Performance Improvements To Reduce User Stress

About The Client

Our client is a leading team in premier F-Class motorsports with multiple grand prix victories, multiple World Championships, and multiple Constructors’ World Championships.

The electrical harnesses in a race car carry thousands of signals, routed through tens of thousands of pathways across hundreds of connections, to transmit power and data to and from over 100 sensors embedded in the vehicle.

The Client’s Challenge

Future Proofing For Increasing Complexity

The electrical systems on the race car grow in complexity with each season. An increasing number of components and sensors need meticulous management, as getting electrical harnesses wrong can have serious consequences on the operation of the car.

The Electrical Systems department anticipated the increase in workload, and proactively requested a strategy to update their toolkit.

The Solution

Optimisations, Algorithms, And More

We proposed an upgrade strategy grounded in a genuine Agile approach: software updates would be rolled out incrementally, enabling end users to benefit from enhancements immediately. We collaborated closely with them to explore and validate these improvements, and also worked with the manufacturing team to optimise the physical hardware testing process..

Our comprehensive overhaul introduced additional circuit validations, usability enhancements, and visualisations including:

– Updating algorithms to increase processing speed..
– Integrating graph and network algorithms to simulate circuit behaviour.
– Visualisation capabilities to facilitate easier tracing of Signals through the car
– Integration with external services and hardware.
– Updating the codebase to improve future development effort.

Selecting the Right Tools

Foundations In Electronics

Our background in Electronics enabled us to quickly establish a common understanding with end users, facilitating smooth discussions. This was coupled with our proficiency in code optimisation techniques that would enhance software performance, while graph theory would support the validation and visualisation algorithms.

Electrical Circuit and Component knowledge

Domain Exploration

Excel & Access Integration

Graph & Network Algorithms

Data Ingestion

Data Processing

Data Lifecycle

Graph Visualisation

Inspired Outcomes Start Here