What does the Internet of Vehicles mean？

In the automobile world, the internet of vehicles is like the internet between soul and body, which is composed of real-time position, speed information and many details of vehicles, forming an intelligent and highly interactive ecosystem.

With the Internet of Vehicles, cars can not only realize seamless connection between cars, but also have cutting-edge functions such as intelligent speech recognition and automatic driving. Without it, a car is like a computer without network support, and it can’t show its full potential.

ECU electronic control unit and OBD on-board automatic diagnosis system are the core components of vehicle networking, which are like the nerve center of the vehicle and are responsible for monitoring and diagnosing the running state of the vehicle. With the help of intelligent vehicle systems, these systems can support incomplete control, such as intelligent parking, which will automatically find parking spaces according to the surrounding environment of the vehicle; Adaptive cruise to keep a safe distance from the vehicle in front; Active anti-collision system, which can automatically intervene when the collision risk is perceived.

Internationally, Apple Carplay and Baidu Carlife in China are the representatives of car-machine interconnection, which allow drivers to easily control various intelligent functions of cars through mobile phones during driving. These car systems are the practitioners of car networking, and they project the contents of mobile phones on the in-car display screen, which improves the driving experience and indicates a smarter way of interaction in the future.

The classification of Internet of Vehicles is not uniform. According to the classification of China Automobile Association, it is divided into five development stages, from driving assistance to complete automation, and each step marks a technological leap. At present, most vehicles are in the stage of partial automation, and the realization of autonomous driving depends on the integration of cloud computing, information processing and other multi-domain technologies. It can be said that the Internet of Vehicles is paving the way for the intelligent transformation of automobiles in the future.