Cloud-based Vehicle Functions: Motivation, Use-cases and Classification

The vehicle’s interaction with other vehicles and its surrounding infrastructure is gaining more and more importance to improve safety, efficiency and eco-friendly mobility. Obtaining new information from vehicle’s environment or rather cloud requires a transition in current automotive embedded devices, which leads to an increase of interfaces and complexity in the vehicle software. The limitations of vehicle’s on-board resources underline the necessity to use new concepts, which reduce the software complexity and amount of exchanged data.