Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Connected and autonomous vehicles need a way to connect to a mobile network.

Ericsson predicts that all the manufactured vehicles will be cellular-enabled by 2025, “leading to an enhanced driving experience made possible by innovative connected services, like assisted driving and better infotainment”. Being cellular-enabled will require the vehicles to have e-SIMS to connect them to a 5G network and they will enable over-the-air (OTA) updates, removing the need to go to a dealership to update software. With cellular connectivity, the updates will occur automatically.

In their September 2020 blog, eSIM: Driving global connectivity in the automotive industry, Francesco Militano, strategic product manager, and Tandy Xinglong Mai, head of global connectivity for automotive at Ericsson, explain: “Chevrolet… issued a recall on its flagship 2020 Corvette model to fix a glitch in its trunk. As a result, some owners will have to take their car to the dealer for the necessary software update, but for those who signed up to receive theirs over-the-air, the update will be made automatically and without any disruption to their lives.”

Discover more, read the complete article

Client: InformaTech, published by TU Automotive on 23rd September 2021; also published by Urgent Communications on 13th October 2021. Author: Graham Jarvis.

Posted in , , , , , , , , , , ,

Leave a comment