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monthly mobile data traffic per In the case of DSRC, dedicated will be seen in all of the major
smartphone in North America hardware is used for data markets.
reached 8.6GB (286MB per communications to and from How will the Connected
day) by the end of 2018. the vehicle. It is likely that Vehicle compare to the typical
What will the data C-V2X will also require a smartphone user? According to
consist of tomorrow? dedicated modem rather than a 2018 report, monthly mobile
trying to share bandwidth with data traffic per smartphone in
As vehicle manufacturers a modem that is supporting North America will rise to 50GB
increase the number of infotainment services or (1.6GB per day) by the end of
models within their vehicle vehicle telemetry. From the 2024. With a 2023 Connected
fleets that are a) connected perspective of data-volume Car transferring ~8GB per day,
and b) carrying more data to the vehicle manufacturer, the data volume from vehicles
gathering capabilities from the safety data is exchanged will rapidly outstrip that of
a range of different sensor over a different connectivity smartphones.
types, one should expect interface, however, it is very With vehicle fleets deployed
that the data volumes that likely that indications will be globally and the ecosystem
the manufacturers will gather recorded in the general vehicle of dealerships, service
will increase. In addition, new telemetry. partners, insurance and
features and functionality will
be added that will make use of Conclusion finance operating at regional
network connectivity. levels, the opportunity exists
The volumes of data being to exploit in-region data
One of the major focus areas transmitted to and from processing capacity to reduce
is safety – vehicle- to-vehicle, Connected Vehicles will rise the amount of data that needs
vehicle-to-infrastructure as rapidly with global production to be transported back to the
well as vehicle-to-vulnerable approaching 25 million new vehicle manufacturer’s main
road users, such as cyclists and vehicles per year and all vehicles data centres. At the same time,
pedestrians. There are many forecast to be ‘connected’ by the in-region point of presence
safety use-cases detailed by 2025. With such vehicles being can serve as a gateway for
bodies such as the US NHTSA. sold world-wide, the impact data exchange with partners
The onboard sensor sets in the of communication networks in the ecosystem.
vehicle will certainly contribute
to the vehicle’s own ability to Data volume Cost per GB (€) -low Cost per GB (€) -high
detect and (potentially) avoid (GB) end (Jio, India) end (Proximus, Belgium)
risk scenarios. The current
technologies to support 2018 cost* 0.2 17.7
communication-based safety 2019 data 0.053 0.0106 0.9381
applications such as ‘forward- volume per
collision warning’ and ‘blind vehicle
intersection warning’, are 2023 0.009 0.83
centred on the use of Dedicated forecast
Short-Range Communications cost**
(DSRC) and the emerging
Cellular-Vehicle-to- Everything 2023 data 8.33 0.07497 6.9139
(C-V2X). In such use-cases, volume per
latency is a vital component. vehicle

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