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03 Oct 2013

Cambridge Wireless expansion continues with the proposal of new Automotive SIG

The global automotive industry has many challenges and opportunities within wireless, such as electric vehicles, smart cities, in car communications, autonomous cars, etc. These challenges and opportunities aren’t being addressed by the traditional automotive industry on its own. Smart phones technologies are now bringing more applications into the car, such as entertainment, navigation and traffic information. Internet giants such as Google are investing into autonomous cars, insurance companies want to measure driver behaviour. The list goes on...

The point is, does the UK industry grasp the nettle, or will other countries use our ideas and capitalise on these opportunities?

An Automotive Special Interest Group will give focus to the specific challenges and opportunities.  The data above is provided to demonstrate that the group will have a fertile ground from which to pick its participants locally, but Cambridge Wireless now has sufficient momentum and gravitas to also reach out nationally and internationally.

Why Cambridge Wireless?

From a UK perspective Cambridge Wireless is uniquely positioned to bring together the UK industry.  Not only does the East of England have world class innovators in the wireless industry, it is also a hotbed of automotive industry:

  • The share of the automotive industry from total GDP is 18% of all manufacturing (7.2% is the national figure).  
  • There are about 600 SMEs, employing 30,000 people
  • There are 22 Large enterprises, employing 28,000 people.
  • 5 OEMs (eg. Nissan, Ford, GM).
  • 8 out of 24 UK automotive R&D technologies centres are based here.
  • 4 universities and academic institutions have degree programmes for automotive sector (Cambridge, Cranfield, Herts, Anglia Ruskin)
  • 3 in-house research centres (Nissan, Ford, Visteon).

If you are interested in being involved in the materialisation of any of this SIG, and would like to attend an exploratory meeting (date to be decided), please contact Laura at [email protected]

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