Currently, the world economy is accelerating its transition towards economic activities centered on information and communication technology industries, and the connotation and extension of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) industry are changing accordingly. The IoV is a strategic emerging industry that integrates new-generation information and communication networks, smart connected vehicles, and intelligent transportation, and it represents a new form of deep integration between advanced manufacturing and modern service industries. The innovative development of the IoV industry plays a crucial role in implementing the strategies of becoming a manufacturing powerhouse, a cyber powerhouse, and a transportation powerhouse, and is significant for promoting the development of China’s digital economy.
He Xia, former chief engineer of the Policy and Economic Research Institute of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology stated that as a practitioner of integrated innovation, the IoV industry balances the development needs of various fields involved, gradually forming a “resonance effect” in industrial integrated development, impacting the organizational structures of industries such as automotive, information communication, and public traffic management. The organizational structure of the IoV industry itself also shows characteristics of cross-industry cooperation integration and diversified infrastructure deployment, along with new evolutionary trends. In the future, policies and regulations, as well as cross-departmental collaboration, should be optimized to enhance the organizational structure of the industry and promote high-quality development of the IoV industry.
Optimizing the organizational structure of the industry,
promoting high-quality development of the IoV industry
1. Introduce policies and regulations to optimize the environment for industrial integrated innovation development. Jointly conduct trend predictions for the integrated innovation development of the IoV industry across industry regulatory departments, formulate industrial development policies in a timely manner, and improve the legal and regulatory framework, as well as innovative product access and supervision frameworks.
2. Promote industrial integration, infrastructure collaboration, model innovation, and cross-departmental cooperation. Looking ahead, there is still a need to further strengthen industrial integration, infrastructure collaboration, model innovation, and cross-departmental cooperation, to create new modes of cross-industry chain integrated development, build new types of cross-industry and cross-regional collaborative infrastructure, and explore the formation of sustainable construction and operation models and value spaces.
3. Create integrated innovation carriers to continuously optimize the IoV industry ecosystem. Fully leverage the collaborative innovation role of manufacturing innovation centers, industry organizations, and other carriers, improve the standard system of the IoV industry, enhance public service capabilities for testing and verification, promote gradual technological evolution and breakthroughs, and facilitate collaborative research and industrialization development along the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.
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The Connotation, Extension, and Development Trends of the IoV Industry
Reassessing the connotation and extension of the IoV industry. Currently, the world economy is accelerating its transition towards economic activities centered on information and communication technology industries, and the connotation and extension of the IoV have undergone significant changes. From its early development, the IoV focused on comprehensive application services and gradually expanded to the digital transformation of manufacturing, the construction of intelligent new infrastructure, and the intelligent transportation service system, leading to a deeper understanding of the IoV. In this new stage of development, I believe that the IoV is an information physical fusion system that achieves “people-vehicle-road-cloud” information interaction and efficient data processing through new-generation information and communication technology, integrating multi-dimensional and multi-layered elements such as automobiles, road infrastructure, transportation and management, applications, and services.
The IoV covers a wide range of industries, impacting the production methods of multiple traditional industries through the use of advanced information, communication, and control technologies, and profoundly affecting the transformation and upgrading of the automotive manufacturing industry, service industry, telecommunications industry, public traffic management industry, financial insurance industry, and other related industries. At the same time, the IoV achieves global optimization and control through fine-grained perception, significantly increasing safety, efficiency, and convenience, promoting innovations and applications of information technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and big data, and facilitating the transformation of traditional industries from simple product manufacturing to product and service integrated innovation, while changing the lifestyles and social management modes related to automobiles.
The trend of open and integrated development of the IoV industry. The IoV industry ecosystem involves multiple fields such as information communication, automotive, transportation, and public safety, exhibiting characteristics of integration, openness, and innovation.
The information communication industry actively integrates with automotive and transportation. Under the typical system architecture of “end-pipe-cloud,” it provides multi-dimensional and multi-functional technical empowerment to industries such as automotive and transportation through technologies like wireless communication, cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence. On one hand, the communication industry provides “pipe” and “cloud” services to vehicle-mounted and roadside “end” systems and devices; on the other hand, terminals can request targeted capability settings and adjustments from networks and platforms under the constraints of adapting to communication frequency bands and protocols.
