Now cars are inseparable from ICT (Information and Communication Technology).There are two factors in terms of ICT of cars.One is a constant connection of the car on the Internet (and digitizing the circuit and wiring according to it), and the other is an automated function represented by automatic driving and ADAS.
The constant connection of cars is a movement expressed by the word Connected in English, and the car is connected to the Internet via a mobile phone line such as LTE and 5G, and the cloud (on the Internet on the Internet).The server is connected, and some data is always uploaded or downloaded.
In a familiar and easy -to -understand example of readers, the cloud of map data is one of its evolution.The conventional map data is stored in the storage of car navigation system, and the data will not be updated unless it is updated from USB memory etc.There were many inconveniences.
On the other hand, Google Maps, which is common in smartphones, is a cloud -type map, map data is stored in the cloud, and its map data is updated daily.Since the terminal operates while downloading map data around the current location as needed, users can always search for routes using the latest map data and reach the destination in the shortest distance.The map of the car navigation system for car navigation systems has gradually began to shift from storing data in such local to the cloud, and smartphones such as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are connected to the center console display and used as a navigation.The form is this cloud type.In the future, various cloud -based services such as smartphones will be applied to cars, which will be more convenient.
And what is currently in the automotive industry is the response to the automation function.In addition to full -fledged autonomous driving such as level 3 and level 4, methods such as image recognition using AI are becoming common for level 2 and level 2+.In order to improve such AI, it is necessary to work called Training, and at the time of development, upload images to the server from vehicles that actually ran on the road, and use them to learn.
In the future, car manufacturers will need a huge amount of operating performance for such cloud -based connected services and learning for autonomous driving, and automakers have dedicated data centers (many servers (many servers) to do it.We have been built on ourselves on the collected operations.