{"id":2800,"date":"2018-12-01T19:16:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navveenbalani.dev\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2019-12-18T19:34:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T14:04:28","slug":"internet-of-things-connected-car-use-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navveenbalani.dev\/index.php\/articles\/internet-of-things-connected-car-use-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet of Things – Connected Car Use case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This article is part of IoT Architecture Series – https:\/\/navveenbalani.dev\/index.php\/articles\/internet-of-things-architecture-components-and-stack-view\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we deep dive into connected car use case, let\u2019s understand a vehicle in the context of IoT. A vehicle can be viewed as a complex system comprising of various subsystems like engines, wheels, doors, brakes, etc. employing many sensors, actuators which are typically controlled by many embedded software devices called an electronic control unit (ECU). Similar to our manufacturing use cases for an elevator, the vehicle subsystems needs to be monitored and serviced through condition and predictive-based maintenance and can employ IoT to derive these insights. As the user is now directly associated with his vehicle, new insights and business models can be derived from the connected vehicle solution. We will discuss more about it in the coming sections. Let\u2019s first start with a formal definition of a connected car. As per Wikipedia \u2013 \u201cA connected car is a car that is equipped with Internet access, and usually also with a wireless local area network. This allows the car to share internet access with other devices both inside as well as outside the vehicle.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a hardware perspective, the car can\nconnect to the internet, through built-in telematics boxes which connect to the\nInternet usually through GSM module (or\nthrough Bluetooth or WI-FI tethering via your Smartphone if telematics box\nsupports its) and it\u2019s tightly integrated with the car system. The other means\nof connecting the car is to plug-in a device to the OBD (on board diagnostics)\nport of the car to extract the vehicle data. The device can have an in-built GSM\nmodule or rely on internet connection from the Smartphone through WI-FI,\nBluetooth or a USB cable.  If you search\nfor the term \u201cOBD\u201d on Amazon, you would see tons of manufacturers\nproviding OBD devices, which can plug into any car OBD port. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note – OBD 2 port would be generally available in all\nmodern cars, however you still might have exceptions, so it\u2019s better to check\nyour car manual for support  (for\ninstance, from 1996, all cars in the US were required to be OBD II equipped,\nwhile in India, it was mandated from mid of 2013)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let\u2019s talk about the connected car use\ncase.  With millions of cars without\npre-fitted telemetry devices, a hypothetical start-up company thought of\nexploiting the area of the connected car.\nThe same technology from high-end cars\ncan be made available at a fraction of\nthe cost with\nvarious value added services. The start-up company decided to target the\nfollowing use cases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardware\nDevices<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n