Digital Gate: Automotive Gateway to Automation Platforms

Technology is evolving aggressively everyday around us in different domains. In addition, IoT is being involved in different fields to facilitate people's daily life routines with the help of trigger-action platforms (such as Zapier, IFTTT, Integromat, etc.). These platforms help end-users create a set of workflows that integrate various devices. On the other hand, the proliferation of sensors mounted on vehicles nowadays produced huge data from cars, yet not fully utilized. Recently vehicles' industry incorporated more technologies to increase connectivity, thus increasing the level of comfort and luxury. This paper explores and presents the Digital Gate system and its advantages. Digital Gate system aims to connect the vehicle's network (including CAN, Flexray, Ethernet, etc.) to cloud computation platforms as well as to the automation platforms and vice versa. Moreover, Digital Gate system provides the capability of creating proof of concepts (POCs) and prototypes for automotive developers. Also, it facilitates and accelerate the development cycle.