The automotive industry provides application platforms for IoV integrated innovation. To meet the demands for new types of vehicle-mounted information services and intelligent connected applications such as autonomous driving, the IoV will become an added part of the vehicle perception system, providing real-time traffic events, vehicle blind spots, and beyond-visual-range perception as incremental information. On one hand, the automotive industry has raised new requirements for information communication regarding data reliability and service accuracy, proposing new infrastructure construction needs for wide coverage and full-network service. On the other hand, in the interaction with information communication, transportation, and management industries, the automotive industry, as a product aimed at end-users, provides more efficient, convenient, and reliable services for drivers and passengers.
The transportation and management industry plays the role of an “enabler” and “empowerer” in the integration of the IoV industry. The transportation industry utilizes information communication technology to enhance the networked and intelligent level of transportation and management services, improving digital governance capabilities, and promoting the upgrade and evolution of traffic management capabilities, thus becoming an “enabler.” At the same time, the integration of transportation and information communication technology becomes an “empowerer,” providing data services to intelligent connected vehicles, extending services from roadside to vehicle-side, and enhancing the safety and efficiency of road transportation.
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Open Integration of the IoV Industry
Driving Innovation in Industrial Organizational Structure
Impact on the Organizational Structure of the Automotive Industry. The development of the IoV industry has a significant impact on the demand, supply, and organizational structure of the automotive industry, driving the transformation and leapfrog development of the domestic automotive industry.
From the perspective of meeting user needs, the IoV has shifted user demands from a single focus on vehicle hardware conditions to simultaneously considering soft demands for real-time information, traffic flow, and other diverse information provided within the vehicle; from the perspective of business product supply, the IoV is gradually constructing a complete in-vehicle system that can provide applications such as automotive navigation systems based on Beidou/GPS positioning, road condition information systems, vehicle collision avoidance safety driving systems, emergency alarm systems after vehicle collisions, after-sales service systems based on vehicle diagnostics, and IoV insurance service systems based on driving behavior, thereby enhancing the digitalization, networking, and intelligence levels of the automotive industry and constructing a new information consumption system; from the perspective of technological advancement in automobiles, the IoV enhances the front-end R&D design capabilities of vehicles, and the large amount of driving behavior and vehicle scene data aggregated on the IoV platform provides foundational support for the R&D of underlying algorithms, product design, and software system optimization, further improving the R&D capabilities of the industry. In terms of the transformation of the automotive industry, the IoV assists in transforming automobiles from mechanical and electronic products into new architecture products that combine hardware and software, bringing intelligent cockpits, software updates over the air, and diversified services such as danger warnings, driver assistance, and autonomous driving, further increasing product added value. From the perspective of the industrial ecosystem, the integration and development of new-generation information technologies require the establishment of an industrial collaborative ecosystem among IoV industries based on win-win relationships and data-sharing mechanisms, maximizing the value of IoV industries with different goals. Automotive manufacturers will collaborate with telecommunications operators, internet platforms, content service providers, and insurance companies to expand the value chain of automotive services, achieving synchronized development of related industries. At the same time, the IoV expands the value chain of automotive services, providing new models for after-sales services such as vehicle maintenance, operation, and early warnings, nurturing a new ecosystem where automotive ownership transitions to sharing. Therefore, the development of the IoV plays a crucial role in enhancing the value of Chinese automotive products and promoting the digital transformation of the automotive industry, bringing significant strategic opportunities for the innovation development of China’s automotive industry, especially for intelligent connected vehicles and new energy vehicles.
Impact on the Organizational Structure of the Information Communication Industry. Currently, the global IoV industry ecosystem is continuously enriching, with the penetration rate of automotive connectivity rising, exceeding 45% for new vehicles equipped with intelligent connected features globally, and expected to approach 60% market scale by 2025. With the deeper integration of new technologies such as 5G and edge computing into intelligent connected vehicles, during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, China’s IoV will enter a new phase of application deployment, bringing new development opportunities for information communication-related companies.
