Cloud computing is being adopted rapidly today, fueled by the explosion in mobile devices. The car is the third-fastest-growing mobile 'device'. Mandated use of the Cloud by the American government is pushing even faster growth. The shift to electric vehicles adds even more urgency. Here is a view of how the car is becoming a moving information transceiver for the Cloud...a mobile sensor that feeds the Cloud. See also some work on a First Responder Test-Bed in Canada

1. The Car and the Cloud
Presentation to DIVA
August 31, 2012
Barry Gander, Chair, NVA
EVP, CATA
613-340-0701 bgander@cata.ca

2. Who’s Playing

3. What we do: Greenville 4G BMW
April 27, 2010

5. No one cares about the Cloud
• 95% of those claiming never to have
used the Cloud, actually do so via
online banking, shopping, music…
• People don’t care how, they care
about convenience.

6. They care about convenience so much
that mobile Cloud is Key to All Cars…
Newspapers - 480 m daily
PCs - 1.1 b
Phones - 1.2 b land-line
Internet users - 1.4 b
Transforms car value equation:
80% of innovation in car today from ICT
Vehicle 3rd-fastest-growing connected device
(smartphones, tablets)

7. Clarity
• Cloud: data acquisition or distribution through
the Internet and wireless networks (not stored
locally)
• Dramatic uses in places we don’t see
– Developing world: b/m used cars Kenya, Nigeria
• Redefines car as moving information transceiver

8. The Cloud Means…Standardization
• A comparison that Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst made
recently on the importance of standardization during
the manufacturing era, of assembly parts: “If nuts and
bolts had been patented and you had to buy your
screwdriver from the same company that made the
screws, the jet engine would not have been invented.
Nuts and bolts were the ‘open source’ of the
manufacturing era.” Jim compares the arrival of the
Cloud to the standardizing influence of nuts and bolts,
making a plug-and-perform component assembly
possible in the information era.

9. …Efficiency
• Cloud services can be deployed rapidly for substantial
savings. The GSA shifted email to the cloud, for example, for
a 50% reduction over 5 years. Clouds are:
• Economical: with pay-as-you go, low initial investment;
• Flexible: able to add or subtract capability quickly and easily;
and
• Fast: eliminating long certification processes, while
providing a near-limitless selection of services.
• Keystone private sector organizations have been quick to
create Cloud ecoystems to make adoption easier. IBM plans
to support about 200 million users by the end of 2012 as
clients shift core applications and processes to the IBM
SmartCloud.

10. …Mandated information flow
• The U.S. feds spent $600-billion on IT in the past decade, with little
improvement compared to the private sector. Projects were hand-
crafted, over-budget, and behind schedule.”
• The shift that is now mandated to the “Cloud First” policy will:
– TERMINATE one-third of underperforming projects;
– CRUSH 800 datacentres out of 2,000, because they exist to run custom-
made software;
– MODULARIZE development
– CREATE a government-wide marketplace for data centre availability.
• Information will be force-fed into the Cloud, and vehicles will tap
into it

11. What‘s in the Mobile Cloud?: Video
• Mobile Web browsing and
especially mobile video will
grow.
• By 2015, mobile video will
account for 68.5 percent of
all mobile data usage in the
U.S. (or 224
petabytes/month).
• Coda estimates that 95
million mobile handset
subscribers in the U.S. will be
watching video on their
phones in five years out of a
total of 158 million mobile
internet users.
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12. Car Design
Ford Evos Hybrid
Concept Car
• Smaller central console, data on remote server
• Increases the car’s capabilities
– Better drive dynamics, suspension Cloud-adjusted
• Safety
– GPS-enabled augmented reality; lane-changing

13. Driving Experience
• Distance optimization between cars
• External sensor info via Cloud
– Climate sensing triggers car (defrost windows)
• Travel: where you are, what’s ahead
• Personalized data travels with you
– Calendars, music
• Health: heart rate monitor
• Voice-delivered Twitter, Facebook updates (BMW)
• Cloud as restrictive tool
– Shuts down texting, or calling over a certain speed
• Driverless Cars – now legal in Nevada

14. Infrastructure
IBM and Swiss Utility
use smartphone app for
remote charging
• E-vehicles talk to power smart-grids
– Determines best times for charging
• Geo-location (find what you’re looking for as you
drive) saves time, fuel
• Route optimization:
– Traffic and weather download and interaction
– App lets travelling buddies stay close together

15. Basics
• User interface vital - intuitive
– MyFord touchscreen interface hurt quality index
• Right content, right time (esp. 1st Responders)
• Does app exceed customer needs?
– Car’s calendar linked appointments to alarm clock
• Safety, not flash, is the prime concern
– 91 % would love to see a lane-change, blind-spot warning
system in their cars.
– 83 % want in-vehicle technologies that would automatically call
a tow truck
– Three-quarters would like technology that would stop their car if
the driver suffers a heart attack or other sudden illness

16. Some activity
QNX concept car:
Porsche Carrera
• Toyota and Microsoft
– Global Cloud-based telematics system
• Intel’s new $100-m Cloud car fund
• GM Onstar has 6m users
• Ford SNYC crowd-sourced Cloud contest: Caravan Track
• QNX voice control over infotainment

17. Evolution
• Surround the car occupant with the
social network and global knowledge
– Car interior as a friend delivering
employee networks, all contacts, all
news, entertainment, health, travel, and
environmental control

18. NVA: Cloud and First Responders
• New technology is rapidly being deployed that transforms the
communications opportunities for First Responders.
• Vehicles = mobile intelligent sensors and autonomous networking nodes
• A Test-Bed will allow FRs to find optimal solutions and showcase uses.

