IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - September 2018 - 3

Notes from the Editor

Consumer Electronics Is
the Driver of Smart Cars
By Saraju P. Mohanty

elcome to the September
2018 issue of IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine.
Since 2016, we have discussed various aspects of smart cities at
length. A smart city can have one or
more components, such as smart transportation, health care, infrastructure,
grid, and governance, depending on its
design and operation budget. Generally
speaking, smart transportation allows citizens to easily select different options for
the lowest cost, shortest distance, or fastest route for the highest level of travel
comfort. Features of smart transportation
include automated driving, effective
traffic management, real-time vehicle
tracking, vehicle safety using automatic
brakes, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, better scheduling of trains and aircraft, and easy payment systems.
Autonomous, driverless, or self-driving vehicles (e.g., cars, trucks, and buses)
are emerging. There is a demand, and
research is in full swing in both industry and academia to make it a reality.
We can define the term autonomous
vehicle (AV ) as a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human input, which
applies to the autonomous car as well.
Depending on the level of autonomy,
AVs can range from level zero to level
five. In level zero, the vehicle is in complete control of a driver; whereas in
level five, the vehicle can perform all

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCE.2018.2835960
Date of publication: 9 August 2018

Similar to other components
of smart cities, the smart
car is made possible by
the use of the Internet
of Things.
safety-critical functions in all environments and scenarios.
Various terms such as autonomous,
driverless, autonomous smart, self-driving smart, smart, and connected cars
are used interchangeably in the existing literature. However, I would differentiate the fact that autonomous
driving, or self-driving, is one aspect of
a smart car. Autonomous cars can be
considered a subset of smart cars, and
smart-car concepts can include other
features, such as energy-consumption
management. The smart car needs to
have many features, including energy
efficiency, security, safety, self-drivability, and connectivity. This issue has
several articles related to key aspects of
the smart car. Similar to other components of smart cities, the smart car is
made possible by the use of the Internet
of Things.

SOCIETY NEWS
IEEE CE BANGALORE MEMBERSHIP
OUTREACH AND THE IEEE CE
SOCIETY STUDENT BRANCH
INAUGURATION

part of India that has held its inaugural event.

IEEE CE HONG KONG CHAPTER
RUNS SUCCESSFUL ONE-DAY
WORKSHOP
Activities during a one-day event covering devices and systems for consumer
health and preventive care, which was
held in Hong Kong by the local IEEE
CE Chapter are discussed.

FEATURE ARTICLES
IS CONSUMER ELECTRONICS IS
REDESIGNING OUR CARS?
This article relates to the image on the
cover of this issue focusing on smart cars.
The challenges of integrated technologies
for sensing, computing, and storage in
autonomous vehicles are reviewed.

ADVANCED DRIVERASSISTANCE SYSTEMS
The smart car theme is discussed and
details are presented of the advanced
driver-assistance systems that are critical
to make smart cars safer.

SPECIAL SECTION
The special section, "Recent Advances
in Consumer Electronics," includes articles that present advances in research
related to audio and video technologies. I would like to thank the guest editors for all the hard work they put into
making this a strong special section,

We take a look at an IEEE CE Society Student Branch in the southern
september 2018

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