At-a-Glance
| Challenge | How FoundriesFactory™ helps |
|---|---|
| Scaling EV-charger installations is hampered by infrastructure complexity and the need to ensure availability, accessibility, and ease of use. | The platform offers an out-of-the-box workflow that accelerates mass production and lets teams focus on their differentiating features. |
| Security is non-negotiable from software development through manufacturing and for long-term over-the-air (OTA) management. | End-to-end security with signed artefacts and TUF-verified OTA updates protects devices for their full life-span. |
| Traceability and certification require auditable, immutable evidence of compliance. | Every build is reproducible, automatically generates an SBOM, and is logged for lifecycle governance. |
| Fleet-wide root-CA and device-certificate rotation is complex and costly to engineer. | Built-in tooling automates root-CA updates and periodic device-certificate rotations—no on-site intervention needed. |
Why EV charger rollout is so difficult?
Availability, accessibility and ease of use of charging points is critical to the adoption of electric vehicles and to the success in the EV market.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), public charging and the interoperability of its infrastructure is key to enabling more widespread adoption of and more equitable access to EVs.
McKinsey reports that, “Forty-two percent of respondents… state that they will only move forward with an EV purchase if public-charger availability is equivalent to that of current gas stations”.
Scaling up EV charging units is recognised as being limited by a huge and notoriously complex set of challenges.
What makes this necessary upscaling so complex?
Security is a non-negotiable element of solution design Starting with software development, throughout manufacturing and for the long term via over-the-air (OTA) device management.
Traceability and certification are both essential Manufacturers are required to provide auditable and immutable surety of compliance.
Companies must be agile and focused on their competitive edge The market space is competitive and schedules are aggressive; manufacturers cannot afford for time consuming and complex management of intricate and nuanced software to hold them back.
Getting security right is notoriously difficult, particularly in certain critical CI/CD areas The ability to update Root CA certificate in the Linux® image OTA, rotation of the Device Gateway key pair, as well as scheduling of fleet-wide automatic periodic device certificate rotations require specific expertise that could potentially be prohibitively costly.
How the FoundriesFactory™ SaaS platform provides a smoother pathway to wider EV charger availability
A comprehensive platform backed by an ecosystem, expertise and consistently updated online resources The FoundriesFactory platform combines with Foundries.io’s Linux microPlatform and is complemented by a wealth of SoC knowledge, security expertise and production support
Shortened time to market Out of the box solution to jump-start mass production workflows; the FoundriesFactory platform integrates with your choice of development and target hardware
Simplified securing of devices during manufacture
- Automated installation and secure storage of required keys, certificates and credentials when the end device first connects to the internet
- API integrates with the manufacturer’s existing cloud, helping them stay in control
Security regulation compliance
- Immutable record of product lifecycle management for certification and governance purpose
- The Update Framework (TUF) implementation allowing key rotation to mitigate fleet ending threat vectors
Ongoing updates to EV chargers out in the field
- Regular OTA updates to maintain units on an ongoing basis
- Open Source Manifest providing traceability via LmP platform updates and visibility of timestamped code changes
- Targets come with Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) support for CVE investigations
Proven at Scale The FoundriesFactory platform backed by Foundries.io expertise and resources, is already helping manufacturers of EV charging units without the in-house expertise to upscale their operations, bypassing the complexities, controlling costs and staying in control of their applications.
Are you looking to offload complex underlying software systems to focus your expertise into your real value add activities?
- Launch a Community Edition factory – create a fully featured FoundriesFactory instance in under 10 minutes and run a test OTA update. No payment details required.
- Request a technical demo – our engineers will answer your implementation questions and demo our key features.