Day: January 3, 2018

Hello Guys,

In this blog, let me describe briefly on my views regarding the adoption, role and impact of IoT in the automotive space and how the OEMs and other players in automotive space are embracing IoT to improve their business.

Firstly let me list down some of the  major disruptive trends in the automotive industry that would be the key drivers for the future:

* Shared / On-Demand Mobility
* Connected vehicles
* Autonomous vehicles
* Electric Vehicles
* Automotive Cloud
* Virtual Showrooms
* Predictive maintenance
* New business models
* New partnerships

Can OEMs Solo-Play the game to sustain and improve business?

I feel – NOT ANYMORE.

There are wide variety of expectations from the consumers which are to be addressed by the OEMs quickly and be the early adopters of latest technology trends to gain the market share.

OEMs must have different partnerships established in order to meet these demands.

Data from Vehicles – IoT brings it all :

Every Vehicle coming out of the plant now is enabled with hundreds of sensors to track, monitor and provide useful insights to the customers.

The level of useful and critical alerts/ information that could be provided depends on how much data could be collected from vehicles.

Vehicles are now self aware that could process lot of data in real time and take necessary actions seamlessly to avoid mishaps. This capability of processing the data on the vehicle itself could be related to Edge computing.

IoT and BIG data platforms which are mostly on cloud, on the other hand provide actionable business insights by analyzing the present and past vehicle data.

More strategic partnerships :

Not all Vehicle OEMs are capable of providing complete sophisticated experience to their customers. OEMs are establishing strategic partnership with many strong players to get the best experience delivered to their customers.

Few of the areas in which there could be partnerships established:

Telematics

Navigation

Infotainment

Location services

Vehicle Cloud

predictive maintenance

Vehicle analytics

Smart metering

and much more….

Cloud & IoT Platform providers role:

Cloud players ( mostly offering IoT platforms ) come into play in order to capture the IoT data, analyse and provide analytics capabilities which is key in deriving business values to the manufacturer or service providers like fleet operators.

Vehicle IoT data are collected, analyzed and also compared with the history available to derive usage patterns, provide business critical insights, improving the performance of the vehicle designs,etc.

Vehicle OEMs and their partners and customers have already started looking into many new business models by leveraging the IoT data which opened up huge opportunities for business leaders to think many innovative solutions and services to accelerate their market share and adoption.

Conclusion:

Future of Automotive seems really innovative and exciting. Vehicle users would experience brilliant automation and ease of operation & maintenance.

Share your thoughts as well to add more info on the topic.

Thanks for your time

Srivatsan

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Sure we all know Leonardo da Vinci. He was a great thinker but also a doer – put thinking into doing on a lot of different areas.

So what about SAP Leonardo? This year at SAP TechEd Barcelona I thought to give myself a challenge – Find out who or what SAP Leonardo is.

Day 0 – the travel

First I needed to travel from Eindhoven (Netherlands) via Amsterdam to Barcelona.

Day 1 – the challenge

Design Thinking with Julia Dorbic, Smart Building with Joe Binkley and Cosmo the smart %%% warehouse robot with Jan Penninkhof.

Day 2 – finding out more

A deep dive into Machine Learning with Urko Sanchez Sanz.

Day 3 – finding out even more and conclusion

Blockchain – hype or reality with Raimund Gross, talking to SAP via the CoPilot with Stefan Kirchfeld and once again Jan Penninkhof and me discussing mode 1 vs mode 2.

Mode 1 is your system of records. Mode 2 your system of innovation. Quite often people draw the conclusion that Mode 1 is boring, grey, old, … not innovative. I see it differently, there is also a lot of innovation in the Mode 1 world, look at SAP S/4HANA and BW/4HANA. Recent innovations in the transaction world.

I always use best and next practices as description. Mode 1 is about best practices and Mode 2 about next practices. SAP Leonardo helps you realizing these next practices in a best practice world.

Just like with Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. No need to put a picture up here. You all know how she looks like. With the Mona Lisa, Leonardo gave us a painting that has triggered many people for many years. Lots of different perspectives, opinions, … is she smiling or not?

He made people think!

And on the other hand he inspired others to create their own Mona Lisa:

Create your own Mona Lisa with SAP Leonardo. Get inspired by all new possibilities, take different perspectives on your daily reality and build your own next practices!

Happy painting

Credits Mona Lisa’s (from left to right)

* https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/11/leonardo-da-vinci-mona-lisa-smile/540636/
* https://www.redbubble.com/shop/mona+lisa+posters
* http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1140942/Brick-Art-The-Mona-Lisa-masterpieces-Lego.html
* https://www.onlinegalerij.nl/waar-het-maken-van-parodieen-op-de-mona-lisa-ooit-begon/

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There is a growing need for enterprises and application developers to have increased access to relevant contact details. However, there is also a huge need for the users of software and applications to feel as if their privacy is protected and their information won’t be compromised. Research by Gigya found that 68 percent of people don’t trust brands to handle their personal information appropriately.

Contact APIs provide a secure way for organizations to retrieve and modify user contact details programmatically without compromising the privacy of such users. Below you’ll find out about several contact APIs and what you can do with them. https://goo.gl/NV8bbT #DataIntegration #ML

ICYDK: I work for Red Hat Consulting as an Integration Architect and one of my primary goals is to help customers get the design and the architecture of their future systems as right as possible, and consequently get the best value out of Apache Camel. One of the common questions I get at the start of every new Camel-based project is: “Which Camel DSL should we use? What are the pros and cons of each?”

I have two pieces of good news for you. First, by choosing to use Apache Camel you have already made the right choice. Camel will turn out to be a very useful toolkit in your arsenal of libraries for lot’s of future use cases and projects to come. And second, the DSL is just a technicality that will not impact the success of your project. You can always change your mind later and even mix and match. https://goo.gl/sneH44 #DataIntegration #ML