The Carnet Alliance is an organization that focuses on seamlessly connecting mobile devices to vehicles. It consists of companies in the electronics and automotive industries. The current president of the alliance is Mahfuzur Rahman, director of standards and technology at the Samsung Research Center in the United States. He is responsible for overseeing the IoT Alliance. Representatives of companies such as General Motors, Volkswagen, Daimler, Symbol Citroen Group, Honda, etc.
The digital key specification of the Connected Vehicle Alliance is open to all member companies, among which we are familiar with consumer electronics manufacturers such as Xiaomi, HTC, Apple, Huawei and Samsung.
In addition to Apple, important members of the alliance include Audi, BMW, General Motors, Hyundai, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Samsung and Volkswagen, and Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Continental Automotive, Denso Corporation, Gemalto, NXP Semiconductors. Semiconductors and Qualcomm, etc.
The digital key specification is to create a digital key to use ecology. In simple terms, it is to allow drivers to use smart phones and other devices to lock the car, unlock, start the engine or share the right to access the vehicle.
It is a security system standard that allows car manufacturers to use a trusted service manager to transfer digital keys to smart devices and then use NFC to connect with devices. This technology has a wide range of uses, such as sharing cars, or car rental. Industry, and general users to achieve keyless driving and so on.
Currently, CCC has begun research on the Digital Key 2.0 specification, which will provide standardized authentication protocols between vehicles and smart devices to ensure interoperability between different smart devices and vehicles. The expected completion date of the 2.0 specification is 2019. The first quarter of the year.
In terms of practicality, several car manufacturers such as Audi have already provided digital key services to customers, while other manufacturers such as Volkswagen plan to implement this function in the near future.
At present, the use of mobile phones for brushing bus services or brushing access control cards are being implemented in succession. With the advent of smart cars, we have reason to believe that mobile phones are sooner or later. However, the automotive industry has stricter safety standards. Things will not be so fast.