5G AND THE

CONNECTED
CAR
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INTRODUCTION
The world is bracing itself for 5G - the next generation wireless
network. Ultra-low latency and massively increased data speeds
mean that information transfer will be faster than ever before
But what does this mean for the automotive industry?
5G connectivity will be a key enabler for connected cars and autonomous vehicles as they will be
able to almost instantaneously communicate with each other, buildings, infrastructure and the
world around them. There is also potential for what services 5G can add inside the car, and how it
will enhance the passenger experience. What new apps, services and functions will be available,
and how can the automotive industry capitalise on these new value added services?
An issue that persists, however, is that of coverage. 3G and 4G are readily available in cities and
densely populated regions, but rural areas still suffer from reduced connectivity. Without universal
coverage on roads and highways the benefits of 5G for cars and vehicles will only be felt in urban
areas in the immediate future.
The formation in late 2016 of the 5GAA (5G Automotive Association) between key, automakers
and ecosystem players is evidence that the industry appreciates that 5G really has the potential to
transform the auto industry and that these opportunities are being explored early.
What is presented in this report offers background and insight into just some of the subjects and
talking points to be discussed at 5G World and Connected Cars & Autonomous Vehicles Europe
13-15 June, Excel, London. In 2017 these industry leading events are part of a festival of
technology at London Technology Week, TechXLR8, which will showcase 8 technology events
under one roof. Were looking forward to welcoming 15,000+ attendees, and we hope youll be one
of them.

Heather James Sonal Ghelani

Portfolio Manager - Connected Innovation Research Manager
Connected Cars & Autonomous Vehicle Europe 5G World

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5G: THE DRIVING FORCE

5G IS KEY TO THE EVOLUTION TOWARDS AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES THAT WILL
TRANSFORM THE DRIVING EXPERIENCE.
Kate OFlaherty reports

Although connected cars are available, the market is relatively small.

Today, around 10% of vehicles are connected but by 2020 this will surge
Functionality
to over 50%, according to IHS. Currently, connected cars use a SIM card and the 4G network. LTE enables
functions such as assisted parking, and there has been a move towards half
Currently enabled by 4G LTE, vehicles are already able to perform
automated driving where a car can take over in certain situations without the
assisted driving applications such as automated parking. But the
drivers influence, says Volker Held, head of 5G market development at Nokia.
introduction of low latency, high availability 5G technology will see this
evolve over the next five to 10 years. Connected car trials today are centred around 4G, particularly Mobile Edge
Computing, says Held. This enables latency of around 20 milliseconds or even
Among its benefits, 5G has the ability to enable fully autonomous
below, he says, which is by far enough for this kind of assisted driving.
vehicles that can connect to the network in real time. In the near future,
this will be key in accident prevention and warning drivers of danger With this in mind, Nokia is trailing LTE technology on a German highway. We
ahead. It will also offer vast improvements to in-car entertainment, giving are testing apps such as the ability to issue a warning if a car is trying to
users the ability to stream video on the move, says Christine Caviglioli, overtake, Held explains. If a fast car is coming from behind, you get a
vice president automotive, M2M at Gemalto. warning and the user can be alerted within 200 metres if there is a road
accident.
According to Gianluca Noya, managing director and mobile network
offering lead, Accenture: 5G allows you to have an immersive
entertainment experience in the car. Meanwhile, it will also be able to tell

fuel requirements and if something happens, your car can brake in
advance.

Taking this into account, the car industry is realising 5G will be key in
connected vehicles future. September 2016 saw the formation of the 5G
WE MIGHT SOON HAVE BASIC AUTONOMOUS
Automotive Association, comprising car manufacturers such as Audi FUNCTIONS LIKE OVERTAKING, BUT FULLY
and BMW, as well as telecoms giants and chip makers.
AUTOMATED DRIVING WONT HAPPEN UNTIL AT
The group is aiming to overcome technical and regulatory issues,
integrating vehicle platforms with solutions able to power the next
LEAST 2025.
generation of connected vehicles. VOLKER HELD, NOKIA

