Automotive technology supplier Robert Bosch is developing technologies to make cars an acitve part of the internet, in order to improve the comfort, safety, and efficiency.
In this project, the company is pursuing three strategic objectives including making the internet an intuitive in-car experience; connecting cars to the internet and creating driver assistance functions; and networking cars with traffic infrastructure.
To make the internet a part of the car, Bosch is working on MySpin system to integrate iPhones and Android smartphones fully into the vehicle. It enables the phone's display on the vehicle's main display.
The company is also planning to connect the powertrain to the internet through its eHorizon system. The system combines decades of systems competence in powertrains with software programming.
For the objective of making the car part of the internet, Bosch subsidiary escrypt is developing security solutions for cars, such as standalone encryption.
In the future, vehicles will become sensors gathering information about their surroundings and exchanging them with each other or with a server. It will create highly dynamic maps and will improve vehicle safety.
To make the car part of the internet of things, Bosch is developing platforms with service brokering to enable public transportation companies, electric car hire companies, and e-bike rental companies to work together to offer an integrated mobility service.
Robert Bosch automotive group board of management member Wolf-Henning Scheider said that a connected car is always going to be a better car.
"Automotive connectivity marks the start of a new era - until now, cars were isolated from their surroundings, but in the future the two will interact," Scheider added.
Image: Robert Bosch is developing technologies for networking cars with the internet. Photo: Courtesy of Robert Bosch GmbH.
