Smart Mobility

What’s been happening in the automotive industry in terms of digitalization and connectivity in recent years – and, frankly, will be happening for years to come – can safely be called a technological disruption. Sure, vehicles have long been able to do much more than just getting you from A to B. Whether on or off the highway, in agriculture or the building sector, tomorrow's vehicles will not only be connected to the internet, but will become an integral part of it.

That digital value chain will come with both benefits and challenges. While it will make fleets more efficient, more customer-focused and safer, it will also require smart solutions like sharing or multimodal transport services for organizing traffic.

Smart Mobility, i.e. using intelligent information and communication technology in transport, traffic and mobile machines, will be a key factor for greater efficiency and safety – and, thus, for improving quality of life by reducing accidents, traffic congestion and emissions.

At our TechTalk on October 22, 2021, you could get an in-depth view of the power of data-based services and Continental’s contribution as one of the leading Tier One suppliers in connected technology.

The program:

In the first session, Gilles Mabire (Head of Business Unit Commercial Vehicles and Services) and Tansu Isik (Head of Strategic Business Development and Global Marketing Tires) introduced you to Continental’s growth area Smart Mobility and gave an overview of our group-wide activities in this field. (Download presentation - pdf (5.78MB))

Please find here our press releases on this topic:
Continental to Handle Tire Service for EV Fleet of Ride-sharing Provider MOIA

Continental and SHARE NOW Denmark Master Real Time Tread Depth Monitoring of Tires

Technological Excellence in Tire Development: Continental Is Celebrating Its 150th Anniversary

Fleet Business 4.0 – Continental Unites Tires Services Portfolio under Conti360° Solutions Banner in Europe

Continental Supplies Tachograph Data Management Solution for Frotcom´s Fleet Management System

Click here for more information regarding Mobility Services of Continenal.

Deep-dive Session on Passenger Cars and Smart Infrastructure

In our first deep-dive session on Passenger Cars and Smart Infrastructure, Science f(r)iction, our colleague Jonathan Bonnet talked about how artificial intelligence can help predict road conditions (Download presentation - pdf (2.02MB)).

Next up was Jean-Yves Le Gall, who presented the Etravel companion, a context-sensitive assistant that enables a seamless service integration to provide the right service at the right time (Download presentation - pdf (16.14MB)).

This first part finished with the Wrong way driver detection & alert system,presented by Jonathan Stone. He talked about how smart road infrastructure can help reduce fatal accidents and provided some interesting use cases (Download presentation - pdf (6.75MB)).

Please find here our press releases and backgrounder on these topics:
eTravel.Companion: Continental Develops Virtual Co-pilot for a Comfortable Journey

Continental Celebrates 150 Years of Innovation and Impact

Science F(r)iction: Why knowing what’s ahead is so important on highways

Deep-dive Session on Trucks and Off-highway Vehicles

After an extended lunch break, we dove deeper into the world of trucks and off-highway vehicles.

In the first session, Tansu Isik gave a glimpse into the digital transformation in tire and vehicle services and how data changes business models and ecosystems in that environment (Download presentation - pdf (22MB)).

Please find here our press releases on this topic:
Continental to Handle Tire Service for EV Fleet of Ride-sharing Provider MOIA

Technological Excellence in Tire Development: Continental Is Celebrating Its 150th Anniversary

Fleet Business 4.0 – Continental Unites Tires Services Portfolio under Conti360° Solutions Banner in Europe

Afterwards, Nick Richardi told us all about how More revenue can be found in field services and the last mile given that not only parcels, but an increasing number of field services are brought to the doorstep (Download presentation - pdf (3.87MB)).

And last, but not least, we talked about what’s next for Off-Highway: Mario Branco gave on overview on Digitalization, Automation and Robotics in agriculture, building and logistics (Download Präsentation - pdf (7.42MB)).

Our TechShow Around the World goes on. Come back and visit our site every now and then to see what further events we have planned for you. Throughout the year, we will continuously provide you with further information.