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However, even more is possible with 5G, he says. There is a clear roadmap,
starting with assisted driving, moving towards fully automated driving. 5G
will bring down latency to single digits and can guarantee 100% availability
of the connection, so it can allow fully automated driving scenarios.
In addition, 5G will enable specific components and software to connect
things at the most appropriate place and time, says Ian Hughes, analyst,
internet of things at 451 Research. This allows the vehicle to talk to
others around it..
Adding to this, says Held, 5G will be able to handle a large number of
connections and management of these. Imagine if you have 100 cars all
sending data to the network every millisecond and this has to be
processed at the network edge and made available to other cars. Then
the application on top needs to give guidance to cars on how to behave,
such as this vehicle needs to go first.
You need to be able to transmit a lot of data with multiple connections
and this has to be done in real time. The network app sitting on top of
that needs to orchestrate all the vehicles on the road. This is a massive
task and it needs 5G; current 4G is not scalable enough.
Challenges ahead
It is clear the possibilities are huge, but the connected car also faces
challenges. There are safety concerns after a person died in an accident
while using the autopilot function on a Teslar vehicle earlier this year.
It is therefore integral that security and privacy are built into the
ecosystem, says Mark Du Plessis, APAC IoT security lead, Accenture:
Data from connected vehicles will likely be driven into the cloud and this
must be protected. The only way around this is to embed security into
design, architecture testing and operations of these vehicles; this gives
you the full lifecycle.
With this in mind, experts are applying automated techniques such as
machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technology that is able to
deal with the scale of the problem posed by connected cars and the
wider internet of things (IoT). Those sorts of mechanisms will
potentially help protect the 5G networks end to end, says Hughes,
although he warns: The bad guys have access to those types of
technology too.
So the market still has some way to go: In 10 years the landscape will
look very different, experts predict. But first, assisted driving applications
will become more commonplace so the driver is used to it, says Held.
He explains: We might soon have basic autonomous functions like
overtaking, but fully automated driving wont happen until at least 2025.
Before then, the industry has a lot of infrastructure to build. This means
not just equipping highways with wireless technology, but adding
sensors to monitor pedestrians, says Held. When we have that, in
combination with intelligence inside the car and ultra reliable
connectivity provided by 5G, we will achieve much.

This is in addition to a lack of regulation and standards, although experts

agree these will come with time as the market grows and consolidates.

At the same time, cyber security is a major concern. As connected cars

become widespread, criminals will be attracted by the data they collect, as
well as the opportunity to hack and physically steal or interfere with vehicles. AUTOMAKERS AND TELECOM PROVIDERS WILL NEED
In theory, any form of wireless link even via a separate mobile phone or TO WORK IN TANDEM TO ADDRESS CYBER SECURITY
tablet could provide the route that malicious hackers need to stage an
intrusion, says Asaf Atzmon, director, business development and
THREATS ARISING FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF 5G
marketing at HARMAN. Automakers and telecom providers will need to NETWORKS, IN ORDER TO STRENGTHEN THE
work in tandem to address cyber security threats arising from the
introduction of 5G networks, in order to strengthen the security of
SECURITY OF VEHICLES AND DEVICES
vehicles and devices, he says. ASAF ATZMON, HARMAN

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WILL THERE BE AN
IPHONE MOMENT FOR THE
CONNECTED CAR?
THERE ARE MANY PARALLELS BETWEEN THE SMARTPHONE BUSINESS PRE-2007 AND THE STATUS OF THE
CONNECTED CAR SECTOR TODAY. BUT WILL THERE BE A SINGLE MOMENT, A SPECIFIC DEVICE, SERVICE OR
TECHNOLOGY BREAKTHROUGH THAT WILL DEFINE THE CONNECTED CAR?
Mark Newman, Chief Analyst of ConnectivityX shares his insight

The iPhone changed everything. Before it there were no apps stores. We
did not know for sure that the focus of digital services and technologies
would transition from the big screen to the small one from the shared
to the personal. Most importantly, we did not foresee that power in the
mobile business would shift from telecoms firms to digital ones.
Todays connected car services are useful, but not essential. They are
sold as optional extras alongside alloy wheels and leather trim. People
buy them without always knowing exactly what they are or what they
do - to make them feel safer, to give their passengers WiFi or to make
driving easier. Satellite navigation devices are the only connected
services that many people would struggle to live without (although
phones often provide a more accurate alternative).
We are a long way from the car becoming a computer on wheels. But
that is almost certainly what it will become. We know many of the
building blocks of the connected car. We understand how it will be
possible to gather information about the performance of the car (and the
driver), the route that it is taking and the things that people are doing in
the car.
This data will be sent into the cloud, processed, filtered, and then fed
back to the relevant parties (driver, passenger, dealer, automotive OEM,
insurance company, fleet manager, rental company etc). The
development of the self-driving, or autonomous car, will take connectivity
to the next level.

