With more than 20 years of experience, Pi Innovo offers end-to-end solutions to global OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. Always striving to help customers overcome technology constraints, resource crunches and tight product development budgets.
Engineering Services
Pi Innovo brings a deep understanding of automotive process, engineering knowledge, regulations and commercial norms to every customer engagement. This ensures that work is not only technically excellent, but delivered appropriately for production or prototype programs. Our engineers have a range of backgrounds, not just in automotive work but also in electronic and controls engineering, computer science, mathematics and physical sciences, providing the knowledge required to really understand engineering problems.
Since our first work on production-related systems, we have maintained a clear focus on engineering quality, applying best practice methods where necessary, yet tailoring process requirements to individual projects to avoid unnecessary cost and timing burden where it is not needed. While Pi Innovo has its own accredited processes, we are equally comfortable working to clients’ process requirements when required. Successful accreditations include: AutomotiveSPICE level 3, ISO 9001:2008, and ISO 26262 is now gaining focus. Pi Innovo is comfortable working with multiple clients, strictly maintaining agreed IP and publicity boundaries.

- 20 Years of Diesel Engine Control Design with Detroit Diesel
- Custom Designed Multi-Megawatt Engine Controller
- OpenECU Used to Develop Military Vehicle ABS/TCS/ESC Production System Control Software
- Production High Performance Engine Management Systems for Aston Martin
- ABS / TCS / ESC
- Advanced system concept demonstrators
- Common Rail Diesel
- GDI (Gasoline Direct Injection)
- LPG / CNG / LNG Fuel System Controller
- PFI (Gasoline Port Fuel Injection)
Systems Engineering

- Custom Designed Multi-Megawatt Engine Controller
- EMS and V-Model ECU Development Process Knowledge Transfer for Chinese OEM
- Land Rover Electric All Terrain Vehicle
- Lycoming Dual-Redundant Safety-Critical Electronic EMS for Aircraft Application
- OpenECU for Developing Semi-Active Suspension Control
- ABS / TCS / ESC
- Active and Semi Active Suspension
- Advanced system concept demonstrators
- Autonomous Vehicle Supervisory Control
- Common Rail Diesel
- Communication Gateways
- Diesel Exhaust After-treatment
- GDI (Gasoline Direct Injection)
- Hybrid Vehicle Control Integration
- PFI (Gasoline Port Fuel Injection)
- Supervisory Control
- Two-stroke engine control
- Various novel / experimental engine technologies
Controls and Application Software
In addition to ECU hardware and low-level driver software, Pi implements embedded controls in either C language or model-based Matlab Simulink. Both approaches can achieve modular control logic, architected so that separate principles within a large system can be developed separately.
Software development and architecture design for production is a unique skill apart from regular software development. At Pi Innovo, we know the difference between rapid prototype development and true production software development. For our production software customers, we spend time developing a modular architecture that will grow with the inevitable expansion and refinement of the software. All software will change. Architecting with this in mind to minimize the time spent doing non-value added code development is what we do best.

- OpenECU Gasoline Engine Control Strategies Replace Production Bosch EMS
- OpenECU Series Hybrid Control System for Protean Electric Vehicle Durability Testing
- OpenECU Used to Develop Military Vehicle ABS/TCS/ESC Production System Control Software
- Production Heavy Duty Diesel Engine Controls Software Development
- Production High Performance Engine Management Systems for Aston Martin
- Production Passenger Car Diesel Engine Controls for Ford Puma Engine
- ABS / TCS / ESC
- Active and Semi Active Suspension
- Common Rail Diesel
- GDI (Gasoline Direct Injection)
- Hybrid Vehicle Control Integration
- PFI (Gasoline Port Fuel Injection)
Custom Platform Software

