Connected Car Ecosystem Enablement – An ecosystem of value co-creation
As the four technology trends reshape today’s global automotive sector, customer preferences are affecting from its traditional strongholds, including chassis & engine development. All such new entrants & the disruptive trends they bring—electrification, diverse mobility, autonomous driving, and connectivity – will transform vertically integrated automotive value chains into the complex and horizontally structured ecosystem.
The connected car ecosystem is the ever-increasing collection of technologies which underpin the growth of the connected car industry. Bringing order to such the dynamic array of disciplines is not straightforward. One can diagram the vehicle IoT ecosystem in a number of ways, such as OEM vs. third-party solutions, onboard vs. external solutions, and so on.
How Connected Car Ecosystem Enablement improves safety?
As the technology in automotive sector continues to accelerate, the number of devices which can potentially connect to them increases. All such devices are intended to make driving the car safer for passengers, drivers & other road users. When connected cars ecosystem is able to communicate with town & city infrastructure like ‘smart roads’, traffic lights and up-to-the-minute warning systems, the high number of traffic accidents is very likely to be considerably reduced. Drivers will receive the most modern reports on potentially dangerous road & weather conditions, upcoming collisions and diversions in their direct vicinity & any other need-to-know information will be sent straight to their dashboard.
There have been frequent reports on the improvements in safety that driverless cars or connected car ecosystem enablement will provide, with some car makers going so far as to suggest that their self-driving cars will be an even safer alternative than connected cars which have a driver behind the wheel. Whether or not this is true is yet to be confirmed, but what we do know is that sensory technology lets connected cars to recognize & respond to risks on the road, as well as recognize each other, creating a much more aware driving environment that will no doubt play a huge role in road & passenger safety.
Advanced IoT platforms
There are various other significant criteria that distinguish IoT platforms between each other, such as customizability, scalability, ease of use, integration with 3rd party software, code control, deployment options, & the data security level.
Customizable: It is a crucial factor for the speed of delivery. It intimately relates to the flexibility of integration APIs, louse coupling of the platform components, and source code transparency. IoT promises to enhance customer relationships, offer a personalized and tailored ecosystem, drive business growth, 3rd part integration, and revolutionize industrial performance. In this evolving the ecosystem, businesses need partners who combine technical expertise with domain knowledge, innovation, and industrial scalability.
Secure: Data security involves comprehensive identity management, encryption, & flexible deployment. Moreover, the end-to-end data flow encryption that includes data at rest, user access rights management, device authentication, & private cloud infrastructure for the sensitive data – this is the basics of how to pass up potentially compromising breaches in your IoT solutions.
IoT has enabled the creation of the multitude of personal applications & services for the better understanding of urban environments & your personal lives. These services are driven by the continuous collection & analysis of user data in order to offer personalized experiences. There is a strong need to address user privacy concerns as most of the collected data is of sensitive nature. It is more & more beneficial that IoT includes security & privacy monitoring components into IoT ecosystem. With AI/Data-driven approach all such components enable not only reporting of existing security issues but also generate some insights to prevent the security incidents.
Final Thoughts
Cutting across all such aspects, there are two paradigms of IoT solution cluster deployment provided by IoT platform providers, AirLinq – a self-hosted private IoT cloud and a public cloud IoT PaaS. There is an important capability of the modern IoT platform that consists of the private IoT cloud enablement. As opposed to the public PaaS solutions located at the provider’s cloud, a private IoT cloud can be hosted on any cloud infrastructure that also includes a private data center. This type of deployment provides much greater control over new features development, third-party integrations, and customization. It is also advocated for performance requirements and stringent data security.
We at AirLinq, are the leading IoT platform providers, string investments in technology assets, end-to-end product engineering expertise, co-innovation & experience across domains come together to offer end-to-end connectivity management services to build digital platforms, connected products, & solutions that enable servitization. We are continuously accelerating the development & deployment of the large scale EUICC management, connected applications around the smart mobility & Car data monetization for automakers, mobile network operators, and consumers around the world.