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But what we are less clear about is who will own and manage that platform Applications offered by the carmaker and its partners will sit in the cloud
and what services and applications will emerge assuming that the platform and they will interact with each other, allowing the carmaker to offer new
will be open to third party developers. services to multiple customer types. For example, if the system detects a
mechanical malfunction it will be possible to alert the driver, to notify the
The battle lines have been drawn between the car manufacturers on the
carmaker (and its servicing department) and, for example, to offer an
one side and digital companies such as Google and Apple on the other.
incentive to the driver to take his car to get it repaired at a specific place
Within the automotive sector, the German car giants Volkswagen,
and time.
Daimler and BMW are, arguably, the most aggressive players although
Ford and General motors from the US are also in the game. Then there is This is important because it demonstrates what can be achieved with a
Tesla, a car maker with a digital DNA. single operating system for a car. But do carmakers have the skills to build
and manage such an operating system? And how many operating systems
However, in practice we are unlikely to see a straight fight between the two
can the automotive business support? There are more three times as many
sides. There is endless speculation about potential partnerships across the
smartphones being used today as there are cars and only two operating
divide. Google partnered with Fiat Chrysler in 2015 to help develop
systems iOS ( Apple) and Android have survived. Microsoft is a minor
connected car technology.
player in mobile.
Hyundai is discussing a similar partnership with Google. Apple is reported
Successful operating systems in the PC and the smartphone businesses
to have held discussions with McLaren about a potential takeover and
are open, allowing third parties to develop applications for the end user.
there has been much talk in the past about a collaboration with BMW. In
Companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft have vast experience
the meantime, a number of carmakers are working with Apple and with
working with apps developers and offering tools such as APIs to allow
Android to make Apple CarPlay and Android Auto customised, in-car
them to build compelling services. Carmakers have no experience here and
versions of the Apps Store and Google Play to their customers.
attempts to build closed systems are likely to fail.
Telecoms operators play a crucial role in providing the connectivity for
However, despite the parallels between the smartphone and the connected
connected car applications but most lack the expertise to deliver specific
car, the two industries are very different. Cars are extremely complex and,
services to car owners.
when it comes to autonomous driving technology, it is not clear that a
For the time being, connected features in the car largely operate company such as a Google or an Apple would have the skills or the
independently of each other. There is the satellite navigation which may or experience to navigate complex national regulatory regimes.
may not be part of an audio and entertainment system. This may offer
applications typically music or games services which require an
internet connection. WiFi hotspots may be integrated but are often
connected separately. Telematics services and devices used for usage-

based insurance applications tend to be installed separately. Connected
safety features such as cruise control, emerging braking or semi-
autonomous driving applications such as park-assist do not hook into
other functions. TELECOMS OPERATORS PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE IN
But this will change. Carmakers have started to partner cloud technology PROVIDING THE CONNECTIVITY FOR CONNECTED CAR
and service providers such as Microsoft. And there is a clear vision. In
future all the connected car features will sit within an overall system and APPLICATIONS BUT MOST LACK THE EXPERTISE TO
cloud-based architecture. DELIVER SPECIFIC SERVICES TO CAR OWNERS.

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Google has already said that it does not plan to enter the car
business as an OEM but what about Apple? It does, after all,
make the vast majority of its revenues from hardware and is
often viewed as a luxury goods maker that could lend its brand
quite easily to a premium-brand car. It has already been linked
with McLaren and a company such as Aston Martin, which has
been through a number of ownership changes, could also be a
realistic takeover target.
It is still too early to say whether the iPhone moment will come
from an automotive OEM, a grouping of OEMs, from a
collaboration between one or several OEMs and a digital
company or from a digital company. The other question is
whether there will be a single iPhone moment a new paradigm
for the connected car that we cannot foresee today or whether
we are more likely to see a slow transition over a period of five to
ten years.

Looking at the automotive OEMs, the navigation business called Mark Newman is Chief Analyst of ConnectivityX,
Here which Daimler, Volkswagen and BMW jointly bought from
Nokia in 2015 could, potentially, play a role in a future operating
a research firm focussed on telecoms operator
system. Here is already diversifying away from its core mapping business models.
business to offer a range of new services to drivers. It is also

talking about bringing in other potential automotive OEM
shareholders and, with its owners agreeing to share customer
data, could emerge as a genuine rival to Google.

The stakes are huge in the connected car business because THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELF-
connected features and functionalities will alter its perceived
value. This is assuming, of course, that an open approach to
DRIVING, OR AUTONOMOUS CAR,
applications development is allowed to emerge. WILL TAKE CONNECTIVITY TO
When Apple introduced the first iPhone in 2007, Nokia was the THE NEXT LEVEL.
world leader in mobile phones with a market share of close to
40%. It was initially dismissive of the iPhone. Nokia did not
foresee that consumers would overlook some of the ways in
which the iPhone was inferior, for example, its fragility and its
less-than-intuitive interface for making phone calls. This was
because the iPhone changed the very nature of the phone.
Smartphones today are personal computers that can be used to
make phone calls.

