STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor supplier serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, recently announced a new platform to accelerate the introduction of digital car keys, providing consumers with keyless access to vehicles through their mobile devices.
In addition to strengthening security, digital car keys can offer greater convenience to the owner, including customizable usage privileges, while continuing to protect the vehicle. Activities such as car sharing, fleet management and vehicle rental gain benefits such as easier key issuance, usage and access controls for valet and maintenance.
“Leading automotive brands can now quickly build standards-based, secure access solutions that deliver added value to vehicle owners and users,” said Laurent Degauque, Marketing Director, Secure Microcontrollers, STMicroelectronics. “Our automotive-grade embedded secure element-based solution ensures next-generation protection to lead widespread adoption in the digital key market for connected cars.”
Based on ST Automotive's latest Secure Element hardware, the global solution, developed in collaboration with Giesecke+Devrient (G+D), supports the latest Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) version 3.0 digital key standard, ensuring the highest security and protection. currently available.
“As a long-standing partner in security and connectivity for the automotive sector, G+D brings extensive experience in the area of access control for cars,” says Mario Feuerer, vice president of global product management connectivity at G. +D. “Our G+D Digital Key® application, based on the new ST chip platform, is highly resistant to attacks and features smart and convenient customer access solutions based on NFC, Ultra-Wide-Band and BLE.”
ST's STSAFE-VJ100-CCC vehicle system-on-chip solution is based on the CC EAL6+ certified automotive grade 2 ST33K-A secure IC, integrating Java® Card applications. The SoC stores credentials and other sensitive information and performs cryptographic operations necessary to implement CCC Release 3 digital key use cases such as owner pairing, key sharing, key termination/deletion. This provides a solid foundation for customers to build their digital automotive key solutions.