19. Technology Momentum Application to First Responders Proposed Test-Bed
LTE: Compelling for Responders
Narrow-band will remain platform of choice
for mission-critical needs for some years to
come… THEN LTE
• Supported by all service providers, makers
• Vendors and device ecosystem support
• Simple antenna, multiple services
• Strong security
• Endorsed by major Public Safety
associations
• Continuously evolving technology

20. Elements
• Real road, real world
• Control and assembly area
• In-vehicle data hook-ups and back office

22. Priorities by Knowledge Map

23. Priorities
Interoperability Single solution for all emergency All-important
services and with municipal and other
information infrastructures
Information Provision of exactly the right Could help ambulances and
Management information in the emergency context; fire vehicles get clear lanes
tie-in to infra like traffic lights Want to use Test-Bed to
transmit more information;
see what happens.
Equipment Test of approaches like software-
Unification defined-radio to make a single device do
the work of many
Remote Access Evaluate proposed solutions

24. Top Uses
Feature Description Comments
Collaboration All emergency services work hand-in- First time in Canadian
hand with Private Sector emergency service history
that it would be possible for
all emergency services to
work with the private sector
in developing and testing
technologies of the future
under real-life conditions.
Best overall benefit
Real-Life Feel touch and see proposed solutions Faster adoption of systems of
Testing real value
Input Give input directly to vendors Get vendors to work with
First Responders to ensure
the what they are doing
solves a real problem and is
relevant.

25. Test-Bed Steering Committee
• Steve Palmer, Exec Dir, Centre for Security Sciences
• Claude Belisle, VP, CRC
• Lance Valcourt, Exec Dir, Cdn Interop Interest Group
• Steve Erwin, Dir, MTO
• Rock Lavigne & Benoit Charron, Inspectors, Ottawa & Gatineau Police
• Michael Sullivan, Division Chief, Ottawa Fire Service
• Michael Doucet, CTO, RCMP
• James Palmer, Lt. Col., National Defence
• Barry Gander, Chair, NVA (ALU, Motorola, WiSense, nTerop…)

26. Feedback
Barry Gander
Chair, NVA
bgander@cata.ca
613-340-0701

27. Mobile Technologies Support Each Other
3G/UMTS/HSDPA/4G and WLAN
are NOT competitors….
…they support each other as
partners
With much of this increased traffic directly attributable to dual-mode smartphones featuring both
3G and WiFi access – with the iPhoneTM representing the vanguard of this movement – many
mobile operators are now looking at WiFi networks as a way to offload data from their 2G or 3G
infrastrucure. Offloading effectively forestalls the requirement for expensive mobile network
upgrades while delivering a positive user experience. That is, assuming the WiFi network is up to
the task.
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28. Future Challenges in Wireless Communications
Major Trends:
• Ubiquitous, global wireless broadband communications
• New Wave of wireless connectivity: Smart grid, cars, buildings, medical devices,
TVs, gaming devices, appliances, tablets...
• IP protocol centric communications
Limitations in Spectrum Proliferation of Wireless Devices
• Little available spectrum • 24 Billion devices by 2020 (GSMA)
• Max spectrum usage 17% • Open Access environment
• Increasing security vulnerabilities
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29. Spectrum Sharing Innovation Impediments
• Primary use of indoor simulation/emulation (WiFi)
environments
• Lack of realistic physical testbed environment for spectrum
sharing research and experimentation
• Industry looking for assurance on ROI drivers, limiting
focus to a few spectrum bands
– RF behaviors, spectrum etiquettes, security, loss of control
• Lack of integrated testbed environments with cellular, grid,
transportation and cyber infrastructure
• Collaboration need between national and commercial
stakeholders
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30. Technology Momentum Application to First Responders Proposed Test-Bed
Kanata Test-Bed and Showcase
 Testing, demonstrations and continuous
collaboration
• Ultra-bandwidth plus current bandwidths
• 15 km radius
• Status:
– LTE equipment set aside
– Spectrum obtained
• First Responder initial meetings done
• Min of Transport Ontario interest: traffic management

31. Test-Bed Features
• Close to real field deployment environment: Spectrum, Speeds,
Needs, Feeds
• Ability to deal with constant technology evolution, integration
• Diverse applications in various First Responder, verticals
• Adaptation to multiple standards, multiplicity of vendors
• Simultaneous service to different communities of interest
• IPR protection, secure information dissemination
• Privacy, Security, Legal administration
• Prelude to Nation wide remote connectivity