9. The mobile Cloud is Key to All Cars…
Newspapers - 480 m daily
PCs - 1.1 b
Phones - 1.2 b land-line
Internet users - 1.4 b
Transforms car value equation:
80% of innovation in car today from ICT
Vehicle 3rd-fastest-growing connected device
(smartphones, tablets)
10. Take-Aways:
Car Design
• Smaller central console, data on remote server
• Increases the car’s capabilities
– Better drive dynamics, suspension Cloud-adjusted
• Safety
– GPS-enabled augmented reality; lane-changing
Ford Evos Hybrid
Concept Car
11. Driving Experience
• Distance optimization between cars
• External sensor info via Cloud
– Climate sensing triggers car (defrost windows)
• Travel: where you are, what’s ahead
• Personalized data travels with you
– Calendars, music
• Health: heart rate monitor
• Voice-delivered Twitter, Facebook updates (BMW)
• Cloud as restrictive tool
– Shuts down texting, or calling over a certain speed
• Driverless Cars – now legal in Nevada
12. Infrastructure
• E-vehicles talk to power smart-grids
– Determines best times for charging
• Geo-location (find what you’re looking for as you
drive) saves time, fuel
• Route optimization:
– Traffic and weather download and interaction
– App lets travelling buddies stay close together
IBM and Swiss Utility
use smartphone app for
remote charging
13. Basics
• User interface vital - intuitive
– MyFord touchscreen interface hurt quality index
• Right content, right time (esp. 1st Responders)
• Does app exceed customer needs?
– Car’s calendar linked appointments to alarm clock
• Safety, not flash, is the prime concern
– 91 % would love to see a lane-change, blind-spot warning
system in their cars.
– 83 % want in-vehicle technologies that would automatically call
a tow truck
– Three-quarters would like technology that would stop their car if
the driver suffers a heart attack or other sudden illness
14. Some activity
• Toyota and Microsoft
– Global Cloud-based telematics system
• Intel’s new $100-m Cloud car fund
• GM Onstar has 6m users
• Ford SNYC crowd-sourced Cloud contest: Caravan Track
• QNX voice control over infotainment
QNX concept car:
Porsche Carrera
15. Evolution
• Surround the car occupant with the
social network and global knowledge
– Car interior as a friend delivering
employee networks, all contacts, all
news, entertainment, health, travel, and
environmental control
16. • New technology is rapidly being deployed that transforms the
communications opportunities for First Responders.
• Vehicles = mobile intelligent sensors and autonomous networking nodes
• A Test Environment tol allow FRs to find optimal solutions and showcase
uses.
NVA: Cloud and First Responders
17. LTE: Compelling for Responders
Narrow-band will remain platform of choice for mission-critical
needs for some years to come… THEN LTE
Why?
• Supported by all service providers, makers
• Vendors and device ecosystem support
• Simple antenna, multiple services
• Strong security
• Endorsed by major Public Safety associations
• Continuously evolving technology
Issues:
• Spectrum ownership
• Rural coverage
Technology Momentum Application to First Responders Proposed Test-Bed
19. Test Environment Projects
Testing, demonstrations and continuous
collaboration
Alcatel-Lucent
• Kenneth C. Budka, CTO, Strategic Industries
at Alcatel-Lucent (presentation)
• Fred Scalera, Public Safety Director for
Strategic Industries at Alcatel-Lucent
(demos)
Technology Momentum Application to First Responders Proposed Test-Bed
20. Alcatel-Lucent
• Several applications of mobile broadband
including Genetec (Live Video), facial
recognition, mass casualty monitoring,
LiveViewGPS for real-time vehicle tracking,
multimedia collaboration across LTE, a
network connected media command table,
ruggedized band 14 smart phone for push
to talk and telestration.
