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CONNECTED CARS


ISSUE 03 2014


study expects four core categories of data – diagnostics, location, speed, and vehicle status – to be most important to automakers, suppliers, third parties and end-users.


Boyadjis also emphasises one of the key themes concerning CSPs in this and many other emerging market sectors: “The most important challenge this industry has in front of it is organising systems and defining roles in Big Data from the connected car. Who owns the data, the pipe, and the analytics is still yet to be determined, and will have to be before connected car data can be put to work efficiently.”


There’s certainly a growing blizzard of coverage and announcements around the connected car happening out


there. Just in the last month or so alone, MWC in Barcelona and the International Motor Show in Geneva played host to numerous demonstrations of connected car concepts, while CSPs, their supporting vendors and all the others in the digital services space like Google and Apple are issuing news releases almost weekly about joint ventures and partnerships with vehicle OEMs.


So where does LTE fit into this space and what are issues confronting CSPs? For Nakul Duggal, vice president of product management at Qualcomm Technologies: “The automotive sector is among the earliest of the M2M verticals to reach the point of maturity. The increasing sophistication of electronics systems built into today’s cars, combined with


In the last month or so, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and the International Motor Show in Geneva played host to numerous demonstrations of connected car concepts


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