Gigatronics

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GIGATRONIK Group

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legal form GmbH
founding 2001
Seat Stuttgart , Germany
management
  • Régis Sandrin-Guillon, management
  • Peter Mehrle, management
Number of employees 1116 (2016)
sales 119 million EUR (2016)
Branch IT, electronics
Website www.gigatronik.com

Gigatronik (spelling: GIGATRONIK) is a development and consulting service provider for electronics and information technology . The group of companies has been a subsidiary of the French company AKKA Technologies since 2017 . The Gigatronik Group is headquartered in Stuttgart and employs over 1000 people at locations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

history

The company was founded in 2001 in Stuttgart as a development partner for the automotive industry in the electronics and information technology sectors. This was followed by the establishment of further locations in Gaimersheim near Ingolstadt (2003), Munich (2003), Cologne (2007) and in Graz (2008) in Austria.

In 2009, as a joint venture between the Gigatronik Group (51%) and Audi Electronics Venture GmbH (49%), the company Electronic Fahrwerksysteme GmbH (EFS) developed and developed system software for chassis electronics as a development partner of AUDI AG and the VW Group integrated into the vehicle. An innovation and development center (IEZ) was built in Gaimersheim from 2013 to 2015, thus further expanding the joint venture. The IEZ opened in 2015 and is used as the joint headquarters of Gigatronik and EFS.

With the growing importance of embedded electronic systems outside of the automotive industry, Gigatronik expanded its business fields to include other branches of industry such as the agricultural industry , construction machinery , air and rail transport , mobile work machines , electromobility , medical technology and building technology . In order to serve these industries, the Gigatronik Technologies division was founded in 2010 with a branch in Ulm. In 2011, another Gigatronik Technologies branch was established in Alpnach, Switzerland, which moved to Sarnen (CH) in 2015. In 2010 the company Digitabel was founded, which was later renamed Gigatronik Mobile Solutions and formed a further corporate division.

In 2015, the company group split the organizational structure into individual divisions. The services have since been divided into the two business areas Embedded Solutions and IT Solutions and are offered equally at all company locations.

In 2017, the Gigatronik Group merged with the French development service provider AKKA Technologies . Gigatronik takes on a leading role within AKKA in the fields of digitization and the Internet of Things . Since March 2018, Gigatronik has appeared together with other companies in the AKKA Group under the name AKKA.

Fields of activity

One focus of Gigatronik's activities is the vehicle industry . There, Gigatronik is involved, among other things, in the development of electronic and IT elements in the field of autonomous driving . This includes the conception, development and networking of human-machine interfaces for vehicles. Gigatronik is also involved in the development of Car2X solutions and driver assistance systems as well as in the development of control units, for example for the hydrogen drive of a sports car.

In the field of electromobility , the company deals with the development of e-bikes , e-motorcycles and e-quads, among other things . Gigatronik's competencies range from drive controls and energy storage technologies to power electronics and vehicle electrical systems through to the development and networking of mobile application software .

The company is also working on developing solutions for the Internet of Things for industrial customers. In order to implement this as a whole, Gigatronik cooperates with telecommunications companies. In addition, the company deals with models and concepts for smart cities and the networking of different components for intelligent living .

Since 2010, the company has organized the annual A2A - Gigatronik Smart World Symposium , at which experts from business and research discuss concepts and technologies for the networked, digital world .

Products

With the Gigabox product family, the company offers its own prototype control units as solution components that can be used in various vehicle bus systems for the development and simulation of vehicle functions as well as test and diagnostic purposes.

With the product powerAIDER , the company also offers a power supply for measurement technology components, which serves as an interface for testing and developing on- board networks in motor vehicles. The specialty of the powerAIDER lies in the validity of the measurement results. The powerAIDER is used as an interface between the vehicle's 12-volt electrical system and the 12-volt supply for the measurement technology. The possibility of separating both networks during active measurement prevents the on-board network from being influenced by the measurement technology.

Individual evidence

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  17. ↑ PresseBox: Gigatronik and Deutsche Telekom cooperate on customer-specific Internet of Things solutions - press release. Retrieved January 31, 2017 .
  18. ↑ On the way to the Smart City. (PDF) VI Virtual Innovation Forum, January 2016, pp. 12–13 , accessed on January 30, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Heise Medien IT & Career: The last one leaves the light on. (PDF) (No longer available online.) 2016, archived from the original on January 31, 2017 ; accessed on January 30, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cyberpress.de
  20. ↑ Not the Internet must in the car, but the car on the Internet - Esslingen - Esslinger Zeitung . June 15, 2016 ( esslinger-zeitung.de [accessed January 31, 2017]).
  21. ↑ Follow-up report to the Gigatronik Symposium. Hanser Automotive, accessed January 31, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Prototype control device GIGABOX gate. Retrieved January 31, 2017 .