NTT today announced its connected cars agreement with Japanese automobile major Toyota.
Toyota and NTT will conduct a field trial in 2018 to assess services in the connected car field.
Toyota and the NTT Group will carry out joint research and development of technologies necessary for solving various issues facing society, including traffic accidents and congestion, and for providing customers with new mobility services, aimed at realizing a sustainable Smart Mobility Society in the future at global level.
NTT Communications will establish next-generation ICT infrastructure for the IoT by leveraging its ICT services including Tier 1 IP backbone, VPN and data centers.
NTT Docomo, building on its role in leading standardization efforts for 5G mobile communications system, will promote 5G standardization for automotive vehicle use and lead the way in 5G mobile communication system trial.
NTT will conduct R&D on edge computing technology and promote international standardization. It will carry out R&D on driving advice and voice interaction technologies, making use of know-how from the NTT Group AI technology corevo.
Based on its advanced analytics capability and experiences in supporting the social infrastructure in Japan, NTT DATA will develop technologies for building platform to realize collection, accumulation, and analysis of huge amounts of vehicle information.
