10th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK), İstanbul, Türkiye, 17 - 21 Eylül 2025, cilt.9, sa.17, ss.1409-1413, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
The automotive industry is undergoing significant transformations with the growing adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies into the electric and hybrid vehicles. While the technological advances enhance driving safety and comfort, they also introduce new cybersecurity risks due to remote access functionality. Our work addresses the security in automotive systems by presenting an implementation of a secure end-to-end automotive driving assistant system with an Over-the-Air (OTA) software update mechanism. The proposed secure by design assistant integrates vehicle emulation, remote control features, driver profiling and road safety alerts, OTA software update management. Key hardware components include a Raspberry Pi-based vehicle emulator, a cloud-based central server, mobile-web user and admin interfaces and a secure OTA software update system compliant with international UN R156 regulation (Software update and software update management system). While the system was tested against common IoT security threats, performance metrics are deferred to future work. This research demonstrates the feasibility of building end-to-end secure automotive IoT systems and sets a foundation for future benchmarking and scalability analysis. Briefly, our work provides a comprehensive and regulation compliant environment for secure connected vehicle systems.