ICT in road vehicles — The VehicleICT platform

Vehicles are not just a means of transportation anymore, but they are also moving entities that collect and transmit a great amount of local data, captured by sensors from the internals of the vehicle and from its environment as well. The consumers of this information include the passengers, especially the driver, and the environment, i.e. other vehicles, intelligent gates, centralized storage systems and data processing solutions. In order to maximize the value provided to the passengers, other vehicles and also the urban society, vehicle services utilize the local nature of the data. This paper discusses the VehicleICT platform, which is a proof of concept implementation, developed by a research institute and an automotive industrial partner.