- After treatment Production Controller Development
- Custom Designed Multi-Megawatt Engine Controller
- Motorcycle Radio Infotainment System Design & Manufacture
- Production ECU Replaces Existing Bosch ECU for VW Citi-Golf Engine Control
- Production High Performance Engine Management Systems for Aston Martin
- Bespoke Production vehicle infotainment components
- Common Rail Diesel
- Diesel Exhaust After-treatment
- Infotainment product for harsh environments
- PFI (Gasoline Port Fuel Injection)
Custom ECU Design
Although Pi is best known for the OpenECU product line, a large and growing portion of our business is to provide fully custom electronics hardware designs for clients in multiple markets; automotive, commercial vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, power generation and other niche markets.
Pi Innovo designed products either in production or going to production include:
- Automotive gasoline engine controller
- Heavy truck diesel engine controller
- Piezo injector driver module
- Multi-megawatt natural gas engine controller
- Diesel exhaust aftertreatment controllers
- Unmanned aerial vehicle engine controller
- High performance radio
- Chassis controllers
- Brushless direct current motor controller
- Specialty Airbag Module
- Other niche applications.

- 20 Years of Diesel Engine Control Design with Detroit Diesel
- After treatment Production Controller Development
- Custom Designed Multi-Megawatt Engine Controller
- Custom Electronics Solution for Sensorless BLDC Motor Control
- Custom Injector Drive Module for Novel New Piezo CNG Injector
- Custom Injector Drive Module for Propane Autogas Injectors
- Lycoming Dual-Redundant Safety-Critical Electronic EMS for Aircraft Application
- Motorcycle Radio Infotainment System Design & Manufacture
- Production ECU Replaces Existing Bosch ECU for VW Citi-Golf Engine Control
- BLDC motor applications
- CNG / LPG Injector Driver Module
- Common Rail Diesel
- Diesel Exhaust After-treatment
- PFI (Gasoline Port Fuel Injection)
- Piezo And Solenoid Injector Drive
Advanced Technology Development
Pi Innovo’s OpenECU products and Engineering Services are ideally suited to support your advanced technology development projects, providing a cost-effective and flexible approach to hardware and software development for immature systems where the requirements, designs and implementation remain in flux as work progresses. The configurability and scalability of OpenECU hardware supports rapidly-changing systems architectures and variations in component, while the OpenECU software development environment provides for controls development that is abstracted from the hardware in such a manner as to allow development of software and system to progress concurrently without placing undue constraints on either activity.
Pi Innovo’s baseline control strategies (gas/diesel engine, EV, etc) are targeted at developers of novel techniques, systems and components in related fields, giving engineers a starting point for advanced development projects that minimizes the time spent on creating baseline control models.
The scalability of the OpenECU product offering allows for an easy transition from one-off prototyping and proof-of-concept activities into controlled testing and fleet trials and on to low-volume production deployment without the need to change either hardware or software.

- Applying Electronic Control to a Mechanical Powertrain Component
- Gasoline Engine Control Strategy for Powertrain Optimization Using a Novel Gearbox Design
- Novel Hydraulic Energy Storage System for Jaguar Hybrid Vehicle
- OpenECU Enables Rapid Design and Control System Calibration for LIFECar
- OpenECU in prototype Jaguar Land Rover electric vehicle
- Advanced system concept demonstrators
- Common Rail Diesel
- Various novel / experimental engine technologies
Specialty Services
Process Development Services:
Pi Innovo’s Business Management System (BMS) is based around the requirements of ISO9001-2008 and ISO15504 Automotive SPICE and provides a full suite of operational and project-level processes serving the Organization as a whole, Quality Assurance, Project/Program Management and Engineering departments. These processes have been developed to deliver efficient and effective methods of planning and executing tasks in a controlled, repeatable and measureable manner, providing the ability to objectively track progress against a set of business and/or project goals. Through tailoring, continuous process evaluations and ongoing improvement activities Pi Innovo strives to maintain an optimized set of processes that can be easily adapted to meet changing business and project needs. Drawing from Pi Innovo’s extensive experience in this area, we offer process development and improvement services to our customers via Process Engineering consulting services. Typical activities range from process evaluations and gap analyses through process improvement support to process development and assistance with process implementation and ongoing maintenance. These services have been provided for electronics hardware, software and systems development customers in the automotive and aerospace electronics industries.

- Autonomous Vehicle Supervisory Control
- CNG / LPG Injector Driver Module
- Hybrid Vehicle Control Integration