The 66th edition of the Frankfurt Motor Show has started with more than 210 world premieres, 83 of which just for the cars. This year’s edition is based on the topic of connected mobility and the related automatic driving. Extremely pertinent today given that 25% of the new vehicles is connected to the internet and, according to forecasts, they are expected to become 80% in the next two years. German car-makers are prepared to invest 16-18 billions in this area over the next 3-4 years and the Show 2015 hosts 46 cars able to park or walk the streets without the intervention of the driver.

Supercars keep on surprising, from the Ferrari 488 GTS to the Lamborghini Aventador Superveloce (Super-fast)Roadster, from the virtual concept Vision Gran Turismo of Bugatti to the Porsche 911 that, with its new engine turbo, says goodbye forever to the 6-cylinder aspirated one.

Italian automotive shines with Alfa Romeo Giulia: among the many innovations stand out the rear diffuser for an high aerodynamic efficiency and the moving front splitter; all managed by the electronics that controls the vehicle dynamics.

Among the Germans, Audi debuts with the 5th series of the A4 and the e-tron Quattro concept, a completely electric SUV. BMW brings instead 7 Series with automatic driving systems and a renewed X1, while Mercedes reveals S-Class convertible and the new C-Class Coupé. Then, there are the Opel Astra with new engines and platform and the new Volkswagen Tiguan.

The French aren’t intimidated though and among them stands out particularly Citroen with Cactus M, a 2015 Mehari.

Finally, from the East Kia presents a new Sportage, Suzuki launches the five-door sedan Baleno, Infinity Nissan offers the Q30 and Ssang Yong presents the diesel version of the Tivoli SUV. And Toyota brings the new Prius, the first and longest-running hybrid of large production.

This and much more awaits the general public of the Show!

Bolloré’s Bluecar exceeds French borders and arrives in Indianapolis to be the protagonist of America’s largest electric car-sharing: 50 vehicles x 25 charging stations, figures that will increase.

A success for bylogix, too, that has made the electric and electronic architecture, the innovative digital IPC (Instrument Panel Cluster) and the body computer, taking care, at the same time, of the choice and supply of key components.

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And while someone has just come back from Summer holidays, we’re already working on this Fall’s surprises.

Next October 1st and 2nd bylogix will take part in Meet IoT 2015, a national event on the Internet of Things, aimed at showing the impact that these new technologies have on the market, industry, services and daily life.

The event, hosted at the ToolBox Coworking in Turin, will feature thematic panels, workshops and an exhibition based on five scenarios of practical applications of new technologies: Smart Cities, eHealth and Wellness, Manufacturing, Agrifood, Domotics.

Always keeping up with technology developments, bylogix will analyze the integration of IoT, augmented reality and wearable devices as support to manufacturing.

bylogix will also show what the IoT represents for the future of the automotive industry, every day closer to a connected and autonomous mobility.

According to a research by Business Insider Intelligence by 2020, 75% of vehicles on the road will have hardware and software to connect to the network, with resulting benefits for the market of the services provided through the Internet. Speaking of which, have also a look at our “ICU” in the “Projects” session.

The services that can be offered by connected cars - and accessible through dashboards that are becoming digital platforms every day more - go from safety, to driving-assistance, up to the infotainment. And this last sector, made of streaming music and video and of social networks, will be worth, according to the estimates, 13 billion dollars by 2020.

Ford’s labs in Aachen (Germany) are working on two lighting technologies that will make night driving safer, facilitating the identification of pedestrians, cyclists and animals.

The engineers are developing the “Camera-Based Advanced Front-Lighting” (CBAFL), a system able to automatically widen dipped beams at junctions and roundabouts, thus illuminating areas that are normally excluded. The system is based on GPS data and when these latter are not available, a camera will “read” traffic signs and identify road markings in order to predict curves. The information can also be shared between Ford cars with the same technology.

In pre-development there’s instead the “Spot Lighting”, a system equipped with infrared camera - located in the front of the car - able to detect and track with a light beam the presence of potential dangers at night (persons and large animals on the road), up to 120 m. away. The beams will be issued by two independent LED lights placed next to fog lights. The people/animals’ shapes will also be shown on the infotainment screen, in green or red depending on the level of danger.

Linked to these systems, Ford is also researching on a “Smart GPS” capable of remembering previously driven routes and of anticipating dangerous spots, automatically activating the additional lighting.