2021 GSA Automotive Interest Group Workshop

WORKSHOP – Future of automotive computing: Cloud vs. Edge

With the rise of connected cars and increasing demand for compute and processing power in vehicles, OEMs start to experiment with hybrid applications running in the vehicle and on a cloud backend. The question if cloud backends can bear part of the processing power of vehicles in the mid-to-long-term will have significant impact on the electronics content of vehicles. We will look into assessing which type of operations could be run hybrid vs. fully on edge vs. on cloud, including intermediary concepts, e.g. local processing in 4G/5G towers to optimize latency. We will also look at the critical security aspects involved in any of these architectures.