[ Here is exactly where we add value, and where we will point you elsewhere ]
Automotive software spans two very different worlds. One is safety-critical embedded work governed by functional safety standards. The other is the cloud, mobile and retail layer around the vehicle — telematics, charging, ownership, service and sales. Techtaru Digital is an automotive software development company working in the second and integrating cleanly with the first. Here is exactly where we add value and where we will point you elsewhere.
Automotive software spans two very different worlds. One is safety-critical embedded work governed by functional safety standards. The other is the cloud, mobile and retail layer around the vehicle — telematics, charging, ownership, service and sales. Techtaru Digital is an automotive software development company working in the second and integrating cleanly with the first. Here is exactly where we add value and where we will point you elsewhere.
Tell us what sits inside the vehicle and what sits around itcloud, mobile and analytics systems around the vehicle and the dealer network.
data pipelines, device connectivity, backend platforms and companion apps.
OEM systems, finance and insurance providers, parts catalogues, registration authorities and telematics vendors.
replacing fragmented dealer and aftersales systems incrementally.
driver, owner, technician and dealer-facing apps.
SLA-backed support for live telematics and charging platforms.
Device ingestion at fleet scale, trip reconstruction, driver behaviour scoring, geofencing, fuel and battery analytics, and hardware-agnostic normalisation so you are never locked to one device vendor. Operators running deliveries pair this with fleet and dispatch systems.
Vehicle data pipelines, remote commands, companion apps, subscription feature entitlement and over-the-air update orchestration on the cloud side.
OCPP-based charge point management, session handling, tariffs and billing, roaming via OCPI, driver apps with live availability, and network utilisation reporting.
Battery health dashboards, range and route planning with charging stops, fleet electrification analytics and depot charging schedules.
Inventory and stock ageing, leads and test drives, sales and delivery, service bays and job cards, parts, warranty claims and dealer accounting.
Online configurators, price and finance calculators, booking and deposit flows, and used-vehicle marketplaces with inspection reports.
Catalogue with fitment data, multi-warehouse stock, dealer ordering portals, supersession handling and returns.
Service reminders, workshop scheduling, digital vehicle health reports with technician video, estimates and approvals, and customer retention analytics.
Utilisation, maintenance compliance, contract and residual value tracking, driver allocation and end-of-lease settlement.
Warranty pattern detection, predictive service demand, charging network utilisation and dealer performance benchmarking.
what sits inside the vehicle, what sits around it, and where our responsibility starts.
sources, volumes, protocols and access testing before any estimate is finalised.
pipeline design with hardware-in-the-loop testing where devices are involved.
by region, dealer group or fleet segment.
monitoring, alerting and capacity planning as fleet or network size grows.
Connectivity: MQTT, OCPP 1.6J and 2.0.1, OCPI, CAN data via gateway, AWS IoT or Azure IoT Hub. Backend: Java, Go, Node.js, .NET. Data: TimescaleDB or InfluxDB for vehicle telemetry, Kafka for event streaming, ClickHouse for analytics. Mobile: Kotlin, Swift, Flutter. Frontend: React with map-heavy dashboards using Mapbox or HERE. Integrations: OEM APIs, finance and insurance providers, parts catalogues, payment gateways, registration and compliance systems.
Know which side of the safety line you are on. ISO 26262 governs functional safety for electrical and electronic systems in road vehicles, with ASIL ratings from A to D driving process rigour, and ISO/SAE 21434 governs automotive cybersecurity engineering across the vehicle lifecycle. Software that can influence vehicle behaviour falls in scope and requires specialist embedded processes and toolchains. Cloud platforms, apps and dealer systems generally do not — but they interface with in-vehicle systems, so the boundary must be designed deliberately. We are explicit about this rather than claiming capability across the whole stack.
Charging runs on open protocols, and you should use them. OCPP is the de facto standard between charge points and management systems, with OCPI covering roaming between networks. Proprietary charge point communication locks you out of hardware choice and roaming partnerships later.
Vehicle data is high volume and high sensitivity. A connected fleet generates telemetry continuously, so the pipeline needs time-series storage, edge aggregation and retention tiers rather than a relational table. Location data is personal data under GDPR and India's DPDP Act, making consent, retention limits and purpose restriction architectural requirements rather than policy documents.
Dealer systems are integration projects. DMS work lives or dies on integration with OEM systems, finance providers, insurance, registration authorities and parts catalogues. We inventory those interfaces before estimating, because they typically dominate the timeline.
Fixed scope for telematics apps and integrations; dedicated squads for charging and dealer platforms; managed support for live networks.
Indicative cost: telematics and app projects typically start around $25,000–$55,000. Charging and dealer platforms are larger programmes delivered in phases. Timelines: telematics or driver app, 10–14 weeks; charge point management platform, 4–6 months; DMS programmes, 6–12 months phased.
A credible automotive software development company will be clear about where its expertise stops. Tell us what sits inside the vehicle and what sits around it, and we will scope the part we can deliver well.
No. Safety-critical embedded development under ISO 26262 requires specialist teams and toolchains. We build the cloud, mobile, analytics and retail layer and integrate with your embedded suppliers' interfaces.
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