ABI's new white paper titled 54 Technology Trends to Watch in 2020, research analysts have spotted 35 trends that will shape the technology market and 19 others that, although attracting huge amounts of speculation and commentary, look less likely to move the needle over the next twelve months.
According to the research paper, the year 2020 will see millions of connected cars deployed that both contribute data to these ingestion platforms and take advantage of the services that they enable.
Under Smart Mobility abd Automotive section, the study forsees the advent of more cooperative forms of mobility. Connected cars will be the major driver of the new form of mobility that will share data messages about road and traffic conditions to allow other connected vehicles to anticipate hazards and improve traffic flow.
"The first phase will take the form of low-bandwidth, high-latency communication via the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network between connected cars and data ingestion platforms to enable applications like ice and oil hazard warnings and lane-level traffic assistance," the research said.Besides, the year 2020 will also see the first large-scale deployment of 802.11p V2X technology on the Volkswagen Golf in Europe the report underlined. Volkswagen typically ships in volumes of 450,000+ units of Golf every year. "This will enable low-bandwidth and low-latency broadcast communications between a growing number of connected cars to enable safety-critical collision avoidance," it added.
Even though the bike share market crashed in 2018, the research projects an increase in different micro-mobility transportation methods this year, the research said. "The crash from China’s large market players, Mobike, Obike, and Ofo, encouraged European and American-based service providers to ratify their market models so that they were not distributing at an aggressive rate," the whitepaper mentioned.
Micro-mobility methods of transportations, such as e-bikes and scooters, are now being marketed in the European and North American markets especially, and are proving quite successful as providers plan to increase their fleet sizes.
"In 2020, we will see the improved micro-mobility market with increasingly different modes of transportation being introduced to the market, though the shared bike will still lead," the research added.
