Introduction to automotive IoT
Based on the aforementioned trends, we see new automotive use cases and solutions emerging that span across the entire ecosystem of connected vehicles to backend cloud solutions, user devices, and mobile apps. This section only aims to give a brief introduction to automotive IoT, which is described in more detail in Chapter 2, Introducing Automotive IoT Use Cases.
Automotive IoT
In this book, we will refer to these use cases as automotive IoT use cases. Before going further in this book, we will outline a definition of automotive IoT as it is a relatively new term and may have different interpretations depending on your background.
Automotive IoT definition
Automotive IoT is defined as use cases and solutions with specific purposes for the automotive industry that encompass vehicles and backend solutions and/or other relevant smart devices such as mobile devices.
An overview of the automotive IoT ecosystem is depicted in Figure 1.2.
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