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ArticleAnalysis: Data opportunities abound in complex new-mobility environment
Participants at a conference about monetizing car data hosted here by the German business daily Handelsblatt said the world of 21st century personal mobility is characterized by growing complexity, new players, new business models and rapidly changing consumer requirements.
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ArticleFord’s big data study identifies potential traffic accident hotspots, gives insights for electromobility and city authorities
Image: Ford Taking part in the research were 160 Ford Transit light commercial vehicles, driven and operated in different sectors and by different businesses, from owner-operators to large fleets, plus a fleet of private Fiesta superminis. Over the course of the year – and over 15,000 days of ...
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Feature“CIOs are starting to grasp the potential of vehicle data”
Mike Branch, vice president data & analytics at Geotab, talked to automotiveIT International at the company’s recent “Mobility Connect” customer event in Barcelona
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ArticleWithout data, there is no AI in the auto industry
(Image: MapR) The auto industry is currently undergoing a massive technology upheaval. Artificial intelligence (AI) provides an opportunity for automotive players to rethink everything. Some believe that AI is the key differentiator in the auto industry. But this is inaccurate. It’s not the AI, it’s the data that ...
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ArticleBMW launches car data unit
BMW CarData offers a portal for a range of new connected services (Photo: BMW)BMW has launched a new service designed to better manage the functions ”“ and business opportunities ”“ that are becoming available through car data.The service, which is called BMW CarData, allows customers to decide what data ...
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ArticleDelphi invests in 2 Israeli tech companies
Delphi is investing heavily in autonomous-driving technology (Photo: Delphi)Delphi is taking minority interests in two Israeli companies, as it moves to strengthen its connected-car related products and services.The US-based automotive supplier said it had signed a commercial partnership agreement with otonomo, a specialist in monetizing automotive data by way ...
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ArticleAt Intel, a greater focus on autonomous driving
Krzanich, speaking at the LA auto show, said "data is the new currency of the automotive world" (Photo: Intel)Intel will spend an additional 250 million dlrs on automotive technology, as the US company targets a potential high-growth market for its core semiconductor business.In a keynote address at the opening ...
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ArticleToyota forms data science company
North America CEO Zack Hicks will head Toyota Connected (Photo: Toyota)Toyota has established a separate US-based company to handle global data management and data services development. The new unit, called Toyota Connected, will be the central data science resource for a wide range of new-mobility initiatives.Toyota Connected’s primary mission ...
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ArticleReport shows connected car data, privacy vulnerabilities
US Senator Markey is critical of connected-car data security and privacy (Picture: Continental)A US report published this week shows how connected cars may be vulnerable to hackers.The paper, based on answers to questions by 16 major car manufacturers, highlights growing concerns that networking cars with the world around them ...
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ArticleConnectivity market set to soar, but data security is big worry
Daimler is one carmaker that uses advanced connectivity functions to test autonomous driving (Photo: Daimler)The market for networked mobility products and services is set to almost quadruple between 2015 and 2020, but data security issues will become a big problem once more cars are connected, according to a new ...
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automotiveIT International Congress, London
Connected mobility will be the focus of the automotiveIT International Congress, which will be held in London July 1-2, 2014. It will be the first international event staged by the automotiveIT Group, which publishes German and English-language print and online publications, including the automotiveIT.com Web site.The automotiveIT International Congress has ...
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ArticlePoint of view: Whose data?
Hilmar Dunker is editor-in-chief of automotiveIT and carIT magazineAs connected cars start generating more and more data, one important and central question is: Who owns these data? It's a legitimate question and. so far, no one has come up with a truly satisfactory answer.Experts warn that, from a legal ...
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ArticleautomotiveDAY: BMW execs say selectivity is key in infotainment
BMW’s Hildegard Wortmann (left) and Karl Probst describe the opportunities and challenges of connected cars (Photo: automotiveIT)HANOVER ”“ BMW executives see huge possibilities to add a wealth of new in-car infotainment functions, but they agreed that selectivity is key.“The possibilities are endless but we need to focus on what makes ...
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German companies see strong rise in data volumes
German companies expect a strong increase in data volumes, according to a survey conducted by Steria Mummert Consulting.Of all German companies polled 44 percent say that ever more detailed capture of customer data and more indepth analysis is going to require more storage capacity to deal with the growing flood ...
