How can you become an expert in Connected Vehicles? We love checklists! Let’s dive right in…
Step 1: Understand the concepts and what’s involved in the world of Connected Vehicles.
What is a Connected Vehicle? A connected vehicle is a car that is equipped with internet access, and usually also with a wireless local area network. This allows the car to share internet access to other devices both inside and outside the vehicle. Connected vehicle research aims to enable safe, interoperable networked wireless communications among vehicles, the infrastructure, and passengers’ personal communications devices.
That makes sense. Let’s move on to Step 2.
Step 2: Know the laws, communication standards and protocols in each industry.
New standards for Dedicated Short-range Communications (DSRC) will require consistent communication protocols across the automotive industry. Other sectors involved include insurers, financial institutions, health, mobile and nomadic devices, application developers, telecommunications, analytics companies and much more.
What about onboard communication telematics policies? Think about satellite, LTE/cellular, WiFi, DSRC, Bluetooth, and AM/FM. The Connected Vehicle uses many antenna’s and communication protocols that touch many sectors and their respective laws.
Step 3: Understand the management of a safe and efficient mobile environment within the domain of transportation.
Consumers want all these bells and whistles in their vehicles. They are expecting full connectivity with their cars and mobile devices. How can information and entertainment be used in vehicle communication? What about safety? There are many considerations that need to be balanced to meet consumer demand while enhancing driver safety.
Step 4: Identify software development languages and become familiar with software tools.
What? There are new languages to learn? Yes, every 6 months, if not more. The engineering and app development that must now take place in tying it all together is new and continuously being enhanced. You and your teams will need to be familiar in different degrees to be able to develop and deploy software in a connected vehicle ecosystem.
Step 5: Become certified in Connected Vehicles through a nationally recognized professional certification.
A Connected Vehicle Professional Certification course covers all elements of the Connected Vehicle- from passive safety to mobility to information and entertainment. Passing the test covering the comprehensive material will earn you a nationally-accredited professional certification.
And you thought this would be a quick checklist, huh? Aren’t you intrigued?
Mobile Comply is an internationally recognized training company specialized in mobile connectivity, and is launching the first-ever Connected Vehicle Professional Certification program. It is a collaborative initiative between the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), the Connected Vehicle Trade Association (CVTA) and Mobile Comply. The goal of the program is to provide training and certification to professionals. The complete program consists of a series of courses that will result in SAE certificates of competencies. At the completion of the program professionals will sit for a certification exam.
This program provides IT professionals, software engineers, technicians, and professionals who plan to expand with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to gain understanding of the Vehicle-to-Vehicle, Vehicle-to-Infrastructure, and Vehicle-to-X foundational concepts in today’s ever changing world of technology. Emphasis is on the connected vehicle’s functions, communication protocols, hardware architecture, and software architecture methodologies within the vehicle-to-vehicle ecosystems to ensure globally and social best practices within the communication of connected vehicles.
