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Describe what inspires you about the connected car industry. What inspires me about the connected car industry is that the car dash boards are increasingly digital. The blinking LEDs are not only in front of the driver side but also in a big panel in the middle of the cockpit. The information shown is no […]

Sharon Barkai is a Nexagon Mobility Network Engineer at Nexar, an AECC member company. Describe what inspires you about the connected car industry. The connected car industry is inspiring for many reasons. One is the promise of better safety, and the creation of the initial infrastructure for autonomous vehicles, which promises not only safety but […]

The automotive market has always been a center of innovation. In the early days it was radios and mobile phones, and today we’re watching the future of autonomous driving, HD mapping and a variety of other services unfold. Connected vehicles are in everyone’s near future, and while their development holds immense opportunity, it also carries […]

Blog by: AECC President and Chairperson Ken-ichi Murata-san, AECC Directors Christer Boberg and Roger Berg The collaborative work of AECC members is focused on optimizing the network and computer technology that a massively-scaled connected vehicles world will need to enable next-generation connected services. Automotive companies, mobile network operators, cloud providers and other stakeholders in the […]

Blog by: AECC President and Chairperson Ken-ichi Murata-san, AECC Directors Christer Boberg and Roger Berg Seeing “architecture” and “map” in the same sentence might make one wonder why high-definition (HD) mapping needs more than a sheet of paper or a hi-resolution monitor. After all, a two-dimensional surface enables the presentation of 18 different types of […]

Roger Berg is a Board Member of the AECC, and Chair of the Marketing Steering Committee. He is Vice President of DENSO’s North American Research and Development group. Describe what inspires you […]

By AECC President and Chairperson Ken-ichi Murata-san, AECC Directors Christer Boberg and Roger Berg The AECC’s mission is to help automotive industry stakeholders prepare for the global deployment of fully connected vehicles. This 21st Century phenomenon is quite exciting, but there is a substantial amount of “under the hood” technology development required to provide a […]

Blog written by: AECC President and Chairperson Ken-ichi Murata-san, AECC Directors Christer Boberg and Roger Berg If you’re new to connected vehicles, one way to picture the market is a bucket of related use cases for the internet of things (IoT). As objects in the IoT, connected vehicles use on-board sensors to automate their operation […]

I see my role as striving to bring the best of Europe into the AECC. As we know, the AECC is a global organization with several industry players representing businesses from all major regions. Being based in Belgium, I look for ways to include the European outlook. It’s important for the connected car industry to address requirements that are relevant to all stakeholders in Europe. Everyone has their own interests and requirements in addition to wanting the industry to succeed globally.