Soracom and Toyota demo connected car architecture

  • October 28, 2024
  • Steve Rogerson

IoT platform provider Soracom showed a proof of concept (PoC) for a network architecture for connected cars at last week’s All-Member Meeting hosted by the Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC) in Berlin, Germany.

ThePoC, developed in collaboration with Toyota Motor, aims to connects cars securely with Soracom’s OEM cloud.

The AECC is a cross-industry, non-profit consortium dedicated to promoting best practices for the convergence of vehicular, computing and network technologies. The AECC All Member Meeting, subtitled Driving Connectivity, Advancing Mobility, had demos highlighting these advancements.

Soracom joined the AECC in May this year. As a member organisation, the company works alongside mobile network operators (MNOs), automobile manufacturers, communications and cloud service providers, and other related technology standards organisations and technical communities to establish technologies and standards that advance the connected car industry.

“We are thrilled to work with Toyota Motor on this PoC,” said Kenta Yasukawa, CTO of Japanese firm Soracom. “This collaboration represents a major step forward in enabling seamless, secure and long-lasting connectivity for automotive ecosystems that should help the next generation of connected cars maintain a secure connection with their OEM cloud backend.”

At the meeting, Soracom showed a PoC demonstration of a connected car authentication and secure network. Working with Toyota (global.toyota), a fellow AECC member, the company is conducting phased testing. Soracom is also collaborating with AECC’s global members on R&D to enable connected cars to connect to the cloud securely.

The AECC (aecc.org) is an association of cross-industry, global leaders working to explore the rapidly evolving and significant data and communications needs involved in instrumenting billions of vehicles worldwide. Its goal is to find more efficient ways to develop distributed computing and infrastructure network architectures to support the high-volume data needed for intelligent vehicle services.

Soracom (www.soracom.io) is a technology partner to more than 20,000 startups, SMBs and enterprises, connecting more than six million IoT devices globally.