Future Mobility: Cars will become smart devices, perfectly tailored to each user's needs.
Automotive

From automobile to autopilot.

Connectivity, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics with big data will revolutionize the future of motor vehicles. Every day, these market drivers give rise to brand-new services enabled by fast, stable and secure Internet connections. Connected cars account for 80 percent of new vehicles. These "data centers on wheels" are becoming juicy targets for cybercriminals, however. To address this concern, T-Systems and Deutsche Telekom have developed an end-to-end security solution – a form of cyber defense as a service – for the entire automotive ecosystem, from mobile security to backend security.

T-Systems facilitates the digital transformation of the automotive sector with powerful ICT solutions: Cloud, Collaboration, Security in PLM, SCM as well as Sales and Aftersales.

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The Cloudifier is a 360-degree service for the migration of application landscapes to cloud platforms operated by T-Systems. It comprises end-to-end service packages in a choice of standardized sizes (XS–XL), at fixed prices with an industrialized approach. During the design phase, legacy applications are tested to identify strengths and weaknesses. During the transformation phase, applications are cloud-enabled, harmonized and migrated. During the operation phase, T-Systems assumes responsibility for operations, via an on-premises, hybrid or multi-cloud solution. Experience with over 250 international projects has shown that businesses can transfer approximately two-thirds of their applications to the cloud. This increases the stability and efficiency of their IT systems, while cutting maintenance and operating costs – and freeing up resources for innovation. 

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Author: Guido Reinking
Illustration: Cindy Schmid

Protecting cars from cyber crime 24/7

The solution's core is an application known as Embedded Security Locks, or ESLOCKS for short. This cloud-based intrusion detection system recognizes cyber attacks launched against the car and immediately takes countermeasures, for example if a hacker tries to disable the windshield wipers during a rainstorm. The self-learning system spots anomalies in a single vehicle or across entire fleets and bundles the resulting insights into 24/7 security updates for the entire vehicle network.
For carmakers like Daimler, Audi and BMW or for infrastructure projects in e-mobility, “virtually all innovations rely on cloud applications that intelligently link data and information from multiple sources and provide anytime, anyplace access to it,” explained Dr. Marc Schmickler from T-Systems. The SI expert is convinced that “the implementation of innovations cannot be permanently separated from an organization’s standard IT set-up, but rather requires an integrated strategy for a holistic digital concept”.

“Cars will become smart devices, perfectly tailored to each user’s unique needs.”
Dieter May, SVP digital services and business models BMW group
One fast, painless way to the cloud is Cloudifier, a managed service offered by TSI Global IT. It quickly and reliably transforms applications to cloud services on a defined schedule for a fixed price, or simply builds cloud-native applications from the ground up for customers. “Cloudifier is a customer promise that enables organizations to easily and rapidly deploy business ideas and innovation projects while retaining full cost and performance control and visibility.”
Connecting vehicles to drivers, central backends and the surrounding environment is essential for autonomous mobility. But this is where conventional cellular networks struggle to keep up. That is why T-Systems is collaborating with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence to build a communications system based on the future 5G mobile network standard. The German state of Saarland, in particular, is supposed to serve as the nation’s pilot region for this vital technology that will enable safe, secure driverless cars. Someday soon, rush-hour chaos may be transformed into a calm, orderly procession.

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2.8 cm are added to the braking distance when a self-driving vehicle going 100 km/h is stopped remotely over a 5G network. 2.40 meters would be added under the current standard. (Source: www.mobileworldlive.com).

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5G has a latency of 1 millisecond. Humans cannot perceive a delay that short. However, 25 milliseconds can be too much for a driverless vehicle or a surgical robot. 5G will respond within around one millisecond (Source: www.sueddeutsche.de).

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Fully autonomous driving systems are expected to reduce accidents by 45 percent on highways, and 27 percent on state roads (Source: www.swissre.com).

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There has been over 30 percent annual growth in car-sharing members in North America and Germany since 2000 (Source: www.mckinsey.de).

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43 percent of Europe’s 250 automotive companies are already working on implementing projects for connected cars (Source: PAC, Connected Car in Europe, 2015).

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