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In the automotive industry, operating companies frequently distribute their products on a global scale. Thismeans that they need to take note of global mega-trends in addition to local standards and developments in their targetmarkets. When it comes to


connected car applications, this translates into a need to ensure that the networked vehicles will operate in the various different infrastructures to be found world-wide. This poses a real challenge. The world is changing ra pidly along with the weighting of themarkets. In addition to the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), an increasing number of emerging newly industrialised countries are coming into focus as promisingmarkets automobile producers, such


asMexico, for


Indonesia, Nigeria, South Korea and Turkey (MINT/MIST countries), andmore recently, Vietnam, Bangladesh andmany other African States .


These countries often skip whole stages of infrastructure evolution and immediately adapt the latest available techniques such as 4G/LTE or its future successor, 5G. To take Nigeria as an example, infrastructures such as wired networks are virtually non- existent in thismobile phone growth market. This has had an impact on the systems that are used in vehicles.


In addition, new players such as Internet and technology giants Google and Apple, as well as e-mobility pione ers such a s Tesla, have entered themarket.


Automobile companies can respond to this by increasingly diversifying their offer. They canmake this happen by developing remote diagnostic


technologies for predictivemaintenance services or investing in leased car and share carmodels. The IoT is the basis for all these connected car approaches. EBV helps its customers to gain an overview of connected car s and relate d opportunities, provides technical support surrounding the IoT, and organises


technical seminars on applications and/or verticalmarkets .


ARADIGM SHIFT FOR IT SECURITY Connected cars represent a paradigmshift for companies in the automobile industry: previously, autonomous systems were connected to the Internet and data that was hitherto inaccessible was transmitted and processed in cloud applications This makes thempotentially vulnerable and greatly increases demands on information and IT security.


PARADIGM SHIFT FOR SECURITY .


What is clear is that the corporate sector will not abandon traditional, standardised systems that have been perfected over many years without it being completely


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example, radar and cameramodules can supply data to intelligently analyse a situation, which the connected car then uses in its assistance systems to actively support the driver. EBV has traditionally been strong in this area.


ojects - for companies and for EBV Support. New approaches are sought, for example, looking at the hierarchy of control units. It is now necessary for the new systems to intelligently integrate autonomous


necessary. The transfer of today’s bus and on-board vehicular systems into a secure, web-enabled communication platformis, therefore, a focal point in connected car proj


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components. This could be bymeans of a central gateway with integrated firewall, which shields the internal, particularly security-related components of the vehicle network over the Internet.


The central components of a connected car strategy are the networking of systems in the car, a connection to a mobile infrastructure in the vehicle, the ability to connect to the Internet, and the way in which vehicular systems connect with their surroundings.


Networking of Vehicle Components : Many cars today are equipped with field bus systems such asMOST, LIN, CAN, and FlexRay. They network the systems in the vehicle and ensure fault-tolerant, time- triggered communication between electronic components, often between sensors, actuators and control computers. In this way, they oftenmeet tough, real- time requirements. Theymust also directly and securely implement steering or braking commands, for example .


Sensors are an integral part of the range of topics related to connected cars. So for


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By actively networking connected cars with manufacturers and workshops, new control and maintenance services are made possible


By actively networking connected cars with manufacturers and


workshops, new control and maintenance services are made possible


In-Car – Connection to themobile infrastructure: Smart phones are used as an interface to the Internet inmany connected car applications. In order to connect to a connected car internal system, various differentmethods can be used, such as Bluetooth/Low Energy (BLE), WiFi, USB/USB-C, NFC, MHL, or evenMirrorLink. Radio technologies an d wireless chargingmodules in particular promise a high degree when it comes to the i


smartphones and vehicle systems. Car2X – Connect to the Surroundings and the Internet: A connected car can communicate with its surroundings via a mobile network or WLAN. However, previous WLAN technologies were primarily designed for stationary


operation and the dynamics of amovin g car can pose problems. The consequence was that radio signals could not be reliably transferred in Car2X


communication. The newWLAN standard IEEE 802.11 p (USA: Dedicated Short Range Communications, DSRC; EU: IST- G5) addresses these very issues.


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Vodafone, reported that in early 20


million networked machines that autonomously


machines that autonomously


communicated on their mobile network, enabling applications such as connected driving, Industry 4.0 or eHealth


Industry 4.0 or eHealth


communicated on their mobile network, enabling applications such as connected driving,


odafone, reported that in early 2016 there were16 there were


There are alsomany requirements linked tomobile communications as well: the futuremobile communications standard 5G will benefit fromtransfer speeds of up to 10GBit/s As vehicl es will be defined a s the endpoint in the sequence, each vehicle will ideally utilise the full


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alalready approximately 34ready approximately 34 with high-quality cabling. million networked


bandwidth. This requires the car to have the ability to handle particularly fast data processing, in addition to being equipped


The external antenna plays a crucial role in this, having evolved froma littlemetal rod


to an intelligent over the years


communication centre. These smart antenna can undertak e an increasin g number of tasks in the car, frombeing an RF transmitter and receiver of technology formobile communications andWLAN, navigation and entertainment, including digital data processing, right through to embedded security.


As an experienced specialist distributor for electronic components and solutions, EBV Elektronik has been consolidating its skills and experience in these areas for many years, and today they come


together under the terms connected ca r and IoT. In addition to the distribution of chips andmodules, EBV provides in-depth advice and technical support.


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