The development of the IoV will provide telecommunications operators and equipment manufacturers with rare opportunities to shift from traditional communication services and products to digital development. Although complete vehicle manufacturers play the role of the primary driving force for the IoV, an increasing number of telecommunications operators and equipment manufacturers are ramping up their investments in IoV businesses, playing increasingly important roles. Firstly, the development of the IoV presents new opportunities for China’s self-controlled cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) wireless communication technology, leading the global industry. Equipment manufacturers such as Huawei, ZTE, and Datang have fully developed and validated C-V2X products, expanding their service capabilities in automotive and transportation vertical industries, creating new value growth spaces. Secondly, the development of the IoV provides telecommunications operators with a “training ground” through real-time data interaction and applications that carry massive information, further honing the foundational service capabilities of China’s 5G communication, cloud computing, and other technologies. Meanwhile, the IoV, as a pioneer in 5G vertical industry applications, has opened a new paradigm for 5G industry applications, with China’s remote-controlled driving, vehicle platooning, automated driving in parks, intelligent public transport, and smart highways already leading the world.
The development of the IoV opens up enormous space for internet companies. For example, Tencent has established a vehicle-cloud integrated network security system based on the construction of smart connected security systems in IoV technology, covering safety governance, protection, monitoring, and operational safety. Tencent has released a “vehicle-cloud integration” strategic plan, a one-stop cloud solution specifically tailored for the smart automotive industry called “Tencent Smart Automotive Cloud,” and a comprehensive “Tencent Integrated Automotive Safety Solution” covering cloud management and terminal security. In terms of infrastructure construction, Tencent has deeply participated in the construction of various pilot areas and demonstration zones for the IoV, as well as smart city pilot cities. In the Tianjin (Xiqing) pilot area, Tencent, in collaboration with ecosystem partners, has built a city-level large-scale interconnected platform and an internet-based vehicle-road collaborative system, supporting the implementation of rich IoV application scenarios. In Chongqing, Tencent has participated in creating a city-level Mobility as a Service (MaaS) application, integrating various transportation tools and travel services. As one of the “smart city” pilot cities, Xiangyang in Hubei has actively explored in-depth applications of the IoV in collaboration with ecosystem partners in the construction of “IoV + smart traffic management,” applying vehicle-road-cloud integrated perception, global optimization, and control to urban traffic governance through the integration and reuse of edge perception and computing devices and central platforms. In terms of industrial ecology, Tencent’s “Smart Connected Open Platform” serves as an engine to build an open platform with low thresholds, openness, evolvability, and reusability, which can serve both B-end industrial ecology and assist developers and users in improving operational, service, and R&D efficiency. It also integrates data and capabilities such as internet maps, high-precision maps, private network maps, and visualization engines to meet the different scenarios of the IoV and “smart city” construction. Tencent has also launched an ecosystem partnership plan based on the smart connected open platform, which includes 14 key IoV and smart city construction enterprises such as Da’an, Hikvision, China Mobile, and GaoHong Zhihui. Through the open network platform, Tencent will actively introduce its advantages and industrial ecology, share open capabilities, accelerate scenario integration, and gradually build an open and integrated IoV industrial ecosystem.
Impact on the Organizational Structure of Public Traffic Management. Firstly, in terms of management methods, current traffic management departments mainly focus on vehicle safety, vehicle monitoring, and accident handling. The emergence of the IoV will profoundly impact road traffic safety management, enhancing the global optimization and control capabilities through fine-grained perception, significantly increasing safety, efficiency, and convenience. Currently, the IoV is advancing the promotion and penetration of information communication technology in road traffic safety to a new stage. IoV services, aimed at achieving “safety” and “efficiency,” are gradually replacing the earlier business models dominated by vehicle manufacturers that provided IoV information services to drivers of their branded vehicles. Through vehicle-road-cloud integrated perception, global optimization, and control, it supports the realization of auxiliary driving applications such as traffic light warnings, blind spot warnings, and advanced autonomous driving applications like autonomous taxis and buses, significantly enhancing the safety of driving and riding. Simultaneously, it promotes public traffic management departments to gradually shift from static management models of road traffic to dynamic control models, effectively improving urban traffic efficiency through applications such as signal timing optimization and green wave passage, significantly reducing vehicle emissions during traffic stagnation and red light waiting periods. Secondly, in terms of industrial organizational structure, cooperation between transportation, automotive, and information communication industries is being strengthened and integrated. For example, the China Highway Society, the China Automotive Engineering Society, and the China Communication Society have collaborated across industries to conduct coordinated cooperation and joint efforts in important areas such as smart highways, intelligent connected vehicles, and C-V2X vehicle-to-vehicle/vehicle-to-road communication, forming specific work plans and development paths for unified actions in technology development paths, R&D of common key technologies, compilation of group standards, engineering demonstrations, and collaborative industrialization construction, and establishing a working group for coordinated autonomous driving actions to promote the implementation of relevant action plans.
