Internet of Things Platform and Services for Connected Cars
Chungki Woo
1,2
, Jihyun Jung
2,3
, Jang Euitack
2
, Jongwoong Lee
2
, Jaewook Kwon
1
and Daeyoung Kim
2,4
1
Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Kyungki, Korea, Republic of
2
Graduate School of Software, KAIST, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
3
Mando, Pankyo, Kyungki, Korea, Republic of
4
Auto-ID Lab, KAIST, Daejeon, Chungbuk, Korea, Republic of
Keywords: Connected Car, IOT, GS1, EPCglobal, Oliot, EPCIS, ONS.
Abstract: In recent years, the connected car market has been expanding. Various car manufacturers are trying to
provide Internet of things (IoT) services by collecting and analysing sensing data from cars. However, there
is not a well-defined standardized IoT platform to handle the big data for the various car OEM companies or
service providers. To resolve this issue, we propose a globally standardized IoT platform for connected cars
based on Global Standard 1 (GS1). We extended and remodelled Electronic Product Code global
(EPCglobal), one of GS1 standards, and developed a new IoT platform framework called open-language for
IoT (Oliot). Then, based on the framework, we modelled car events and developed some hardware and
software modules to capture, store, and share the event data. We also implemented demonstration services
using the shared data for verification. This research can provide a new ecosystem to the connected car
industries and service providers to enable standardized handling and processing of big data. As a result, it
will be much easier to create and provide a greater variety of services and combinations of services.
1 INTRODUCTION
The global connected car market is constantly
expanding. One study has predicted (Allied Market
Research, 2014) that the market will grow to $141
billion by the year 2020.
A ‘connected car’ usually means a car that
supports connection and communication between the
car and the outside world (Internet, mobile devices,
other cars, drivers and other things) using wireless
network technologies.
With growth of the market, the number of related
IoT services is also increasing. Such as BMW and
Volkswagen, are trying to collect and analyse the
sensing data from cars and provide various services.
BMW provides a car-as-a-sensor (CARASSO)
service and dynamically updated map information to
drivers. (Investor's Business Daily, 2015)
Volkswagen informs drivers of real-time traffic
conditions and car status through Car-Net.
(Engadget, 2015) HP has also experimented with
such a service by sensing driver behaviour, road
quality, and social media in the World Record Race.
Through these efforts, manufacturers are
introducing new value into the car market.
In this situation, a problem is that a number of
service providers and car OEM companies are
building and using their own private data silos. In
other words, they are using heterogeneous platforms
and different protocols for collecting, processing,
storing, and sharing car data. Having such different
ways to handle data is a major obstacle to data
sharing and to making good services using the big
data from connected cars and various things from
other domains.
To address this issue, we developed new
common IoT platform for Connected Car based on
Global Standards 1 (GS1) (Global Standards 1).
For a long time, GS1 was a global common
business language that has been used for distribution
business. The GS1 provides a few standards having
three following abilities. Identify, Capture and
Share. These three abilities enable industries to
uniquely identify object and capture and share the
event in life-cycle of object. We applied this concept
into new IoT platform for connected car. In the
conclusion, we can expect that generated event data
in the life cycles of cars can be standardized,
collected, and shared easily.