With BSVI (Bharath Stage 6 – BS6), On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) has become popular among the masses. More and more people have started to recognize and understand the role of electronics in automobiles.
Vehicle diagnostics opens up a plethora of applications in automotive engineering and forms the future of Automotive – Internet of Things “IoT” (also called as Internet of Vehicles “IoV”). As the name suggests diagnostics is about finding the faults in the system, but it does not stop there. With diagnostics, we can read not only fault codes but also other data pertaining to the operation of automobiles. We can also instruct the automobile to perform particular actions.
Below are a few applications that are possible with IoV through vehicle diagnostics: