Founded in 1999, WirelessCar focuses on the automotive industry, provides digital services to customers in 100 countries and regions around the world, builds a key digital bridge between the automotive industry and telecommunications technology, and creates a one-stop automotive mobile electronic service platform.
As one of the first companies to see the opportunity of the Internet of Vehicles, WirelessCar has connected more than 8 million cars by July 2021, and car customers such as Volkswagen, Jaguar Land Rover, Daimler, and Volvo can easily take full advantage of the car on Amazon cloud technology. The value of connected services.
With the continuous expansion of the WirelessCar business, the Internet of Vehicles platform supporting its business is also facing the following challenges:
● Highly elastic and scalable infrastructure is urgently needed—WirelessCar is providing digital services to customers in 100 countries and regions around the world. There are huge challenges in the frequency and throughput of communication interactions between the car and the cloud, as well as delays and accuracy. New requirements are put forward in terms of performance and fault tolerance;
● Data analysis and security requirements——Facing massive car-end data and service data, how to realize large-capacity storage, key data management, data analysis and processing, and data security access is also one of the challenges that WirelessCar faces.
In 2015, WirelessCar started cooperation with Amazon Cloud Technology to migrate some of its solutions to the cloud; in 2017, WirelessCar formulated an enterprise cloud strategy and planned to deploy all solutions on the cloud; Cloud Technology's car networking solution has been deployed in China and the global market. Today, WirelessCar has fully adopted Amazon cloud technology, and the cloud services used include Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, etc.
● The serverless architecture ensures the flexibility and high availability of the Internet of Vehicles
Millions of Internet of Vehicles users bring massive amounts of data to WirelessCar, and the data collected by a single car's daily sensors may reach the GB level, which puts forward higher requirements for fast data processing and storage. With the help of Amazon Cloud Technology's serverless architecture, WirelessCar can achieve elastic expansion and contraction according to the actual business volume, and provide sufficient computing power resources for the analysis and processing of real-time data and streaming data. WirelessCar implements event response through Amazon Lambda function computing, and uses Amazon DynamoDB to store and call unstructured data with high performance.
The Internet of Vehicles solution built on a serverless architecture enables WirelessCar to build serverless IoT applications that collect, process, analyze and act on connected car data without having to manage any infrastructure. Leveraging Amazon IoT, WirelessCar can securely connect vehicles and devices to the Amazon Cloud technology cloud with low latency and low overhead.
● End-to-end data encryption fully guarantees vehicle data security
No matter for the Internet of Vehicles platform or car companies, data security is always the top priority. WirelessCar performs encryption work on data from the moment it is collected from the car. Through Amazon SQS, WirelessCar can use server-side encryption (SSE) to encrypt the body of each message to exchange sensitive data between applications. Use managed Amazon WAF to defend against potential cyber attacks and ensure data security.
In addition, in the cloud, WirelessCar also comprehensively guarantees data security through the combination of dynamic encryption and static encryption, and truly realizes end-to-end complete encryption.
In the future, Amazon Cloud Technology will continue to be committed to providing more car networking solutions for car service providers and suppliers, from design, production, marketing, after-sales, to data processing on the way, to help build a car service system that runs through the entire vehicle. The closed-loop data flow on the cloud promotes personalized services and experiences for users.