Connectivity is becoming a core foundation of the software-defined vehicle (SDV), enabling continuous software updates, instant data exchange, and smooth interaction between in-vehicle systems and cloud services.
In this technology insight, leading experts explore the key questions surrounding SDV connectivity, offering a multi-perspective analysis of current capabilities, the barriers to faster and more resilient communication, and how connectivity may reshape vehicle functionality over the next decade.
Expert contributors:
- Markus Baum, Senior Partner, Roland Berger | LinkedIn
- Konstantin Shirokinskiy, Partner, Roland Berger | LinkedIn
- Will Latham, Project Engineer – Connected Autonomous Vehicles, HORIBA MIRA | LinkedIn
Key questions explored:
- How mature is vehicle connectivity today, and how well are current technologies meeting the real-time data, update, and communication demands of software-defined vehicles?
- Of the key barriers to high-speed, low-latency SDV connectivity – from in-vehicle network bandwidth and edge computing limitations to cellular coverage gaps – which are the most critical to resolve first?
- Which emerging networking solutions, architectures, and communication standards show the most promise for overcoming these barriers, and is the industry converging on a common connectivity framework?
- Beyond enabling updates and data exchange, how is the relationship between in-vehicle and cloud connectivity changing what an SDV can do, and where are the boundaries between on-vehicle and cloud-based functionality settling?
- Looking out ten years, will the SDV become a cloud-connected endpoint or shift toward greater on-vehicle intelligence, and how will that shape vehicle design?