Tech/security provider Thales has announced it is working in partnership with French tyre manufacturer Michelin to protect its Intellectual Property and deploy its software to customers around the world, with the Sentinel software monetisation platform.
Michelin is now transitioning to software-led revenue, with TameTire being one example of Michelin’s software offer that allows car manufacturers and motorsports teams to simulate real-world tyre performance to a high level of accuracy.
Using complex algorithms, TameTire predicts tyre behaviours in reaction to various forces, torques and temperatures to help manufacturers produce better-handling car models at reduced costs, as well as allowing motorsports teams to test and fine-tune their vehicle setups in a more convenient and safer environment.
TameTire is just one of several simulation products that Michelin deploys and protects using Thales’s Sentinel. Others include Canopy, which provides laptime simulation, vehicle modelling and setup exploration in record time, using the power of cloud computing and a proprietary collocation solver; and Simix, an initiative that provides datasets for vehicle manufacturers, racing teams and automotive supply chain organisations covering components, such as tyres, chassis and suspensions.
Michelin relies on Sentinel’s ability to license software on premises, in the cloud and any combination of the two.
While TameTireis typically deployed offline or in a hybrid environment, CanopyandSimix are deployed exclusively in the cloud, leveraging the Sentinel Cloud License Manager.