Smart Cars
Smart Cars, Connected Cars, Automotive, Traffic, eBikes, Smart Transport, Smart Parking;
Mobility - Aerospace & Airports, Marine, Rail & Stations, Automotive, Traffic.
- Within cars
- safety, brakes, engine, tires, radio-audio-video-infotainment, tionment,
- Between cars
- safety, distance, collision detection and prevention
- Services-providers - with manufacturer, dealers, remote diagnostic technologies, telemetry
- At home
- Communications with Smart Home - transfer of radion listened to, turn on/off lights, HVAC
- Parking - find space, payments
- Other transportations
- arrive on time to airports, harbors, trains, ... consider traffice in between, delays/changes in schedule of next means of transportation
Formula 1
In some regards, one can compare Formula 1 with space research and other forms of advanced cutting-edge technology area, technologies are - yes - cutting edge and costly but parts are eventually trickling down to more regular use.
As example, consider
Global Positioning System (GPS) which for a long time both required quite expensive equipment and included limitations for non-military use. Today, every smart phone and many smart watches/fitness monitors include GPS at low added cost. And with remarkable precision.
Some kind-of fascinating facts around Formula 1
(src):
- Two types of sensors and actuators – the ones used
- to directly control the car, and
- to monitor operations for setup and optimization.
- As indication of magnitudes: area of 500 different sensors, more than 1000 points of data per second
- Data logged in real time
- Data transfered back to home base, data center, (many in the UK) in about 300ms, thousands of miles away
- Hundreds of GB of data stored during a race weekend
- Obviously wireless communication from car to pit but consider that - requires pretty good technologies!
- Data center in pit (locally) only a small portion, 1:100 proportions - 1 local person, 100+ in data center
- The network is critical.
- 1 of 6 in data center focuses not on data per se but the transmission thereof, network guys and gals.
- The margins are ultra-thin and problems in network or data analyses looses races.