Open Networking Summit Europe 2018

Self-driving cars are bringing the cloud to the most mundane of locations – the city parking lot. But this brings density and network congestion challenges as these cars demand access to mobile networks to receive updates. In addition, low latency IoT applications and devices in the vicinity could demand access to these parked cars’ idle processing power.

This presentation will cover how open APIs, Open RAN solutions, CBRS, and small cells combine to enable disaggregation and virtualization at the network edge, enabling new use cases such as driver assistance services (self-parking, etc.). Ultimately, the influx of local processing power and real-time data from self-driving cars will provide operators, developers, and even car owners, an opportunity to monetize the new data centers that will populate smart parking lots.