IoT Technologies for Connected and Automated Driving Applications

Abstract

The applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies connect mul-tiple devices directly and through the Internet. Autonomous vehicles utiliseconnectivity when updating their algorithms based on user data, interact withthe infrastructure to get environmental information, communicate with othervehicles. They exchange information with pedestrians using mobile devicesand wearables and provide information about the traffic attributes and datacollected by the vehicle sensors. The connected and automated vehicles(CAV) require a significant quantity of collecting and processing data andthrough IoT applications and services the autonomous vehicles share information about the road, the present path, traffic, and how to navigate arounddifferent obstacles. This information can be shared between IoT connectedvehicles and uploaded wirelessly to the cloud or/and edge system to be anal-ysed and operated improving the levels of automation and the autonomousdriving (AD) functions of each vehicle. This chapter gives an overview ofthe integration of IoT devices contributing to automated/autonomous driving, and the IoT infrastructure deployed and seamlessly integrated into theAUTOPILOT project use cases and pilot demonstrators, including the IoTplatforms integration.