Il cruscotto Smart per e.GO Life

MTA News – Luglio 2019

Il produttore tedesco di auto elettriche e.Go Mobile ha deciso di affidarsi al cruscotto Smart per la sua e.Go Life, una city car elettrica a 4 posti.
Smart è stato scelto dall'OEM per la compattezza, le linee moderne e la capacità di supportare grafiche 2.5D, simili a quelle dei videogiochi; tutte caratteristiche che soddisfano perfettamente lo stile moderno e high-tech di questa vettura innovativa.

MTA Studio, il software sviluppato per personalizzare cruscotti e centraline elettroniche, è stato altrettanto decisivo per la scelta, grazie alla sua flessibilità che ha permesso agli ingegneri di e.GO Mobile di personalizzare il dispositivo in base alle loro esigenze specifiche dell'applicazione.

Abbiamo chiesto direttamente a Daniel Franze, Senior Manager Electric / Electronic di e.GO, di spiegarci come il nostro software, insieme al team MTA dedicato, hanno supportato e.GO durante la fase di sviluppo.

“MTA Studio met all our needs to create a functional and visual appealing cluster instrument. With MTA Studio in our hands we have a tool which is easy to learn and enables us to create a customised User Interface.

At first, I want to mention the easy to use management tools to define and set up the in- or outputs whether we are talking about the CAN Interface or the physical I/O’s, analog or digital. All necessary parameters can be edited in a Graphical User Interface and results in an automatic generated code. This has the advantage that a change in a parameter doesn’t result in a complete redo of a certain part of the code but just in a reconfiguration in the Graphical User Interface of MTA Studio. The task creation and management were also fast manageable with all the necessary parameters in one place.

Next to the information created in the application an important thing is the User Interface itself. The path which was chosen here by the creators of MTA Studio is what you see is what you get. This makes it easy, even for people who have never created a User Interface and enables them to fill it with life as well. We were thus able to create the complete dashboard including setting menus in one device which is controlled by an external CAN device. All relevant data is also provided from external sources and could be embedded fast and easy.

During the complete development we kept close in touch with the development team of MTA Studio to include more specific functionalities in the BSP library such as for example a global alpha value for the graphic elements to implement fading effects with one single image. If any questions occurred the response was really fast.”