IoTTo: Open connected vehicle data platform (EN)

We are developing an open platform that unlocks vehicle data in real time through IoT. This platform breaks through closed data structures and supports innovation in the automotive sector and smart city solutions by making vehicle data widely accessible and usable.

In brief:

  • Vehicle data is accessed via hardware, software and an automatic decryption algorithm.
  • Closed platforms of OEMs pose a challenge to interoperability.
  • Manual reverse engineering of data hinders efficiency and innovation.
  • The platform promotes the development of smart applications and real-time data usage.

Contact

kris.martens@kdg.be
+32 474917905

  • Duration of study: 1 October 2019 - 30 September 2021
  •  Research centre Sustainable Industries
  • Project partners:
    • Mobly
    • Digipolis
    • Telenet
    • Faktion
    • IS practice
    • LinkedCar
    • City of Antwerp
    • University of Antwerp

In the IoTTo project, the research centre Sustainable Industries and the research group of the Multimedia and Communication Technology (MCT) course together with our partners LinkedCar, Telenet, Software AG and ERA developed proof of concepts for both hardware, software and an automatic decryption algorithm that together can make real-time decrypted vehicle data available via IoT in an open online platform.

Innovation in the automotive sector is gaining momentum. Within a few years, with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), most cars will be connected. That is, they can autonomously communicate with external smart city platforms. However, a key challenge is overcoming so-called vertical silos. These occur when OEMs and developers of both hardware and software use only their own closed platforms and data structures.

A similar challenge around unlocking data, can also be found in the automotive world itself. Contemporary vehicles are equipped with dozens of sensors, communicating via technologies such as CAN, OBD, telematics, smartphone apps from the OEMs themselves. While these are standardised in themselves, their interpretation is not. Car manufacturers do not share decryption. Today, therefore, the necessary decryption to usable signals is only possible via manual reverse engineering.

The fact that data is so difficult to access and sometimes even shielded, both within IoT and automotive, hinders innovation. It hampers the development of smart (city) solutions and applications based on (real-time) vehicle data.

Want to know more, collaborate or have a press question?

You can collaborate with our research centre Sustainable Industries on topics such as:

  • Greening chemical processes and reusing waste streams.
  • AI-based tools developed in-house, to optimise your processes and products.
  • Developing alternative propulsion systems, alternative fuel systems, and emission measurements of internal combustion engines.
  • Vehicle data analyses using simulations and reverse engineering on CAN bus systems.

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