About

“O7Connected – An innovative connected vehicles platform for safe and eco mobility” is a research project, co-financed by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants 2014-2021, in the frame of the Programme. This research project is carried out by OSeven Single Member Private Company.

General

Connected vehicles can connect to the internet via a 5G SIM-card embedded in the vehicle and record valuable data coming from the engine, the sensors, or the operating system of the vehicle.  This connected vehicle technology, can offer substantial benefits not only for internal combustion vehicles but also for electric vehicles, which also opens exciting new opportunities for related applications using crowd-sourced data. In addition, connected vehicle data sets can be utilised to further improve autonomous vehicle behaviour, since such vehicles will be able to communicate with each other and be connected with the road infrastructure using the low latency offered by the integrated 5G SIM cards.

Furthermore, edge computations, where data is processed and stored close to the data source, offer new capabilities enabled by the increased privacy and reduced latency and cost that edge computing has to offer. Exploiting the edge-computing capabilities of connected vehicles would allow connected telematics services, to be moved to the edge and leverage the wealth of information offered by connected vehicles’ sensors in real-time, thus reducing both computational costs as well as cloud maintenance costs, and consequently making such products more competitive at a global scale.

The goal

The goal of the O7Connected project is to expand OSeven’s current insurance telematics solution for the new era of connected vehicles. The project will take place in two phases: firstly the development of a Big Data infrastructure able to retrieve, analyse and process data from connected vehicles, with the highest possible accuracy and advanced data homogenisation techniques will take place, and then OSeven will develop the necessary machine learning algorithmic background needed for transferring cloud-based computations to the edge.

The O7Connected data platform will:

• Expand the current behaviour analysis solution
• Evolve the driving behaviour scoring model
• Establish a data architecture that will enable the potential future development of new services

The outputs

The main output of O7Connected will be the evolution and extension of Oseven’s current telematics platform, algorithms and scoring models to become compatible with connected vehicles and their accompanying data sets. This will allow OSeven to introduce to the global market the most advanced and, eventually, complete telematics solution for connected vehicles, offering connected telematics solutions of the highest accuracy.

Furthermore, the use of edge-computing capabilities will allow the company to:

• Introduce real-time features in its product
• Evaluate driving behaviour and eco-driving scores without necessitating cloud-based computations
• Develop the necessary tools for allowing the communication in real time

The features developed by OSeven during the O7Connected project will be tested and validated in a series of commercial pilots during the project’s final phase.