Ways to work with us
Three ways to buy Hive.
Hive started as a service, with our own drivers and passengers and a tool built so the data reached the customer's engineers cleanly. The software grew out of that, so you can buy either, or both in turn.
Our team runs your test fleet
Hand us the keys and the DBC files. Our drivers and technical passengers run your cars on public roads or at the proving ground, single or double shift, with Hive in every car. You receive clean data, concise technical feedback, precise fault reports and snapshot data prepared for root cause analysis, and we author the test procedures if you ask.
The toolset, for your own team
The whole-vehicle testing toolset in your own team's hands, scaled to the fleet. Your drivers and passengers raise the issues and your engineers triage them, with Hive feeding the third-party tools already in your test environment.
Triage support around the clock
A dedicated team of triage engineers sort and prioritise your issues 24/7, and machine learning integrations in the toolset point your engineers at the trips worth opening first.
How test services run
How a test service programme runs.
- You hand over the keys and the DBC files.A test specification and loggers are optional inputs. Tell us what you have.
- Our drivers and technical passengers run the route.Public roads or the proving ground, single or double shift, weekdays and weekends.
- The data reaches your engineers already synchronised.In the same Hive tickets your own team would use.
- Outline data packets are ready by 08:00 the next morning.With the smart data analysis service, subject to network availability.
| LEVEL ADrive and capture | LEVEL BSmart data analysis | LEVEL CActive analysis, fast track |
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Everything in A, plus
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Everything in B, plus
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Each programme is scoped to its own fleet, dates and test plan. Data availability depends on mobile network coverage.
Where Hive is used
UAT, final evaluation units and whole-vehicle test.
User acceptance testing
Pre-launch validation of production-intent vehicles, with an independent, objective view for final engineering sign-off. Clean data and concise fault reports go to the product development teams, so their own engineers can spend the time on containments and countermeasures.
- High vehicle utilisation
- Clean data delivered
- Concise technical feedback
- Precise fault reports
- Fast data access, with no waiting for logs
- Snapshot data prepared for RCA
Final evaluation units
Cars in the hands of executives, journalists and engineers. Each observation is captured as a voice note with a network snapshot, feedback from executives and the press is prioritised ahead of gates, and every observation can be followed through root cause analysis to the fix.
- Most made of your fleet mileage allocation
- Single-operator mode
- Feedback captured precise, concise and technical
- Fast data access, with no waiting for logs
Whole-vehicle testing
Durability, climate, calibration, NVH, ADAS and homologation programmes, with network data synchronised to driver notes and embedded video and audio, so every discipline and site works from one record.
- Structured test planning
- Integrated test data
- Concise reporting
- Fast, connected data access
- System analysis that stays connected and accessible
Application areas