The Software Defined Car: Convergence of Automotive and Internet of Things

Abstract

By the year 2020 an entire new generation would have grown up with mobile phone, high speed broadband, cloud services and apps for everything on smart device and at their fingertips, they are the “digital natives”. This is mainly due to the megatrend “digitalization” of services fueled by the Internet of Things (IoT), which has the power to disrupt every industry and everything around us. It will completely change the way we live, play, work, pay, travel and drive. IoT is rapidly transforming the automotive industry from connected car to full autonomous car, enabling new consumption and monetization models such as car sharing, pay-as-you-drive, etc. 5G systems have a key role to play in order to make the vision of the full autonomous car a reality however there are a few challenges it will have to address in order to accommodate all the autonomous driving use cases discussed in this chapter.