Realtime Human-Automotive Communication through the Cloud

Overview

Aiden is a California based startup founded by leading innovators from Volvo Cars, who partnered upwith Folio3 to develop a cloud-first system that lets cars share real-time data securely, making drivingsafer and more efficient.

The Challenge - Handling large amounts of data in realtime

Folio3 recognized the customer’s need for vehicles to participate in our connected world through:

• Using real-time data from automotive IoT devices to address various automotive challenges.
• Handling traffic and data in large-scale volumes
• Ensure transparent data collection to ensure customer consent and compliance.

The Solution - Cloud-first Approach for Seamless Scalability:

Folio3 critically assessed the problem and predicted significant data volume growth as product usageincreases.

Based on this, Folio3 proposed an AWS based, auto-scalable solution for easier, automated scalingbased on the active user volume at any time, while also minimizing the need for manual intervention.

In addition to the above, Folio3’s adoption of a Cloud-based solution successfully mitigated these widerchallenges:

• An Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud based web application that collects data from the cars with the consent of the owners.
• Amazon Lambda was used to execute code for real-time data sharing, bi-directional vehicle communication, and anomaly detection in the cloud-based web application.
• Amazon IoT Core connects IoT devices securely to the cloud, enabling bidirectional communication and data exchange with managed services.
• Amazon S3 for large-volume data storage.
• Amazon ElastiCache was used to provide in-memory caching for faster data access and improved application performance
• Furthermore, Amazon Cl—oudformation was utilized to automate the infrastructure management and deployment processes.
• Amazon CloudFront delivered content quickly, reducing rendering times and improving the user experience with low latency and fast transfer speeds.
• NAT Gateway was utilized to allow private subnets in the VPC access the internet securely for using external services.

Technologies Used

Development Stack

Infrastructure Stack

Disclaimer: Above is not the actual architecture diagram of Aiden. This is just to give a high level idea of how IOT devices in automobiles work with the cloud.

Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/automotive/solutions/connected-mobility/