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Characteristics of Changes in the Organizational Structure of the IoV Industry
Integration of Cross-Industry Cooperation. Cross-industry cooperation in the IoV has become a consensus for development across various industries, clarifying role positioning, supply-demand relationships, and cooperation divisions from a multi-dimensional perspective of the industrial ecosystem. Driven by new technologies such as wireless communication, big data, and artificial intelligence, the IoV industry achieves integrated innovative development through applications like intelligent connected vehicles and smart transportation. In terms of technology chain collaboration, the information communication industry has jointly conducted research on IoV application scenarios with the automotive and transportation industries, forming a consensus on the “vehicle-road-cloud-network-map” technical architecture and C-V2X technology development roadmap, defining application requirements, and gradually improving the Chinese standard system to meet the end-to-end protocol stack interoperability of C-V2X. In terms of industrial chain collaboration, companies like Datang GaoHong and Huawei are vigorously developing C-V2X vehicle-grade communication modules with independent intellectual property rights, launching a series of mass-produced vehicle-mounted terminal products supporting GAC, SAIC, FAW Hongqi, NIO, and others to release mass-produced vehicles equipped with C-V2X technology. Intelligent transportation companies like Wanji, Qianfang Technology, and Hikvision have launched C-V2X roadside solutions. Tencent and Xidi have collaborated with Changsha public transport and traffic police, deploying over 2,000 connected smart buses to realize functions such as precise guidance and bus signal priority; Baidu and Huizhi have collaborated with cities, parks, and mines to promote high-level autonomous driving applications based on C-V2X.
Diversification of Infrastructure Deployment. The new infrastructure of the IoV is characterized by a wide variety and large scale. Relying on existing 4G/5G, fiber optic, and fixed broadband public telecommunication networks, a communication network infrastructure has initially formed that is fully connected, complementary between public and private, and integrates fixed and mobile. Some IoV applications such as information and entertainment and digital connectivity have already achieved large-scale mature development. Meanwhile, new C-V2X direct communication networks and intelligent new infrastructures such as roadside perception and edge computing are being newly built around next-generation applications and services of vehicle-road collaboration and connected autonomous driving. The diversified infrastructure deployment will promote “comprehensive connection of elements, efficient processing of information, and comprehensive perception of states,” constructing a multi-layered hierarchical system architecture of “roadside-edge-area-center,” forming the foundational base for the large-scale development and commercial deployment of the IoV industry.
Multi-Subject Construction and Operation Models. The construction and operation model of the IoV requires collaboration between local construction and operation entities and telecommunications operators, as well as cooperation between infrastructure operation and data operation. The IoV application service system covers numerous scenarios including urban roads, highways, and mining areas, requiring deep integration between local and regional infrastructure construction and operation entities and traditional telecommunications operators, exploring solutions to issues such as the dispersion of IoV construction entities, diversification of operation models, and complexity of value models, achieving closed loops in industrial chains, business loops, and value loops. Furthermore, IoV applications can serve personal users, industry users, and government users, necessitating the introduction of more specialized operational entities from both industry and government sides. We see that the innovation of the IoV construction and operation model relies on pilot projects, requiring the participation of various local and cross-industry entities. On one hand, it is essential to fully stimulate the responsibility and motivation of local state-owned investment platforms, while emphasizing collaboration and division of labor with telecommunications operators, further leveraging the experience advantages of internet companies, automotive, and transportation enterprises to promote the formation of a cooperative model with specialized expertise. On the other hand, various parties in the industry actively construct a comprehensive system of commercial value, industrial value, and social value serving different scenarios and target groups, continuously promoting innovation in business models.
