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The past few weeks have seen IT vendors and buy-side organizations in the IoT market begin to adjust to different ways of operating and to reflect on what changes the new business as usual requires. Here are some observations from the IoT team on what is happening in our part of the technology sector.
The competition in China's self-driving car market is stiff, but AutoX's long list of private and public partnerships, coupled with its proprietary sensor fusion and self-driving AI technology, makes the small company a formidable competitor against larger rivals.
The company is taking advantage of its internal mapping expertise, as well as data from its over half-a-billion-strong network of equipped vehicles, to deliver a real-time mapping and location service to automotive clients. TomTom is also partnering with OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers on user-interface and vehicle-to-cloud integrations with network operators.
The German luxury carmaker and GPU leader are jointly developing a next-generation computing architecture for new Mercedes-Benz vehicles beginning in 2024. NVIDIA's recently unveiled DRIVE AGX Orin platform will be the centerpiece of the architecture, integrating inputs from multiple sensor types distributed throughout the vehicles.
451 Research's Voice of the Connected User Landscape (VoCUL) conducts a population representative survey of US consumers about technology adoption, usage and buying intentions to understand how various tech trends are materializing in the mass market. Topics covered in our consumer IoT and endpoints end-user survey include customer satisfaction, intent to buy, shopping preferences, product feature priorities and usages for smartphones, tablets, PC, smart watches and health & fitness monitors. It also covers connected home devices including voice interfaces or smart speakers, connected car usage priorities, and ride-sharing experiences. The Q2 2020 survey was fielded from April 2 to May 5, 2020 among approximately 5,000 respondents.
Amazon has acquired Zoox, a maker of autonomous vehicles for ridesharing, joining its many other bets on self-driving cars, robots and trucks. The buyer had made indirect moves in the transportation space previously with investments in Aurora (self-driving cars) and Rivian (delivery trucks), as well as a partnership with Embark (long-haul trucking).
Historically, cars have not been connected in a way that allowed auto OEMs to push software updates over the air. Today they are, and Airbiquity has developed an OTA software update platform that helps them capitalize on this opportunity.
451 Research's Voice of the Connected User Landscape (VoCUL) conducts a population representative survey of US consumers about technology adoption, usage and buying intentions to understand how various tech trends are materializing in the mass market. Topics covered in our Consumer Endpoints & IoT end-user survey include customer satisfaction, intent to buy, shopping preferences, product feature priorities and usage for smartphones, tablets, PCs, smart watches and health & fitness monitors. It also covers connected home devices including voice interfaces and smart speakers, connected car usage priorities and ride sharing experiences. The Q4 2019 survey was fielded among approximately 5,000 respondents.
The coronavirus outbreak has rapidly shifted global markets, including those related to enterprise technology, since we published our 2020 Trends report on the Internet of Things in November 2019. This foreword serves as an update to our 2020 predictions in light of market changes due to COVID-19.
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