Toyota Accelerates Its Connected Car Technology Initiatives
January 04 2016 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Making Ever-better Cars through Vehicle Data
Management
- Greater vehicle connectivity through
expanded installation of Data Communication Module (DCM)
- Toyota Big Data Center to support
data-intensive connected services
- Improved quality and security of
vehicle-based communications while safeguarding privacy
- Safer and more secure connected
services through upcoming business collaboration with UIEvolution,
Inc.
Toyota announced its next-generation connected vehicle framework
at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada,
accelerating its initiatives to provide its customers with greater
convenience and increased data security. The framework builds on
advances in automobile, IT, and communications systems to enhance
Toyota vehicles with connected technologies.
Toyota’s connected vehicle framework is anchored by the
installation of a Data Communication Module (DCM) into a broader
range of its vehicles starting with model changes in 2017 in the
U.S. market. Availability will expand to additional regions and
countries following the U.S. Adding DCM will connect Toyota
vehicles to cellular telecommunications networks, expanding the
ability to transmit data for products and services.
For vehicles equipped with DCM, Toyota will also provide
emergency notification system as a standard feature, which is
activated by airbag deployment during a traffic accident and
supports prompt initial response in an emergency.
To build the IT infrastructure needed to support this
significant expansion of vehicle data processing, the company will
create a Toyota Big Data Center (TBDC) in the Toyota Smart Center.
TBDC will analyze and process data collected by DCM, and use it to
deploy services under high-level information security and privacy
controls.
Toyota will also develop a globally uniform DCM by 2019. DCMs
are currently different depending on the region and country, but
will become a standardized architecture. The company will also, in
the Toyota Smart Center, create a function to globally consolidate
its DCM communications.
At the same time, when using a customer’s smartphone with an
in-car device, it is very important to help promote safer driving
and the transmission of vehicle and customer information in a
secure manner. Toyota will jointly develop standard middleware with
UIEvolution, Inc. (UIE), one of the leading companies in this area,
for application to Toyota’s in-car devices globally.
With this business collaboration, UIE can develop a smartphone
app which uses vehicle data and provides it to third party service
and app providers authorized by Toyota with UIE’s service
environments. It enables a customer’s smartphone to access vehicle
data in a highly secure environment through TBDC and Toyota can
offer its customers safer and more secure smartphone-car connection
services.
Mirai Creation Investment Limited Partnership*1, a fund where
Toyota participates as an investor, invested five million U.S.
Dollars in UIE at the end of last year.
Shigeki Tomoyama, Senior Managing Officer of Toyota Motor
Corporation, said: “Carmakers can continue to offer additional
value by proactively using rapidly evolving IT technologies. In
particular, we want to provide our customers with a safe, secure
and convenient future mobility life.”
The connected vehicle framework reflects Toyota’s overall
commitment to globally deploying safe and highly secured connected
vehicles and IT platforms, leveraging the rise of “Internet of
Things” technologies to help realize a mobility society in which
customers are more able to enjoy driving.
*1: http://newsroom.toyota.co.jp/en/detail/10143339/
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