Globes: Samsung opens Israel car cybersecurity center

Samsung unit HARMAN says the new hub will test and certify automotive cybersecurity, autonomous driving and smart mobility technologies.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. unit HARMAN International has announced the launch of the International Cyber Security Smart Mobility Analysis and Research Test (SMART) Range in Israel. The company said that SMART Range, in cooperation with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, CYMOTIVE Technologies, Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories and JVP, will fulfill the vision of an automotive development ‘playground’ in a smart-city environment, an innovation hub serving automakers, Tier 1 auto suppliers and academic research institutions for the testing and the certification of automotive cyber security, autonomous driving and smart mobility technologies.

HARMAN added that the SMART Range will function as a living lab within a smart-city environment encompassing all aspects of future mobility systems, including public transportation, private vehicles and personal mobility devices. The range will simulate a complex reality and enable effective testing of advanced technologies, assessment of human-machine-environment interfaces, evaluation of transport solutions in a future networked reality and operability and robustness testing of software and hardware systems against cyber threats.