Furukawa Electric has joined the Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC), a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting best practices in vehicle, mobility, and computing convergence.
The AECC comprises cross-industry players. Its aim is to assess the work done by mobile network operators, automotive manufacturers, communication providers, cloud firms, and other relevant technology standards groups and communities. The consortium explores the rapidly evolving and significant data and communications needs involved in instrumenting billions of vehicles worldwide.
According to a statement by the AECC, the collaboration will assure that emerging technologies and standards meet the future requirements of connected automobiles. As an AECC member, Furukawa Electric will engage with other members to contribute to the evaluation process.
The company’s experience in communications solutions and automotive systems will assist in developing high-performance, dependable communications and resilient networks for the automobile industry. Furukawa Electric’s participation aligns with its group mission of ‘Composing the Core of a Brighter World’ and its 2030 vision, which focuses on constructing a sustainable world and developing solutions for the next generation of global infrastructure that combines information, energy, and mobility.
For context, the corporation has a substantial presence in both the information and communications sectors and automobile components activities. In the former, it offers a diverse range of products – including optical fibre, cable, and optical devices – as well as routers and networking solutions.
The latter helps produce safe, secure, and comfortable autos using wire harnesses and functional items. The AECC’s primary focus is to accelerate the development of connected vehicle best practices, proofs of concept, and new use cases. It accomplishes this by communicating pertinent results, requirements, and technological solutions with industry standards bodies.
The consortium aims to usher in a new era of connected vehicles that use high-volume data to improve safety, sustainability, reliability, and overall driving experience. Edge computing plays a critical role in the future of the automotive industry, especially for connected and driverless vehicles.
As vehicles get more intelligent and generate massive volumes of data, the demand for efficient, low-latency processing grows. Edge computing meets this demand by placing computation and data storage closer to the data sources, lowering latency and bandwidth consumption.
Edge computing helps autonomous driving systems make real-time decisions, improve vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) interactions, and support advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). It can also speed up over-the-air (OTA) upgrades and increase the performance of in-vehicle infotainment systems.
Furukawa Electric and the AECC’s collaboration is expected to contribute to breakthroughs in these areas. Furukawa’s communications and automotive systems experience, combined with the AECC’s focus on edge computing in the automotive sector, has the potential to lead to novel solutions to the issues that connected and autonomous vehicles confront.
This collaboration also demonstrates the growing necessity of cross-industry cooperation in addressing the complex difficulties of the automobile industry’s digital transition. As vehicles grow more connected and autonomous, they will require knowledge in various sectors, including telecommunications, data processing, artificial intelligence, and traditional automotive engineering.
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