Connected cars will send twenty five gigabytes of data to the cloud every hour
Connected cars will send twenty five gigabytes of data to the cloud every hour
For most of us, the living room is the most connected room in the home. But within a few years that honor might extend into the garage instead.
Connected cars, which carry embedded mobile broadband chips and on-board computers, are about to switch everything about the way we live with cars.
Twenty-five gigabytes: that’s how much data a connected car will upload to the cloud every hour (PDF). That’s equal to about a dozen HD movies and exceeds the storage capacity of most smartphones today. What’s the car telling the network in such superb volume?
The brief response is: data about everything. Its route, its speed, the wear and rip on its components, and even road conditions. Vehicles today have about forty microprocessors and dozens of sensors that collect telematics and driver behavior data, and that data can be analyzed in real-time to keep the vehicle’s spectacle, efficiency, and safety in check. It also provides vital feedback for cities and states about traffic volume and roadway design.
Clarion’s award-winning Wise Access platform is beginning to bring the infotainment system to automobile manufacturers. The platform’s advanced cloud-based service enables vehicles to share and analyze the data they generate, but also has entertainment components, permitting passengers to get onto social media, view vehicle information, and connect various other apps to their car.
Brainy Access owes its “intelligence” to Hitachi, whose wise protocols permit machines to communicate with one another and sync themselves with intelligent infrastructure. Finding insights amongst machine data is something Hitachi has been doing for decades.
The influence of that machine data will be enormous. With clever infrastructure and driver telematics promising to relieve traffic and reduce driver error, over Ten,000 fatalities and as many as 500,000 injuries might be preventable every year in the United States alone.
Those kinds of improvements will take time and switches in both public and private realms but by 2016, over 1/Trio of all circulating cars in Western Europe should be connected thanks to EU legislation. That proportion will reach about 90% by 2020.
However, laws won’t be necessary to convert most drivers to newer, more connected vehicles. Besides the safety benefits, there’s quality of life to consider: the typical American commuter spends two hundred fifty hours a year in his or her car. The combination of autonomous driving and in-car entertainment could permit drivers to read e-books, communicate with colleagues, witness documentaries, or browse their vacation photos–without fear of their inattention causing a collision. That’s a destination all cars should head towards.
Read more about Hitachi’s vision for social innovation for transportation.
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