doi: 10.18178/ijfcc.2016.5.6.475
A Real-World Implementation of IoT Automobiles
Hrvoje Milković
1,2
,
Nikola Ivković
1,2
,
Mario Konecki
3
- 1 Kraken Systems, Ulica hrvatskih branitelja 3, 10090 Zagreb, Croatia.
- 2 Department of Computing and Technology on the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, 42000 Varaždin, Croatia.
- 3 Department of Theoretical and Applied Foundations of Information Sciences on the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, 42000 Varaždin, Croatia.
Abstract
Modern automobiles have many built-in sensorsand electronic control units responsible for increasing safety,optimizing performance and improving occupant comfort.Along with this well-established uses of computing devices insideautomobiles, there are two main research directions in furthercomputerization of automobiles. One direction is aimed atcreating vehicles that communicate with road infrastructure andother vehicles in ad hoc manner forming vehicular ad hocnetwork (VANET). The other research direction is expected toproduce self-driving automobiles that can drive safely on thesafe road together with regular automobiles. The researchpresented in this paper is focused on making regularautomobiles connected to the Internet and thus becoming a partof the Internet of Things (IoT), with some motivatingapplications under consideration. In this paper a developedgeneral architecture that enables automobiles to communicatewith user applications by the help of an axillary computationalinfrastructure is presented and elaborated. A prototype basedon the proposed architecture has been developed by puttingembedded system inside an automobile. The developed system issupported by a suitable software and infrastructure that havealso been developed as a part of the research. Driving tests withthe prototype on real roads confirmed that proposed approach isfeasible.
Keywords
- Automobile
- embedded system
- Internet ofThings
- distributed system
How to Cite
Hrvoje Milković, Nikola Ivković, and Mario Konecki, "A Real-World Implementation of IoT Automobiles," International Journal of Future Computer and Communication, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 222-228, 2016. https://doi.org/ 10.18178/ijfcc.2016.5.6.475
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