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Automotive Industry
In the 21st century, the application of IoT is revolutionizing the automotive industry. One of the major applications
is the creation of self-driving cars that has changed the trends of the automotive industry. Engineers have created
self-driving cars to reduce manual errors and ensure a safe drive. Various companies around the world are
creating self-driving vehicles including Google, Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Audi, and many more. These self-
driving cars use various technologies such as Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and IoT. IoT
devices are programmed in such a way that they assist in creating an automated system for self-driving cars.

These IoT devices consist of HD cameras, thermal sensors, smart navigators, speed controller, rain sensors,
wireless connectivity, and proximity sensors. While using these cars, you need to enter your location and the
destination. Then, the navigator helps locate the destination and tries to find the shortest path. After that, the
IoT-based HD cameras help in getting the visuals of the surrounding and send the data to the AI-based systems.
These systems analyze and visualize the data of the surrounding and accordingly fix the response of the self-
driving cars. Also, there are IoT-based speed controllers that help regulate the speed of these cars according to
the traffic and congestion. This is how the scope of IoT is changing the trends in the automotive industry.
Smarts Objects in IoT
The concept of smart in IoT is used for physical objects that are active, digital, networked, can operate to some
extent autonomously, reconfigurable and has local control of the resources. The smart objects need energy, data
storage, etc.
A smart object is an object that enhances the interaction with other smart objects as well as with people
also. The world of IoT is the network of interconnected heterogeneous objects (such as smart devices, smart
objects, sensors, actuators, RFID, embedded computers, etc.) uniquely addressable and based on standard
communication protocols.
In a day to day life, people have a lot of object with internet or wireless or wired connection. Such as:
• Smartphone
• Tablets

• TV computer
These objects can be interconnected among them and facilitate our daily life (smart home, smart cities) no matter
the situation, localization, accessibility to a sensor, size, scenario or the risk of danger.

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