Invited Speaker
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Galileo based Mobility Services
Rainer Uhle |
Scenario:
It is the year 2015.
A new industry called Mobility Services Industry offers internet
based services for fleet management based on state of the art Car-to-X
Communication Standards, Telematic and Business Application Platforms for
floating car data, the newly available European Galileo GNSS standards
and many Business Applications on top of this architecture. I am heading one of
the 30 Mio. private households in Germany with statistically 1.5 cars. My
household has only one car and I am the manager for this tiny car fleet. To
optimize the costs for my car fleet I use the 'FleetMan as a Service'
offering of the ADAC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil Club), the largest
German automotive club.
The service bundles a chipset that is
able to receive the Galileo GNSS signal, the chipset is part of a
receiver-recorder that can store the Galileo information, the recorder is a black box in my car similar to flight recorders in planes.
The Galileo black box of my car is certified so that the data cannot be
manipulated by me or anyone else. The black box is sending the Galileo
information to my individual Galileo
Box hosted by my Internet Provider. I am the owner of that private Galileo
data and I allow my Internet Provider to derive key figures out of that Galileo
data pool using appropriate, again certified Galileo Applications (Analytical
Transformation Services).
Such a key figure set could look like this:
Rainer Uhle drove 6.000 km on European roads during the last 3 months with a
maximum speed of 130 km/h.
Such a service represents a huge semantic: It reflects my way of mobility
behaviour, it prooves my environmental engagement (most people use to
drive much faster in germany, blowing out much more CO2 than I do), it shows my
style and personality.
In former days my friends laughed at me for my environmental engagement that
very often brought me disadvantages. But nowadays the advantage is on my side,
because I can sell this information to parties like my car insurance or the
German government (Bundesverkehrsministerium).
My car insurance agent puts this personal key into his Risk Management
Modules and will find my crash risk on motorways reduced by 40%. He will offer
me a 10% reduction of my car insurance fee and he will take the rest of the
money to increase his margin.
If the insurance contract is related to the car everything works already. If a
authentication of the Galileo signal to a person is needed my car would need a
fingerprint scanner in the steering wheel and an iris scanner in the rear-view
mirror etc. All this is available on the market for me if I need it.
And my car insurance agent will ask me another important question: 'Which GNSS
standard is your car black box working on, we only accept the Galileo standard.'
Of course my friend, of course!!
Galileo is our standard whit the acknowledged legislation behind that is widely
accepted over all Industries and Businesses.
Galileo is like French Cognac, Italian Grappa, German Riesling, Spanish Port,
Scottish Whiskey, Netherlands Genever, Belgium Beer, Scandic Aquavit etc. where
by GPS is more like Coca Cola.
...we don't mix it, never ever!
Galileo is outstanding, the key differentiator is the legislation and the
compliance that comes with the signal and all serivce layers built on top of it.
My Internet Provider is offering a steadily growing key figure
catalogue for me, that helps me to dive into a wide range on Business Scenarios.
I do not pay taxes for my car and the fuel any more. I only pay a road toll
based on the kilometers I drive and which road categories I use at which time. I
choosed for this option because this pricing model brings additional benefits
for me compared to the classical one based on taxes per engine volume and fuel
consumption.
It is a kind of a Galileo based Pay Back System. I am getting pay back
points whenever I drive my car at the right time, at the right point, in the
right way, or I use the subway instead.
I can make my own money based on my own data, but only if I am willing to. My
private data is hosted from an Internet Provider in a trustworthy way. I am
acting autonomously, I am not an object or a victim in an Orwell scenario. I am
a consumer which means that I pay for benefits to increase my live quality.
Technical Background:
Thanks to the engagement of the European
Commission making policy and funding research activities Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS) are gaining momentum and provide mature concepts
for vehicular communications enabling vehicles to communicate amongst themselves
(Vehicle-to-Vehicle, V2V) and their immediate vicinity
(Vehicle-to-Infrastructure, V2I). Based on the proliferation of powerful
Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) technologies such as UMTS, WiMAX, or LTE, the
aforementioned communication concepts are complemented by the integration of
vehicles with business applications (Vehicle-to-Business, V2B).
While applications that require the integration of vehicles and business systems
are emerging, there is still a lack of well-defined and standardized integration
platforms that allow for a reliable and scalable interconnection between
vehicles and business systems. A major challenge that needs to be tackled by
such an integration platform concerns the intermittent connectivity of vehicles
caused by their high mobility and the incomplete network coverage of existing
BWA technologies. While the platform needs to deal with the technical
connectivity, it also needs to offer dedicated functionality for priority-based
queuing and scheduling of message transmission (Quality of Service).
Another research area that is complementary to the technical integration between
motor vehicles and business applications concerns the processing and enrichment
of the raw technical data transmitted by vehicles. A provider that mediates
between vehicles and business applications needs to receive the raw technical
data, process it and enrich it with business logic in order to provide the
business data to interested business applications.
The mediation process for floating car data typically has to be run in an
operational, process-oriented mode, which reduces the accepted latency time
frames to a maximum of several minutes, whereby latency has to be seen in two
ways:
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On the one hand, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) position
information such as GPS, EGNOS, or in the near future Galileo) tracked from the
in-vehicle GNSS receiver can be used easily and very fast to visualize the
position of the particular vehicle on a geographical map in the in vehicles' car
navigation system. If the position of the vehicle has also to be surveyed in a
computer center management system of a backend application system, the accepted
latency time would be 60-100 seconds.
- If - on the other hand, but still in the same example - the application now detects an error within a transportation process for dangerous goods, where e.g. a road type has been chosen by the driver that does not satisfy the security service level agreements for the related transport contract, the application wants to inform the truck driver by firing an event within a few seconds again in order to correct the transport process.
Exactly this way of near-real-time, bidirectional communication between moving assets
and backend business applications leads to the term Process-Centric Business
Intelligence (PCBI). PCBI has to turn technical data into transactional data by
adding a business flavor to it. It has to aggregate transactional data to
business process-related information. It has to analyze this information along
dedicated algorithms and finally it has to be able to influence processes for
which the analysis of the generated information on business level has led to the
conclusion that the underlying process is running in a wrong way.
Especially the second aspect of this way of process centricity is almost a terra
incognita and has to be investigated from scratch. Of course modern Business
Intelligence and Data Warehousing solutions are able to collect transactional
data from business applications and to analyze the information in business
related dashboards, but in most cases the capabilities towards
process-orientation, real-time capabilities, business transformation needs,
service-orientation, model drivenness, load and analysis performance,
application connectivity, and interoperability are insufficient.
Against this background and in order to address the outlined problems,
the session will explain a Vehicle-to-Business (V2B) integration platform that
connects vehicles with business systems. The V2B integration platform is used to
submit the technical raw data to a Process- Centric Business Intelligence (PCBI)
platform, where the technical and granular data is turned into transactional data of different businesses by passing it
through business transformation of various kinds and enriching it with
additional business related data and information.