Adaptive In-Car External Applications using Nomadic Smartphones and Cloudlets
Lionel Nkenyereye, Jong-Wook Jang · International Journal of Control and Automation · 2015
Computerized in-vehicle systems are used to generate data about vehicle operations such as vehicle on-board diagnostics and vehicle information obtained from devices mounted on road infrastructures. Detectors located along the roadside are pivotal to Intelligent Transport Systems services, including real time management of driven information. In this paper, we propose a model that affords in-car external applications based on nomadic smartphone, virtual machine-based cloudlets, and car manufacturer’s private cloud computing that on one side delivers remote diagnostic and vehicle performance information software as a service and can also be viewed as a doorway to deliver cloud based applications on other side. Virtual machine-based Cloudlet is used to improve response time extended by diverse communication latencies. We designed a remote vehicle assignation cloud computing platform service responsible for real time analysis of vehicle information and providing internet applications to the car user by using a vehicle-to-smart phone applications interface approach, which helps the smartphones to act as a remote user which passes driver inputs and delivers output from external applications.