SEATTLE: Amazon's Web Services division has announced the upcoming availability of a brand new service for car manufacturers, allowing them to easily transfer and store all data from their vehicles to the cloud.
This could notably allow them to perform remote diagnostics of their vehicles, in order to ensure the safety of motorists by offering assistance or patches.
AWS IoT FleetWise is billed as a service that allows automakers to collect and transfer all of their vehicle sensor and range data to the cloud.
Automakers can use this data for tasks such as remote diagnostics to prevent potential problems or recalls on certain types of vehicles. It will also be an opportunity to collect data for simulation work, in the aim of improving driver assistance and autonomous driving systems.
The service will also offer an intelligent filtering mode to limit the amount of unnecessary data transferred to the cloud, the idea being to use only the specific data that manufacturers really need.
It is up to automakers to define "rules" to filter the data they want to collect and analyse, such as technical data relating to sudden braking incidents in a specific model.
The aim is to be able to anticipate potential problems, either with all or part of a fleet.
To operate, the AWS IoT FleetWise application must evidently be installed on the vehicle gateway, which will decode and transmit all necessary information to the cloud.
The new service is currently only available in a preview version in Virginia, USA, and in the Frankfurt area, Germany. The first production vehicles equipped with this technology could be released by 2024.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most widely adopted cloud platform in the world today.
The news comes at a time when all the world's carmakers are exploring ways of using their connected data.
Porsche has recently decided to bring the concept of the "digital twin" to the automotive world.
Here, it applies only to the chassis of its Taycan model, monitoring the state of the components remotely through a virtual copy of the chassis with real-time diagnostics based on data captured remotely by the manufacturer.