Competitive and Cooperative Nature of the Industrial Ecosystem. From a global development perspective, the IoV industry is in a rapid development phase, with stakeholders such as traffic management departments, telecommunications operators, automotive industries, telecommunications equipment manufacturers, information service providers, and internet operators engaged in a competitive phase, vying for dominance, where cooperation and competition are the current main themes. After more than a decade of development, automotive manufacturers providing IoV services to drivers of their branded vehicles occupy the main market. This is primarily because IoV applications enhance the value positioning of automotive brands and improve the driving experience of their drivers, making the key components of IoV—automotive electronics and IT systems—gradually become the core competitiveness and important profit source of automobiles, leading to heightened attention from manufacturers towards the development of the IoV. However, it is also important to note that the IoV business platforms of vehicle manufacturers are mainly limited to their own brands and associated brands, and their data has not been shared with other related industries. As the technologies and business models of the IoV evolve, telecommunications operators are playing an increasingly important role. Telecommunications operators leverage their network and cloud computing platform advantages to become coordinators of business processes related to the IoV and connectors of interests, linking fragmented information islands and increasing their data and information-based consumption demands, thereby enhancing their own business profitability. Public traffic management departments are collaborating with multiple parties to promote the construction of road traffic safety measures. Currently, public traffic management departments are promoting comprehensive cooperation with the communication and automotive industries from a safety perspective, actively advancing the intelligent and information-based traffic management, and promoting vehicle-road collaboration and interactive development. Insurance companies, as a new driving force entering the IoV, have pioneered new business models. Insurance companies utilize IoV technology to identify new vehicle risk factors, making risks real and transparent, changing traditional vehicle insurance pricing models, and using technology to prevent and identify fraudulent claims, thereby reducing claims. Although insurance IoV services have started late, the openness and competition of the industry chain, coupled with their user-facing services, have led to rapid development and strong driving forces, becoming an important force in promoting the after-market of the IoV.
Coordination of Regulatory Agencies. The IoV requires inter-departmental coordination as well as inter-provincial collaboration among regulatory bodies. Meanwhile, IoV management measures need to emphasize integration and coordination both within and between government and industry sides. The cross-field characteristics of the IoV industry are prominent, and its development faces a complex situation involving new technologies and a wide range of industries, necessitating enhanced communication and coordination among multiple industry regulatory departments. In 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology took the lead in forming a national manufacturing powerhouse construction leadership group’s special committee for IoV industry development involving 20 departments, periodically soliciting key issues requiring cross-departmental coordination from the industry, coordinating solutions from multiple aspects including policy formulation, standard innovation, and testing verification, and promoting continuous improvement of top-level design and legal regulations, subsequently issuing industry policy documents such as the “IoV (Intelligent Connected Vehicles) Industry Development Action Plan,” “New Energy Vehicles Industry Development Plan (2021-2035),” and “Intelligent Vehicles Innovation Development Strategy.” At the same time, industry management departments are actively conducting in-depth research on key issues requiring cross-departmental coordination involved in the industrial development process, strengthening cooperation in formulating industry guidance policies and revising laws and regulations.