21. • San Seviera Marshall, Harris Corporation
• . Specific high bandwidth PS applications that can be
used over LTE (video streaming, situational awareness
and voice/video communications), recognizing that
available LTE enabled devices will drive application
usage; and
• 3. Harris intelligent LTE enabled devices: a vehicular
modem – MBC-100, a ruggedized smart phone – the
InTouch and a Public Safety grade tablet – the BTC-
100.
Will save $200 – $300-billion annually in US alone
It is capturing every single thing that it sees moving -- cars, trucks, birds, rolling balls, dropped cigarette butts, and fusing all that together to make its decisions while driving. If it sees a cigarette butt, it knows a person might be creeping out from between cars. If it sees a rolling ball it knows a child might run out from a driveway.
Newspapers - 480 m daily
Personal computers - 1.1 b
Phones - 1.2 b land-line
Internet users - 1.4 b
The drive to communicate is such a strong urge, that we could call it a “compulsion”. Look at the numbers, about the rise of ‘portable communications’. People want to stay plugged in!
Mobile subscribes bigger than newspapers, PCs, phones, and Internet users – combined!!
lane departure warning system now common on some new luxury cars or other upscale vehicles. This system typically relies on satellite signals to help keep a car traveling in a safe path.
91 percent of respondents said they would love to see a lane-change, blind-spot warning system in their cars. And, 83 percent said they would like in-vehicle technologies that would automatically call a tow truck when the car breaks down. Nearly three-quarters said theyd’ like technology that would stop their car if the driver suffers a heart attack or other sudden illness. That’s about as far from Angry Birds as you can get.
group of vehicles during the same visit can connect each other along their journey. With the help of recognition on the main website, users can come to see their fellow travelers. They can also observe vehicle telemetry which includes track each vehicle, map routes, fuel level and speed, intimation about the alerts along the way and can also provide about conditions of the road and other perils which they may experience along their way.
Narrowband systems will remain the platform of choice for mission-critical voice needs for a few more years. BUT:
LTE will support a wide range of existing and emerging high-bandwidth applications such as streaming video, advanced situational awareness, and PTT voice-over-broadband features
As National Guard, fire, police and other military and civil first responders begin to stabilize a region in the wake of a natural or manmade disaster, they face challenges in coordinating their efforts using standard UHF or VHF radio communications. Reacting to these challenges during the 2007 wildfires in southern California, enterprising first responder groups successfully used their personal cell phones to improve communications interoperability. What if we could expand on this germ of an idea, leveraging the power of 3G wireless devices to include not just voice, but imagery, location, and other data? The resulting system could provide responder teams and commanders with critical multimedia, street level imagery, or even biometrics for identification or medical status, significantly improving situation awareness and a common operational picture with maps and coordinates of personnel, victims, and threats.
The capabilities of 3G systems, and the portent that 4G network bandwidth will rival cable and DSL performance, strongly suggests that smart cellular phones — which continue to get smarter by the day — are potential disruptive alternatives to legacy UHF and VHF radios.
In the course of disaster relief, a first responder’s personal performance, safety, and team coordination greatly improves with knowledge of his or her surroundings. Likewise when field commanders have a comprehensive view and location of personnel, victims, equipment, resources, and physical damage, and when they can see the evolution of events, or potential threats in a Common Operational Picture (COP), they can respond more capably and in less time.
Today, Google Maps and Google Earth are used as a framework for very complex military command control and intelligence systems. The integration of such applications with a relational data base and data mining applications can provide an extremely rich operational picture for military, government, or commercial use.
The application of 3G cellular technology to support homeland defense, disaster relief, or military operations is transformational, with the clear potential to displace the use of tactical radio systems. At the handset level there is a clear confluence of high bandwidth wireless technology, computing, software applications, and multimedia. This confluence is revolutionizing a broad component of how we conduct our lives in so many areas, such as personal communications, entertainment, shared experiences, shopping, business management, and education.
Note: the Public Safety Research Group in Boulder, CO, is planning a broadband demo project to accelerate the ecosystem for LTE and broadband technologies and provide vendor-neutral evaluation environments.