It is difficult to foresee an iPhone moment for the car until the

age of autonomous driving arrives. This will, undeniably, change
the very nature of the car. And this is unlikely to happen until well
into the next decade because of regulatory hurdles rather than
technical ones.

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NEW TECHNOLOGIES DISRUPTING ADAS AND
AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORT
THE PURSUIT OF SELF-DRIVING CARS AND ZERO FATALITIES BY ADAS IS DRIVING DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES. THE TECHNOLOGIES OF SENSORS, FUSION, REAL-
TIME DATA, 3D MAPPING, OVER-THE-AIR UPDATES, PROGNOSTICS AND DEEP DATA INCREASE SAFETY, PROFITS, ECONOMIES OF SCALE AND SOCIETAL BENEFITS.
Lynn Walford, editor of AUTO Connected Car News, reports
Advances in ADAS
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have to access the
situation faster than humans, because human reaction time is too
long for some situations. Currently, automakers are using cameras,
sensors, and radar for ADAS which can also be used for adaptive
cruise control and traffic jam assist that will lead gradually to
autonomous driving. These technologies are getting more precise and
enabling more complex detection of objects, says Jeremy Carlson,
senior analyst, IHS Automotive.
Look for vehicles with front crash prevention and pedestrian
detection in the future, said David Zuby, executive vice president and
chief research officer, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
Mapping out the future
A problem with automotive GPS signals is that they are not precise
enough for autonomous driving. There is a push for 3D maps from
companies like Google, HERE, and TomTom because it gives
geospatial relationship to what's on the road.
3D mapping along with the GPS location for some systems, provide
information about road signs, crosswalks and other road information
is very effective and important in cities, says Carlson. However, 3D
mapping on country roads may not be as important.
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Fusion technology
To achieve better accuracy, automotive technology suppliers are
turning to fusion technology. Fusion technology combines technology
from different sources to create an innovative improved product.
Delphi Automotive and Mobileye recently announced that they are
partnering for next generation sensor fusion technology. The
Delphi/Mobileye system, Central Sensing Localization and Planning
(CSLP) fuses sensor data, vision data, artificial intelligence and route
learning.
The CSLP platform combined two flat platforms to create a much
higher resolution to locate the vehicle and also reduced the error rate.
Automotive GPS is currently limited to ~1.5m resolution
(longitude/latitude coordinates). CSLP provides a 20cm resolution
making the largest error (20cm) where CSLP is able to place the
center of a vehicle in a roadway lane while piloted autonomously, said
Gary O'Brien Ph.D., global advanced engineering director at Delphi
Electronics and Safety.
Dr. OBrien notes that localization is especially important for areas
where there is GPS denial such as tunnels and where there are not
strong road lane markings.
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Real-time data and bigger bandwidth
Sources and uses for real-time data are growing for ADAS and self-
driving. HERE announced a platform for sharing real-time data for road
hazards, traffic updates and on-street parking for the Paris Auto Show.
HERE believes these services will also support increased advanced
driver assisted systems and, later, autonomous driving solutions.
To share real-time data, vehicles must be equipped with embedded
modems and wireless data connections.
There is a trend of automakers using 4G LTE for data connections.
However, 4G has latency while DSRC (dedicated short-range
communications) that is currently in very limited deployment has low
latency.
We don't know the specifications for a 5G, yet. But it is understood
that it will be low latency, said Carlson.
Automakers and tech companies are working to make 5G a reality.
Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, Intel, and Qualcomm
have partnered to form the 5G Automotive Association to evolve, test
and promote 5G for connected mobility.
As the data pipe gets bigger and faster there will be more
opportunities for real-time data. Real-time data can also be used to
improve automotive performance.
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Real-time data can enable vehicles to run more efficiently, cut
down on the emissions and potentially avoid accidents with
other vehicles, said Scott Beulter, vice president, Continental
Automotive Systems.
The prognosis for prognostics is good
Prognostics use computer algorithms to detect potential
hardware problems and provide alerts.
Automakers lose millions of dollars when they have to pay
dealers to update the software. OTA updates save money.
Proactive prognostics save even more money. Prognostics data
can be used to predict recalls and order parts for the recalls,
notes Beardslee.
Data and analytics are the new currency of the automotive
industry, said Beardslee.