The development of the IoV requires inter-organizational collaboration on technical standards, testing, and verification, strengthening communication and docking, promoting integrated standards, and building testing and verification capabilities to effectively drive industrial innovation development and application maturity. Relying on individual enterprises, research units, or industry organizations to work in isolation is insufficient to break the deadlock; cross-industry collaboration is needed to construct a technical standard system and testing and verification capability system that adapt to the development of China’s IoV industry, providing top-level planning for IoV technology and industrial development. Currently, organizations from the information communication, automotive, and transportation industries are jointly promoting intelligent connected vehicle road testing on various roads, including highways, to facilitate the development of demonstration applications. The automotive, intelligent transportation, communication, and road industries are jointly establishing and improving an integrated standard system, compiling and releasing the “National IoV Industry Standard System Construction Guide (Intelligent Connected Vehicles)” and its series of sub-volumes, accelerating the research and formulation of common foundational, key technologies, and urgently needed industry standards. The automotive, intelligent transportation, communication, and traffic management standard committees have signed a cooperative framework agreement on IoV C-V2X standards to jointly promote the development of integrated standards; third-party testing agencies such as the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology and the China Automotive Technology Research Center have built a laboratory C-V2X testing and verification platform, continuously improving the public service capabilities for C-V2X technology testing and verification. Industry organizations such as the IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group and the China Intelligent Connected Vehicle Industry Innovation Alliance have actively collaborated, successively holding demonstration activities for IoV C-V2X interconnectivity applications such as “three crossovers,” “four crossovers,” and “new four crossovers,” actively promoting collaborative R&D and cross-industry integration among enterprises in complete vehicles, chip modules, terminals, security, maps, positioning, and more.
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Evolution Trends of the Organizational Structure of the IoV Industry
The IoV industry will evolve into a complex and intertwined “industrial network.” Currently, various fields such as information communication, automotive, transportation, and public safety are, under the guidance of new-generation information communication technologies, achieving integrated innovative development of the IoV industry ecosystem through intelligent applications. In the future, all aspects of the industrial chain, including technological R&D, product design, intelligent manufacturing, product sales and online updates, smart cockpit services, automotive information services, and operational services for intelligent connected vehicles will be interconnected, gradually linking pre- and post-production services of vehicles, forming a manufacturing and service model for the entire lifecycle of automobiles. Meanwhile, effective links between intelligent connected vehicles and the elements of smart transportation will significantly enhance the safety and convenience of the entire transportation system, greatly improve the efficiency of mobile travel and freight logistics, and effectively reduce road traffic energy consumption and pollution emissions. The integration of intelligent connected vehicles with information communication will continuously promote the digital, intelligent, and electrified development of the automotive industry, empowering the autonomous driving industry. Therefore, through deep integration of the automotive, public transportation, and information communication industries, the entire IoV industry will present a shape of interconnectedness, multi-party integration, and complex intertwining of industrial networks.
Platform Data Focus Will Form Key Hubs for Industrial Integration. The IoV platform is a hub for information data aggregation, relying on IoV service platforms to achieve comprehensive data access, storage analysis, protocol openness, and empowerment services, linking the scattered systems and integrating the data, thereby enabling the emergence of more service objects and supporting more application scenarios. Currently, a consensus has formed around a multi-level platform architecture of “road testing platform—regional platform—central platform,” which is in the process of being advanced. From the roadside platform perspective, the vehicle-mounted On-Board Unit (OBU) will upload location data, vehicle data, etc., in real-time, providing a more reliable data source for micro-level traffic data collection and more reliable data for traffic condition and flow prediction. From the regional platform perspective, due to the ability to timely obtain a large amount of connected data and support from the C-V2X regional platform, both the vehicles themselves and traffic management departments can obtain real-time regional traffic situation information, and combined with traffic situation analysis and judgment, integrated with ITS control measures, achieve more effective regional traffic scheduling, enhancing regional traffic efficiency. From the central platform perspective, with the gradual improvement of road intelligence transformation, continuous increase in vehicle-mounted terminal penetration, and gradual deployment of hierarchical cloud control platforms, various information such as vehicles and other traffic participants, road perceptions, environmental information, and traffic events will converge on the cloud control platform, where collaborative perception, centralized analysis and decision-making, and feedback control will be executed, thus achieving global decision-making and control, enhancing traffic safety and efficiency, and supporting future L4/L5 autonomous driving. In the future, sub-functional platforms of the IoV will evolve into comprehensive service platforms. Some IoV platforms will provide high-precision customized dynamic map generation services and combine them with autonomous driving scenarios, leveraging the platform to achieve interconnectivity and data sharing between various systems, supporting the industrial ecosystem. At the same time, existing mobility service platforms, urban governance platforms, and traffic management platforms will be integrated to build a comprehensive application service platform to promote platform interconnectivity and data sharing, realizing cross-industry integration among the automotive, transportation, and traffic governance and management sectors.
