Microsoft: How smart cities or smart cities can get started with cars? Forget what you knew about stand-alone cars for a moment. In the future, this will be just a small piece of the puzzle. Real money is on the data coming from cars. Imagine millions of connected vehicles feeding rich data to a central server. These data can be used to improve traffic flow to save you time by avoiding traffic, avoiding accidents, saving fuel, finding better navigation routes, and more.
Στην επόμενη δεκαετία (ή εικοσαετία) υπάρχει η πιθανότητα οι περισσότεροι από εμάς θα διαθέτουν ένα αυτόνομο αυτοκίνητο ή ακόμα και ένα old που έχει προστεθεί νέα τεχνολογία.
What will happen is that cars will have to connect to each other, to the road, to the infrastructure, and even beyond that, to thenetwork των πραγμάτων, το γραφείο και το σπίτι σας. Αυτό είναι το μέλλον που οραματίζεται η Microsoft, ένα μέλλον που θα λειτουργεί στο σύννεφο. Ακόμη και τα παλαιότερα αυτοκίνητα θα μπορούσαν να συνδεθούν στο cloud, και όχι μόνο εκείνα που έχουν χαρακτηριστικά αυτο-οδήγησης. Και αυτό θα μπορούσε να συμβεί νωρίτερα από ό, τι νομίζετε.
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 director 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 from the car, or traffic reports, or to avoid a collision.
He gave a really good example.
Let's say you're sitting at home wondering when you should leave for work. The digital assistant Cortana from your laptop will tell you that it is better to leave for your meeting in the city. The digital assistant will know because it will know if there is a delay due to traffic. You can decide to be a little late, and when you get into your vehicle, Cortana will let you know that it's late, while offering to do a video conference from your car. Because wireless congestion is a problem in your city, Cortana chooses a route that optimizes the quality of calls.
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 computers can go ahead and "see" much further than the driver can see from the data fed to him by the cloud. Is there ice on a part of the road? any abandoned car? unexpected weather conditions?
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.
