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Mercedes Benz : The OEM will now test how safety on wintry roads can be improved with car-to-X communication. It is working with Telefonica Deutschland and network supplier Ericsson, putting in place the 5G mobile network for automobile production in its “Factory 56” in Sindelfingen, Germany.
BMW: The OEM has introduced ‘Remote Software Upgrade’ to ensure that the vehicle software in all BMW’s with Operating System 7.0 is updated at all times, just like a mobile phone.
Audi : Audi introduced the vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) service “Traffic Light Information” to Europe. This feature will allow Audi drivers to see in the cockpit what speed is required to reach the next traffic light on green.
JLR: Jaguar Land Rover is testing connected car services that will enable drivers to earn cryptocurrency and make payments on the move. The technology is called ‘Smart Wallet’ . It selected Spirent solutions to develop and verify next-generation automotive Ethernet in-vehicle networking.
SEAT: In March 2019, SEAT and Telefonica launched the ‘5G Connected Car’ pilot test in the framework of the 5G Barcelona project, which was aimed at promoting Barcelona as one of the benchmark European capitals of 5G technology
VW: Volkswagen annonced in Jan 2019 that it will deploy the OPTIGA Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 a security solution for the connected car from Infineon Technologies AG.
Ficosa : The supplier received European RED certification for its CarCom platform in June 2019. It has developed solutions for connecting cars with infrastructures and with other vehicles through the available technologies: both with DSRC (802.11p) and (C-V2X) technology
Continental: World`s fourth biggest automotive supplier by revenue has developed an adaptive voice-activated digital assistant for vehicles. With the digital assistant the company focuses on the most natural means of communication: the spoken words.
TomTom : In Sep 2019, TomTom announced that it`s navigation has been integrated with Microsoft connected platform.
Bosch : World`s biggest automotive supplier by revenue, Bosch demonstrated a cloud-based wrong-way driver alert system that can protect human lives form danger of encountering a wrong-way driver on freeways
Keysight Technologies : Entered into an alliance with Nordsys GmbH to combine the two companies’ cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) and testing competences.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the production across the entire automotive manufacturing industry declined. The key players such as BMW, Volkswagen, General Motors deferred their production plans due to the lockdowns imposed by the governments across the world.
As the increment and development of this market is directly proportional to the production of vehicles in the automotive sector, the growth rate was hampered. However, the growth has regained after the lockdowns uplifted but remained slow as compared to the one predicted. The growth of this sector will boost with the increase in governmental efforts for the development of intelligent car telematics, increase in demand for features offered by smartphones and driving automated technologies with passenger safety.
The growth strategies planned by several OEMs and first tier companies have failed due to the outbreak disrupting supply chain operations. As supply chain operations are hampered, the supply of electronic components and raw materials is affected that results in delays. As the market has started to recover, with China that accounts for more than 29% of the automotive car market has reopened and resumed activities.
The company LDRA, which is the provider of automated software verification and source code analysis in collaboration with OpenSynergy, a company specialising in automotive embedded software have started to promote a defence strategy in depth combined with hypervisor technology and secure coding technology in order to combat with the concern from hacks.
As of May 2021, Stellantis NV and Foxconn have joined together to form a subsidiary FIH Mobile to form a Mobile Drive with 50/50 voting rights to develop new in-cabin advanced technologies and entertainment capabilities
As of October 2020, Toyota Motor Corp in collaboration with KDDI Corp, Japan’s key automaker have decided to invest $500 million to extend their partnership for the mobile carrier. Toyota is set to buy 18.3 million worth of treasury shares from the company KDDI, this will boost the company’s stake from 12.95% to 13.74%, making the partnership whole.
In May 2020, Huawei, the ICT provider globally, collaborated with about 18 automakers in order to establish a 5G enabled ecosphere in automobiles to accelerate the commercialisation of the 5G technology. The collaboration includes First Automobile group, Dongfeng Motor Corporation, Chang’an Automobile, SAIC Motor Corporation, BYD Auto and many more.
In January 2020, the Volkswagen group and Aeris communication, IoT provider, announced their joint venture named Ventic LLC to develop connected vehicle technologies. The Volkswagen group has a 51% stake in the company with majority power hold over the operations.
An Indian company Kia, has taken lead over the connected car market with over the company’s 50,000 customers buying variants with UVO connect feature. The company has now launched a new model “Sonet” a compact SUV with a 10.25 inch touchscreen with advanced technology. They are also planning to launch the OTA updates (Over the air), which allow the telematics software to be updated wirelessly instead of going to a workshop, expanding with an investment of 400 crores in India.
The key software developer companies that provide connected car services between the automakers and the network providers are listed below:
