Showcasing the Future: Soracom and Toyota Motor Corporation's Latest Solution for the Connected Car Ecosystem

Happy Hump Day, readers.

We’ve got a brand-new announcement to discuss. It comes to us from Soracom, Inc.

Soracom is an oft-featured name here on IoT Evolution World. As a trusted provider of advanced IoT connectivity solutions, Soracom’s global interconnectivity-focused products and services are relied upon for handling just about every challenge spawned by the Internet of Things. Currently a partner to 20,000+ startups, SMBs and other enterprises across 160 countries, Soracom’s platform makes operating and scaling IoT deployments exceptionally simple.

Highlights from our past coverage of Soracom includes:

• An expansion of its partnership web (i.e. featuring Sony Semiconductor Israel, Skylo, Kigen, Quectel, Murata, Couchbase, and Suzuki)
• Joining both the Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC) and the AWS ISV Accelerate Program
• Soracom’s Plan-US for IoT (in partnership with UScellular) and its Plan X3-EU cellular IoT data bundle, making even more accessible for domestic and international customers, alike
• Achieving Visionary status, courtesy of a Gartner 2023 evaluation

Check out other Soracom-centric stories here.

Additionally, we saw Soracom announce earlier this month its new global strategy for the connected car industry.

“By addressing challenges related to connectivity, flexibility and cloud management,” as Kenta Yasukawa, Ph.D, CTO and co-founder of Soracom, explained at the time, “and by working together with manufacturers and other like-minded AECC members, we can build a simple, secure, and scalable cloud highway for connected cars.”

That leads us to today’s announcement:

Building further on its aforementioned strategy, Soracom is showcasing a new proof of concept (PoC) — developed as part of its collab with Toyota Motor Corporation — for a next-gen network architecture for connected cars to securely connect with their OEM cloud.

“We are so thrilled to work with Toyota Motor Company on this PoC,” Yasukawa added. “This collaboration represents a major step forward in enabling a seamless, secure, and long-lasting connectivity solution for automotive ecosystems that should help make the next generation of connected cars maintain a secure connection with their OEM cloud backend.”

As we learn more, we’ll of course continue to provide updates.

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