates are gracefully rolled back.
Secure, Compliant, and Traceable
Studio Over-the-Air Updates leverages PKI-based encryption to secure data in transit and at rest, from the root of trust to the edge device. Certificates can be tied to a unique hardware device identity, ensuring fine-grained authentication and authorization control. The Studio platform provides end-to-end traceability with logging, monitoring, notification, and full role-based access controls.
Adaptable and Open
Studio Over-the-Air Updates supports both manual and automated workflows via GUI and CLI. It is built on open standards such as eSync; provides APIs for custom applications and enterprise integration; and streamlines the development experi ence for upgradable, extensible edge devices.
Studio Over-the-Air Updates enjoys a common user experience and integration with the broader Wind River Studio develop ment, testing, and deployment environments. It includes out-of-the-box support for VxWorks®, Wind River Linux, Wind River Helix™ Virtualization Platform, and OCI containers. Update campaigns work natively in Wind River Studio Pipelines.
USE CASES
- Security updates: Distribute high-priority updates over the air, ensuring that your device fleet remains available and secure while avoiding the time and expense of bringing devices into a service center for updating.
- Bug and performance fixes: Automate deployment of defect and performance fixes into the field, improving security and reducing costs.
- Targeted maintenance: Leverage flexible selection criteria to deliver updates only to users or devices that have pur chased an appropriate license and have an active maintenance contract.
- On-demand fulfillment: Enhance user satisfaction by enabling on-demand add-ons and personalized experiences that are fulfilled over the air.
- Increase customer lifetime value: Capture additional value from existing users and devices by making new features and content available for purchase.
- Automated testing in pipelines: Execute update campaigns as part of CI/CD/CT pipelines, deploying over the air to virtual or physical devices in the testing environment. Once testing and release criteria are satisfied, deploy updates to devices in the production environment.
