bangalore technological innovations are happening in a tearing hurry all over the automobiles industry resulting in a lot more smarter and efficient vehiclestoday electronic components and systems account for around 22 per cent of the cost of a highend passenger car and this figure is on the rise electronic systems now enable the manufacturer to deliver new features and to meet the mandatory regulation requirements relating to safety and emissions in a costeffective mannerat the heart of the emerging vehicle technology innovations is controller area network can like a local area network lan or wide area network wan which connects pcs servers and applications can is a typical vehicle network which has many control modules engine control modules transmission control modules body control modules communicating with each other on a realtime basissays b k ramesh gm of dearborn electronics india a leading company in the area of can with stringent limitations placed on the emission of gases for the automobiles it has become impossible to attain this level of control without the help of onboard computing devices these devices have also contributed substantially to vehicle performance occupant comfort ease of manufacturing and cost effectivenesswhereas at one time a radio was probably the only electronic device in a vehicle these days practically everything in the automobile has some electronic feature in it some electronic modules used in the vehicles today include engine control transmission control body feature control like power locks and power windows and entertainment like radio dvd player and telematics which include numerous multimedia applicationsaccording to jeff owens president of delphi delco electronics systems software content per vehicle has growing steadily at 20 per cent every year delphi has its second largest technical centre based in bangalore which is engaged in pure electronic activities for vehicles in fact leading automobiles major dailmerchrysler has a software development centre hereglobally leading automobiles majors such as ford general motors honda caterpillar dailmerchyrsler have embraced can in a big way in india it is now in the research and development stage however the vehicle manufacturers suppliers and defence sector in the country are seriously evaluating this for the deployment purposedearborn forms alliances dearborn electronics india part of the usbased dearborn is forming strategic alliances with a couple of indian software services companies to address the emerging vehicle networking market globally with our expertise in this niche area we would like to offer canrelated services to the external clients through these new partnerships says ramesh of dearborn electronics india in fact dearborn located in michigan area is the hub of automobiles activities in the us