Expedited emerge of Connected Car data ecosystems in Europe

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RoadCloud Oy is a company developing innovative systems for road safety and connected cars. RoadCloud Oy has developed and patented an inexpensive road surface condition probe that, when fused together with vehicle dynamics measurements and GNSS data, provides continuous data on tyre-road friction. We retrofit our sensor and data collection system into vehicles with high daily mileage and operating hours up to 20 hours per day, such as taxis. This real-time road friction and vehicle data is sent to a cloud database and refined into information products for customers. Our key product is accurate and local real-time road weather information that is increasingly important when autonomous functions are becoming more popular, but already a very effective tool for road maintenance. This project will explore potential of expediting creation of Connected Car (CC) data ecosystems. Connected Car data ecosystem will improve traffic safety, reduce traffic jams, improve efficiency and reduce pollution from our traffic system. Effect on traffic safety is very clear: e.g. a vehicle in emergency braking can share its situation for road users approaching that particular road section. It will also expedite introduction of MAAS (Mobility as a service) by providing value from the fleet. Currently data from road vehicles is available only for the automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), but data is owned by vehicle owner (car data is under e-privacy) that has no direct access to the data. If we wait that all this technology and data is available from new and luxury cars, it will take several decades before we actually see these benefits. By introducing RoadCloud’s retrofitted data gateways with permission of vehicle owners, we can significantly speed up the progress and draw OEMs along to spread the Connected Car technology faster.