Prognostics systems are in the early stages of deployment.
General Motors recently introduced OnStar Proactive Alerts. The
service sends proactive alerts notifying customers of impending
problems with the fuel pump, starter motor and battery for some
GM models. Alerts are also sent to the dealer. When the customer
takes the vehicle in for service the repair technician doesnt have
to diagnose the problem and replaces the part faster. GM will
introduce the service for models in the future.
Prognostics are critical to both autonomous driving and ADAS
because it will create an unprecedented change in the
transportation industry, said Susan Beardslee, senior analyst at
ABI Research, Prognostics will disrupt the supply chain and
provide a higher return on investment and new revenue streams.
Prognostics are vital to autonomous driving because there is a
potential for unattended faults which may cause fatalities.
Prognostics are needed not just for the hardware but also for
the software.
The ultimate pay off of ADAS and
Autonomous Tech
The transportation industry is slow to adopt disruptive technologies.
The timeline for fully autonomous vehicles is unclear and complex,
however, the technology benefits everyone.
It took decades for automakers to offer seatbelts and years for
air bags. In the meantime, current ADAS systems and
partial self-driving systems reduce the severity and
frequencies of crashes, said Chris Hendrickson
Ph.D., director of Carnegie Mellon Universitys
Traffic21 Institute, author of Cost and Benefit
Estimates of Partially-Automated Vehicle
Collision Avoidance Technologies.
These safety systems at current
prices provide financial benefits for
both the car buyer and society.

Each new version of the software for self-driving and ADAS

requires more and more lines of code which can have bugs. Cyber
attacks and hacking can cause the need for software updates.

Over-the-air (OTA) updates are a necessary remedy to

managing software updates, said Oren Betzaleli vice president
of Redbend at HARMAN. He says OTA updates are not as simple

AUTOMAKERS AND TECH
COMPANIES ARE
WORKING TO MAKE 5G A
as they seem. There are many rainy day scenarios when a REALITY....TO EVOLVE,
software update might fail such as losing power during the TEST AND PROMOTE 5G
update or a cyber attack.
FOR CONNECTED
MOBILITY.

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Q&A: ROB SHORT,
ROHDE & SCHWARZ
ROB SHORT IS TECHNOLOGY MANAGER, AUTOMOTIVE AT ROHDE & SCHWARZ - A LEADING PROVIDER OF TEST AND
MEASUREMENT SOLUTIONS FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY.
Q: What impact do you think 5G will have on the
connected car market and future products at Rohde & Schwarz?
A: 5G is always an interesting topic. Over the last few years there has been a lot
of marketing hype about 5G without much real information behind it. That is
now changing and we see research groups forming and conversations
happening between the cellular industry and the automotive industry.
5G is being talked about for Vehicle to Vehicle Communications (V2V), but in the
short term I think a lot will depend on whether the US mandate DSRC or not. If they
do then the current technologies will be used in the near term whilst 5G has a
chance to reach maturity, but if not then I think the focus will change quite quickly.
V2V is seen as something that is essential to autonomous vehicles so it isnt
going anywhere! Rohde & Schwarz will continue to offer test equipment
whichever standard becomes the norm.
Q: The telecom and automotive industries are
converging. Is this having any impact on the types of clients,
partners or products that Rohde & Schwarz work with?
A: An interesting question. Our experience and existing relationships within the
telecom industry will be helpful to the automotive industry and we will continue to
assist both industries with the challenges they face as the two markets converge.
Q: Who will be the big winners in the connected car market?
A: The winners will be the companies that are able to understand the needs of
the market and adapt to meet them.
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Q: To deliver fully connected cars there will inevitably
need to be investment. Where do you see the main investments
being spent?
A: I think this will end up being spread across the market. A recent change seems
to be that OEMs are investing more because integrating these technologies isnt
as simple as buying a few already tested modules and fitting them to the car.
Coexistence of technologies, placement in the vehicle and antenna design are
all areas which need to be verified on the final design.
Q: What connected car features and functionalities do you think
will be most important moving forward?
A: Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) will be very important for both increasing safety
and for autonomous vehicles to become almost predictive rather than reactive.
This combined with an increased use of radar should make our roads much safer.
THE WINNERS WILL BE THE
Q: Are there any new products which Rohde & Schwarz
COMPANIES THAT ARE
are developing in this area? ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE
A: Rohde & Schwarz have an interesting array of products from handheld NEEDS OF THE MARKET
oscilloscopes to help measure the automotive busses, vector analyzers, radar AND ADAPT TO MEET
target simulators to full EMC compliance systems.
THEM.
We also offer equipment to help with the entire life cycle of V2X development
with everything from signal generators and spectrum analyzers for early R&D, ROB SHORT, ROHDE & SCHWARZ
full compliance systems and production solutions.