Autonomous driving fuels massive data growth of IoT - IoT Agenda

During a recent meeting with one of the world's largest automobile manufacturers headquartered in Japan, we discussed the company's Autonomous Vehicle program. While this might immediately draw thinking to driverless cars, this program is much more pragmatic in terms of the immediate impact that can be had. The focus is on safety features within each of the manufacturer's vehicles, including basic actions such as turning left with oncoming traffic, changing lanes, turning right on red, slowing down or speeding up, rapid braking and more. The company's publicly available Internet-connected cars already have more than 500 sensors capturing speed, location, brake pressure, steering angle, fuel level, tire pressures and temperature, which generates seven billion points of data per day. But the Autonomous Driving System test vehicles carry even more sensors such as cameras and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR).