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Digital Services as Features: Charting New Frontiers

Salman Hamza Hussain, Practice Head, Digital Architecture & Analytics
Salman Hamza Hussain

Practice Head, Digital Architecture & Analytics

Mobility

Published on 17 Sep 2023

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Digital Services as Features Charting New Frontiers

The global automotive industry is undergoing a profound transformation driven by the growing demand for integration of digital services. These offerings are helping redefine the relationship between vehicles and drivers, offering a plethora of benefits that extend beyond traditional driving experiences.

From advanced infotainment systems and connected navigation to remote diagnostics and vehicle-to-vehicle communication, digital services are emerging as being integral to modern vehicles, helping enhance safety, efficiency, and user satisfaction.

Mapping the Transformation: The Rise of Digital Services in Automotives

Traditionally, in-vehicles features were mechanical or electronic in nature. However, in recent times, we have witnessed the emergence of advanced infotainment systems.

These interactive (‘information + entertainment = infotainment’) platforms provide drivers and passengers with seamless access to a wide range of entertainment, information, and communication options. This has impacted and influenced the buying decisions of the customers. Touchscreens, voice recognition, and gesture controls today are helping enable intuitive interactions – transforming the in-car experience into a personalized and engaging journey. Additionally, integration with smartphones and external devices allows for a seamless extension of personal digital ecosystems, ensuring a familiar and connected environment while on the road.

One key enabler for digital services is the real-time connectivity that allows vehicles to communicate with external sources. This enables features like location-based services, contributing to smoother driving or travelling experience. Access to reliable and robust connectivity also facilitates remote management of vehicle, enabling drivers to perform operations like lock, unlock, and even start their vehicles using mobile app. This provides convenience to vehicle owners and streamlines their daily routines, highlighting and underscoring the transformative impact of digital services in the automotive industry.

Features Introduced as Digital Services

Digital services today play a significant role in vehicle maintenance and health monitoring. Manufacturers can equip vehicles with sensors that gather data on various components, enabling remote diagnostics and proactive maintenance scheduling. This predictive approach not only helps minimize downtimes, but also enhances safety by identifying potential issues before they escalate.

Over-the-air software updates have become a hallmark of digital services, allowing manufacturers to deliver enhancements, bug fixes, and even new features remotely. This dynamic approach to software management ensures that vehicles remain up to date with the latest technologies and improvements throughout their lifecycle.

As the automotive industry embraces digitalization, data has emerged as a valuable currency. With driver consent, manufacturers today can collect and analyze vehicle performance, driving behavior, and preferences. This acts as a further avenue for manufacturers to monetize their services.

Software Defined Vehicle Framework: Toward New Frontiers

The rise of the data-driven approach offers insights that inform design, manufacturing, and marketing strategies, leading to the development of more customer-centric products and services. This is helping drive the future of software defined vehicles (SDVs).

However, the responsible use of data and ensuring user privacy remain crucial considerations as the industry continues to leverage digital services for growth and innovation. This transformation is more often than not built around cloud services.

A cloud-based framework for SDVs should be capable of providing OEMs with the capability to define, engineer, and host their digital services offerings, besides enabling the ability to observe the digital services in operation, allowing for further improvements and the means to monetization.

Leading automotive service organizations are already investing in this direction.

Conclusion

The rise of digital services is set to play a key role in the automotive market and could well prove to be a competitive differentiator, driving the automotive OEM’s revenue plans.

As we continue ushering in an era of connectivity, convenience, and data-driven insights, digital services would help elevate the driving experience to new heights. As technologies evolve, they will likely play an even more crucial role – enabling autonomous driving, electrification, and sustainable mobility solutions that would shape the future of transportation.

For after all, the momentum around the rise of software defined vehicles is about to accelerate.

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Salman Hamza Hussain, Practice Head, Digital Architecture & Analytics
Salman Hamza Hussain

Practice Head, Digital Architecture & Analytics

Salman Hamza Hussain is a seasoned software leader with more than 20 years of software engineering experience. Throughout his career, he has led digital transformation initiatives spanning various industry sectors, including Industrial Products, Transportation, Medical Devices and more. He is recognized for his talent in incubating and expanding digital service lines, such as Managed Devices, Engineering Cloud, and Intuitive Products.

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