Data engineering for vehicle data in the automotive industry

The centralized collection and processing of this data, for example on a cloud platform, as well as interaction with the vehicle sending the data, are the cornerstones of the revolution currently taking place in the automotive industry. After all, the utilization of this data will determine how companies survive in the market and develop new business models in the future. However, technological challenges have to be met along the way.

To create value with data, you need the appropriate foundation and, above all, competent partners to support you. Data engineering creates a basis for the utilization of automotive data with various fields of action. The collection of information and its transmission must be ensured through meaningful processing. Big data transformation strategies and efficient filters are issues that need to be addressed for a clean and high-quality data stream. Decision makers also need to address data management strategy issues. To optimize storage space and, as a result, optimize costs and performance, a smart data retention strategy must be chosen. Data reproducibility should not be lost and future use cases must be considered with foresight.

Securing the data and protecting the privacy of customers are major challenges for companies and require know-how and processes that ensure anonymization and pseudonymization. In addition, to avoid connections or conclusions leading to particular persons, data sets often have to be split up. Privacy criteria and future use cases must be balanced. Without splitting data up, conclusions about personal data could be drawn. However, techniques of obfuscation must be applied carefully to not jeopardize later potential for analysis.

The central function of data engineering is also the preparation and provision of platforms, services, and data for data analysis by data scientists. Many aspects that require a broad profile of the development service provider. Software service providers must identify and solve obstacles in dealing with automotive data and enable their partners to meet challenges through knowledge transfer.

jambit accompanies and advises companies in automotive data projects securely and with deep expertise. In doing so, we rely on teams with decisive characteristics and skills:

• Domain knowledge in the field of automotive: Proven industry experts with many years of experience in the implementation of automotive projects accompany your challenge.
• Technology expertise: We bring together data engineering, DevOps, and data analysis as well as machine learning.
• State-of-the-art knowledge management: IT never stands still. Our in-house top-of-mind cuture empowers our developers and ensures the necessary certifications in the cloud environment.
• Compliance: Our security standards, certifications and data protection policies are excellent and at the highest level.
• Reliable project experience: From further development and operation of the cloud application to distribution and processing of sensor data and the development of a quality tool to compare and evaluate data measured in the vehicle with those of external data providers – we accompany you with many years of experience.

Our teams include experts in data pipelines and cloud storage via data engineering. At the same time, we have experts in data science, data analysis, and data mining. Together with you, we overcome a wide range of challenges:

• Big data: We ensure the processing of enormous data volumes and their aggregation.
• Realtime analytics: We do not only bring experience in designing and developing complex pipeline architectures, but also support you in the implementation of streaming processes to ensure real-time analyses.
• Architecture expertise: We support architectures from pipelines to microservices.
• Data retention: Databases and data lakes ensure efficient persistence and retention of data in the cloud infrastructure. We advise on the choice of your data retention strategy.
• Infrastructures for data science and data analytics: We provide front-ends for visualization, take over the maintenance of processing clusters, and implement pipeline jobs for e.g. location-based analytics.

Data offers potential for better customer experiences, but also for processes of car manufacturers. For example, data can optimize the quality assurance of route predictions. The visualization of traffic and automotive data also makes it easier for drivers to make decisions. In addition, the analysis and processing of automotive data provide valuable insights for OEMs, suppliers, and service providers. For example, they can draw conclusions about their own customers, their own products, or the traffic infrastructure. In other words, business model development that no longer takes place in the lab, but directly on the road. Enormous costs can also be saved by optimizing quality assurance through predictive maintenance. This involves monitoring the condition of the vehicle or its components in real time to carry out maintenance as cost- and time-efficiently as possible.