The Industrial Ecosystem Will Exhibit Trends of Multi-Domain Penetration. Currently, from a segmented market perspective, the IoV market extends from passenger vehicles to commercial vehicles, internet applications, automotive services, and insurance industries. From the service form perspective, IoV services are penetrating into vehicle owners’ lives through various means, transitioning from aftermarket to pre-installation, from inside to outside the vehicle, and will help improve driving safety indices through cloud technologies and active safety systems. From the service entity perspective, high-quality audio, video, vehicle services, and life service partners will continuously enter the market, promoting innovation in the pre-installation and aftermarket collaborative ecosystem. Various mapping and navigation companies are continuously entering the market and competing for strength, with some powerful navigation enterprises gradually moving into the intelligent connected vehicle and intelligent cockpit direction, extending towards autonomous driving. Chip manufacturers, equipment manufacturers, solution designers, and capability providers will all enter the IoV market, joining hands to create intelligent products aimed at autonomous driving. The three major telecommunications operators, leveraging their development scale, capital strength, and full coverage of mobile data, will pave a broader path for the development of the IoV. From a technology development perspective, with the advancement of 5G commercialization and the maturity of autonomous driving technologies, the IoV ecosystem will undergo fundamental changes. The autonomous driving industry involves numerous fields and requires the construction of a complete ecological chain, which is difficult for a single company to achieve. Internet companies like Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba, telecommunications operators, equipment manufacturers, and high-tech companies are increasingly investing in typical scenarios of autonomous driving such as Robotaxi, Robobus, last-mile connections, automated cruising, as well as logistics in trunk lines, branch lines, and terminals, and in closed parks (mines, ports, airports, tourist attractions, schools, etc.), jointly promoting the landing of typical scenarios of passenger and freight autonomous driving, forming a unique, open, inclusive, and integrative new ecosystem for autonomous driving.
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Optimizing the Organizational Structure of the Industry,
Promoting High-Quality Development of the IoV Industry
The integrated innovation of the IoV industry is an important driving force for the high-quality development of information communication, automotive, transportation, and management industries. The “China model” of integrated innovation development across the entire chain and field of the IoV, driven by C-V2X technology and industry development, still needs further strengthening of industrial integration, infrastructure collaboration, model innovation, and cross-departmental cooperation. To implement the strategies of becoming a manufacturing powerhouse, a cyber powerhouse, and a transportation powerhouse, it is essential to further leverage the inter-departmental coordination mechanism of the national manufacturing powerhouse construction leadership group’s special committee for IoV industry development, adhere to the development concept of integrating intelligence and connectivity, strengthen cross-industry chain collaborative innovation, and actively promote the IoV industry into a new stage of large-scale development. First, introduce policies and regulations to optimize the environment for industrial integrated innovation development. Jointly conduct trend predictions for the integrated innovation development of the IoV industry across industry regulatory departments, formulate industrial development policies in a timely manner, and improve the legal and regulatory framework, as well as innovative product access and supervision frameworks. Second, promote industrial integration, infrastructure collaboration, model innovation, and cross-departmental cooperation. Looking ahead, there is still a need to further strengthen industrial integration, infrastructure collaboration, model innovation, and cross-departmental cooperation, to create new modes of cross-industry chain integrated development, build new types of cross-industry and cross-regional collaborative infrastructure, and explore the formation of sustainable construction and operation models and value spaces. Third, create integrated innovation carriers to continuously optimize the IoV industry ecosystem. Fully leverage the collaborative innovation role of manufacturing innovation centers, industry organizations, and other carriers, improve the standard system of the IoV industry, enhance public service capabilities for testing and verification, promote gradual technological evolution and breakthroughs, and facilitate collaborative research and industrialization development along the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.
Source: “Academic Frontier” magazine, September 2022 (WeChat has been edited)
Author: He Xia, former chief engineer of the Policy and Economic Research Institute of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology
Original text editor: Bao Yu (intern)
New media editor: Zhang Hongli
Visual: Wang Yang
(Images from the internet)
