Success in the automotive sector requires us to start with the business model not the edge technology. In an excellent halloween webinar, AECC described potential “Automotive Big Data” edge use cases. AECC were predicting 100M connected vehicles in 2025 producing between 1-10 EBytes of data per month, outstripping social networks. Backhauling all of this data, to say Japan, would be a huge problem and a globally available edge infrastructure would be the answer to this. Whilst the content and insight was good, there appeared to be two underlying problems with this: There was no evidence of a business case or business model for the use cases proposed. It was unclear who would pay or be willing to pay for the infrastructure required to support these use cases. Apart from Toyota, there was no automotive manufacturer participation in the consortium or participation by automotive regulation. The consortium is predominantly network and IT providers. Addressing these will matter to AECC’s success! Identifying the way people with cars or companies making cars or servicing cars will pay for and make money from these applications, is critical to making these real. Otherwise we end up with yet one more network centric vision of what another […]