The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services established in 1886. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. As a leading IoT provider, Bosch offers innovative solutions for smart homes, Industry 4.0, and connected mobility.
Bosch Engineering GmbH (BEG) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bosch Group and is head-quartered in Abstatt, Germany. As a systems development partner to the automotive industry since 1999, the company with its more than 3,000 associates offers development services for powertrains, safety and convenience systems, and electrical and electronic systems - from the original concept to series production.
BEG's spearhead product for the motorsport industry is RaceConnect: a cutting-edge LTE solution that enables location-independent live transmission of telemetry data, as well as storage and post-processing. This includes hardware, connectivity solutions, software services and system integration expertise.
In this context, Storm Reply was chosen to modernize and renew RaceConnect leveraging on the power of the AWS Cloud. Storm spent several months working back-to-back with BEG's team, and the project resulted on a cloud-based telemetry platform with a renewed resiliency, scalability and improved security, which is able to keep up with the strict latency requirements imposed by the motorsport domain while at the same time saving 30% of running cost with respect to the existing solution.
Due to the project's great success, RaceConnect has been showcased at Reply’s booth in AWS Summit 2023. There, BEG kindly provided Storm Reply with a physical set of sensors that were able to simulate a race car running on a virtual track, collecting telemetry data and transmitting them to the AWS Cloud. Attendants were able to open a Grafana dashboard and play around with the metrics and the different visualization options.
The new RaceConnect platform sprouted from the passion of Bosch and Reply for both motorsports and cutting-edge technology: their enthusiasm and committment was able to push the boundaries of what's possible, and together they were able to make a difference in the world of motorsports.