ReadWrite Labs tracks companies in the Internet of Things sector including smart health, smart homes, digital transformation, mobility, and customer experience. It provides continuously updated landscape maps and insights from experts to track emerging technologies. The document discusses ReadWrite Labs and outlines an agenda covering the connected car ecosystem, landscape philosophy, emerging trends, and takes questions.

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3. ReadWrite Labs tracks tens of thousands of companies
across the IoT economy, including:
• Smart Humans including smart health, smart homes
• Digital Transformation
• Mobility
• Customer X
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About ReadWrite Labs

4. 1. About us
2. Context Setting
3. Landscape Ideology
4. Key Trends
5. Q&A
Agenda

5. About our SME
Liz Slocum

6. Vehicle to Mobile
Vehicle to Vehicle
Vehicle to Cloud
Vehicle to Infrastructure
Defining the Connected Car Ecosystem
Safety
Security
Communications
Entertainment

7. 2. Landscape Philosophy

8. Connected and Autonomous Things Smart Networks
Smart CloudSmart Data
Smart Consumer Smart Enterprise
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Data
Aggregated
data
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@ReadWriteLabs

9. Connected
Cars Q1
2019
DESIGNED BY
READWRITE LABS
SME
LIZ SLOCUM
POWERED BY
SPOKE

10. THINGS

11. SMART NETWORKS

12. SMART DATA

13. SMART CLOUD

14. SMART CONSUMER

15. SMART ENTERPRISE

16. 3. Emerging Trends

17. Landscape Trends: Quick Takes
● Companies like Cargo create new industries within the car
● Trucking Distribution and Logistics are getting digitized
● Consolidation of on-demand services

18. Trend 1: EVs era is here

20. 2018 may have been peak
internal combustion engine
(ICE)
@whatliztweets
● Regulation is coming
● Legacy carmakers focus on EV portfolio and
infrastructure
● Sales of EVs on the rise and its effects on oil
demand

21. While Tesla 3 leads entry level luxury in the US

22. Trend 2: EVs have a global impact

23. China is leading globally into the EV future

24. EV Adoption rates in Norway signals rapid EV adoption

25. California EVs sales: Plug-ins vs. Hybrid

26. EV’s are displacing oil demand
@whatliztweets

27. Trend 3: Emerging Tech Gallium Nitride (GaN) is set
to disrupt the semiconductor industry

28. Source: https://www.phonearena.com

29. GaN is about to overtake silicon
● Power efficiency
○ 13x better performance than Silicon
MOSFET
○ 6x better performance than Silicon
Carbide
● Reduced size - lighter weight
● Lower cost barrier

30. Automotive applications of GaN
● EV Smaller lighter efficient
● AV
○ Sensors, including Lidar
○ Additional computing power
● Wireless charging

31. Q&A