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Role of IoT in providing situational cooperative data from all these applications. Not
awareness for Smart Mobility only it would be expensive, but also
impracticable as this management
Service layer would have to interface with such
Provider
divergent proprietary implementations
Standard IoT
protocols using non-standard APIs. This is far from
being practicable. We must break these
IoT platform
silos, if we really want to benefit out of
Info on detected
pothole Other sources of IoT implementation.
Standard IoT data, services, IoT
protocols platforms The only way this can be achieved
in a truly transparent, interoperable
and yet secure manner is by following
a horizontal framework instead of a
vertical framework. In the horizontal
framework, there is a common
Nowadays majority of the cars are A beneficiary of the car’s sensor data service layer in between the business
fitted with many types of sensors. These can be the on-road assistance company. application and the sensors. So instead
cars generally send information to their Many of the car owners in the big of all these sensors and the associated
respective manufacturers, who in turn cities subscribe to on-road assistance. hardware & applications on the car
derive a lot of intelligence by analysing The on-road assistance provider is only sending information to the proprietary
this data to figure out how the parts of a interested about knowing where a car back-end business application, the data
car are functioning while being driven in has broken down and what part of the is pushed to a common service layer
a particular geography so that they can car has broken down, so that he can send in a standardized fashion wherein any
make modifications in the manufacturing a vehicle to the user’s comfort. Even the business application can get that data.
process. The manufacturers can then traffic police will be immensely benefited For example, a car owner decides
build their cars suitable a specific region by having access to this data because if a that his car’s information should go to
or country. car has broken down during office hours only a particular service provider and
A subset of this data thus generated in a busy city road, the traffic personnel insurance provider. Here, the car owner
by the same set of sensors can be very will then have to send a towing vehicle will be the one who is permitting this
useful for the service provider who straightaway or divert the traffic. Even the data access. And having this common
provides periodic service for the car (and commuters need not depend on Google service layer and the security framework
this definitely is not the manufacturer) to know which route is congested. built into it, the data pertaining to the car
because he needs this information to Similarly, there can be many such is shared amongst the stake holders only
cater to the client. So, the servicing application use cases where the data after obtaining permissions from the car
partner is going to know as to what in generated by the sensors if shared, can owner. So, unlike in the vertical centric
your car is likely to fail, how your car bring immense value. These applications implementation, the owner is at the
is being driven, and which inventory is become unviable if each of these total control of this data in a horizontal
depleting so that he can provide logistics applications is required to install its own framework. In a siloed implementation,
information regarding those. The service exclusive set of sensors. the data goes to the manufacturer
provider can also give feedback as to, So, it becomes amply clear that the whether one likes it or not.
which are the cars needing attention. real benefit of the sensor data is obtained The common service layer thus
Another consumer of the data thus when divergent applications share it. provides a standardised interface through
generated by the sensors can be the This sharing has to be done in a secure which multiple divergent applications can
insurance company, as the company manner with proper authentication, extract data after proper authentication
insures user/driver by virtue of the driving authorisation and accounting. Advocates and authorisation. The owner of the data
pattern/skills. The insurance premium of the proprietary siloed application remains in complete control of the data
thus charged can then be based on the providers may argue that the data can and decides whom to share the data
driving skills and a safe driver can earn be shared from the business applications with.
significant discount on the premium also. But that would require another Additionally, the data provides future
amount. This would also significantly management layer being created (as proof interoperability as it completely
reduce false claims. shown in the figure) which would extract hides all the complexities of the car-end

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