The present invention relates to a method for securely connecting a vehicle and a Bluetooth key, a vehicle Bluetooth module and a Bluetooth key. The method comprises: when a vehicle Bluetooth module successfully establishes a Bluetooth communication connection with a mobile terminal installed with a Bluetooth key, the vehicle Bluetooth module receiving an authentication request from the Bluetooth key, wherein an authentication manner of the authentication request is simple authentication or common authentication; when the authentication manner of the authentication request is simple authentication, the vehicle Bluetooth module performing security authentication on the Bluetooth key according to the simple authentication manner, and sending an authentication result to the Bluetooth key; and when the authentication result indicates that authentication fails, or the authentication manner of the authentication request is common authentication, the vehicle Bluetooth module performing security authentication on the Bluetooth key according to the common authentication manner.

A system is provided and includes a receiver and an access module. The receiver is configured to receive a signal transmitted from a portable access device to a vehicle. The access module is configured to generate a differentiated signal based on the received signal, up-sample the differentiated signal to generate a first up-sampled signal, up-sample an expected signal to generate a second up-sampled signal, cross-correlate the first up-sampled signal and the second up-sampled signal to generate a cross-correlation signal, determine, based on the cross-correlation signal, a phase difference between the first up-sampled signal and the second up-sampled signal, determine a round trip time of the signal received by the receiver based on the phase difference, and permit access to the vehicle based on the round trip time.

Provided is a unified system between a fleet of heterogeneous vehicles and the vehicles' heterogeneous cloud services for delivering a unified user interface to remotely control the fleet of vehicles. The system performs several functions, including obtaining digital vehicle tokens for each vehicle, which allow commands to be triggered on the associated vehicle clouds to manage the vehicles. Sets of APIs corresponding to the vehicle clouds are obtained, and when a user sends a request for a specific vehicle, a digital user token is generated and mapped to the vehicle's digital vehicle token. Subsequently, when user commands for managing the vehicle are received, the system constructs vehicle commands using the APIs of the vehicle's cloud service. Finally, the digital vehicle token and the vehicle commands are transmitted to the corresponding vehicle cloud for executing the commands and managing the vehicle accordingly.

Road vehicle comprising a powertrain system; an ignition system for the powertrain system comprising in turn a slot integral with the passenger compartment of the road vehicle and configured to receive and accommodate a key for the ignition of the road vehicle; wherein the ignition system comprises a detection system, configured to detect the presence or absence of the key at the slot, and a control unit, which is connected to the detection system and to the powertrain system and is configured to enable the power supply to the powertrain system only when the key is detected at the slot.

An apparatus and method for provisioning a security key for vehicle control are provided. The apparatus may include at least one processor, and a hardware security module (HSM) including at least one first memory storing at least one program executable by the at least one processor. The at least one processor may de-obfuscate an obfuscated security key set included in an HSM operating firmware when powered on and may store the de-obfuscated security key set in a second memory.

Provided is a unified system between a fleet of heterogeneous vehicles and the vehicles' heterogeneous cloud services for delivering a unified user interface to remotely control the fleet of vehicles. The system performs several functions, including obtaining digital vehicle tokens for each vehicle, which allow commands to be triggered on the associated vehicle clouds to manage the vehicles. Sets of APIs corresponding to the vehicle clouds are obtained, and when a user sends a request for a specific vehicle, a digital user token is generated and mapped to the vehicle's digital vehicle token. Subsequently, when user commands for managing the vehicle are received, the system constructs vehicle commands using the APIs of the vehicle's cloud service. Finally, the digital vehicle token and the vehicle commands are transmitted to the corresponding vehicle cloud for executing the commands and managing the vehicle accordingly.