BENGALURU: Detroit-headquartered automotive technology firm Pi Square Technologies opened its India tech centre in Bengaluru on Friday. The India centre will focus on innovative product development and embedded engineering services for global automotive and OEM giants including several Fortune 500 companies.
Key focus areas of the India tech centre are emerging automotive technologies such as in-vehicle infotainment, connected vehicles, Advanced Driver-Assistance System (ADAS) leading to autonomous driving, battery management systems, Software-Over-The-Air (SOTA) update, cyber security, functional safety among others.
The Bengaluru facility has provisions for a cutting-edge automotive lab and R&D centre. More than 120 engineers will be working at the tech centre initially and the numbers will be scaled up to 1,000 over the next two years.
The tech centre, located at Karle Town Centre SEZ in North Bengaluru, was inaugurated by IT Minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan. Speaking on the occasion, Ashwath Narayan said that Pi Square Technologies’ new automotive tech centre in Bengaluru endorses the City’s tag as the technology and R&D capital of India.
“Bengaluru houses more than 400 R&D centres in various technologies. Glad that Pi Square Technologies is opening its automotive tech centre here. With cars becoming increasingly software-driven, the Silicon Valley of India will play a major role in the global automotive industry in the years to come,” the minister added.
“The India tech centre is an important part of our growth strategy. We are strengthening our strategic partnerships with global automotive majors to achieve greener, safer, innovative and efficient mobility solutions for the world. As a global enterprise, we would like to continue to be at the forefront of futuristic automotive technologies,” said Pi Square Group president Sarat Kothapalli.
“The opening of Pi Square’s India tech centre is a major step towards realising our goal of advancement in product innovation, and value-based capacity development for delivering excellence. It paves the path for our next steps towards a stronger and highly efficient Managed Services Delivery System,” said Pi Square India CEO Srinivas Raju.
Founded in 2015, Pi Square Technologies is a Michigan (USA) headquartered company, specialising in providing design services in automotive embedded technologies, IOT, digital transformation (IT) and multimedia production. (ANI/NewsVoir)