Microsoft: How smart cities can start from cars? Forget everything you knew about self-driving cars for a moment. In the future, this will only be a small piece of the puzzle. The real money is in data which will come from cars. Imagine millions of connected vehicles feeding rich data to a central server. This data can be used to improve traffic flow, save you time by avoiding traffic, avoid accidents, save fuel, find better navigation routes, and more.
In the next decade (or twenty years) there's a chance most of us will own one autonomous αυτοκίνητο ή ακόμα και ένα παλιό που έχει προστεθεί νέα technology.
What will happen is that cars will need to connect to each other, to the road, to the infrastructure, and even beyond that, to the Internet of Things, the office and the home your. This is the future that Microsoft envisions, a future that will run in the cloud. Even older cars could be connected to the cloud, and not just those with self-driving features.driving. And that could happen sooner than you think.
A major step forward Microsoft has announced Microsoft Connected, an in-vehicle platform that will provide tools and algorithms for automakers to develop new technologies, analyze data, and help drivers.
Doug Seven, program manager for Microsoft Azure, IoT and Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform, told VB that the platform is like having a set of Lego blocks. The platform can help in electronic payments by car, or traffic reports, or to avoid a collision.
He gave a really good example.
Let's say you are sitting at home and wondering when you should leave for work. The Cortana digital assistant from your laptop will tell you that it is best to leave for your meeting in the city. The digital assistant will know why he will know if there is a delay due to traffic. You can decide to delay a little bit, and when you get into your car, Cortana will let you know that it's too late, while offering you a teleconference from your car. Because wireless congestion is a problem in your city, Cortana chooses a route that optimizes call quality.
Finish fuel, and Cortana automatically selects a service station that is along the route and you've used it before. You will just drive and the bot will think.
This is different from autonomous driving. It is driven by the data.
Microsoft's Seven gave another example of how this technology could help with security. As you drive, your car can connect to the cloud and look for problems on the road. Since many cars are linked to the cloud, you will know that a ladder fell from a truck located a few miles ahead, from reports that have sent other cars. So you can take a different route, avoiding any driving problems.
One of the benefits is that a computer can go and "see" much farther than the driver can see from the data powered by the cloud. Is there ice on a part of the road? an abandoned car? unexpected weather?
This will lead to smarter cities where - according to Seven - all data will be fed into a traffic management system, which will make its information available to drivers. The rich data will help city planners balance load, develop new highways that are self-regulating, or adjust lights in real time. According to Seven, this could be the first step for a smart city that knows about every car on the road, available routes, all traffic incidents, and even top speeds.
After that, smart cities according to Microsoft's vision could make parking lots and more. Workers could arrive at about the same time at work, which will already be with the heating or air conditioning work.
