Challenges to data sharing of electric vehicles: Alleviating privacy concerns with edge computing

Overview

The Australian Government has released Australia’s first National Electric Vehicle Strategy to increase the uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) in Australia (Australian Government, 2023), which has the potential to reduce carbon emissions substantially, given that electricity is produced from renewable energy sources (Degirmenci & Breitner, 2017).

Despite environmental benefits like reduced carbon emissions, EV owners become increasingly concerned about their privacy due to enhanced EV connectivity and increased personal data sharing through EV digital services. Edge computing, where data is processed at the edge of the network where most data is generated (Shi et al., 2016), provides various benefits such as improved privacy and security (reducing the need to transmit sensitive information over networks by processing data locally), bandwidth and reliability, low latency and real-time communication, and mobility.

In this project, we analyse the adoption of edge computing by EV owners to alleviate privacy concerns for personal data sharing through EV digital services, and we further investigate the dynamic behaviour of energy systems changed through integrated edge computing in EVs.

References

• Australian Government. (2023). The national electric vehicle strategy. Retrieved from https://www.dcceew.gov.au/energy/transport/national-electric-vehicle-strategy
• Degirmenci, K., & Breitner, M. H. (2017). Consumer purchase intentions for electric vehicles: Is green more important than price and range? Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 51, 250-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2017.01.001
• Shi, W., Cao, J., Zhang, Q., Li, Y., & Xu, L. (2016). Edge computing: Vision and challenges. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 3(5), 637-646. https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2016.2579198

Start date

15 November, 2024

End date

15 February, 2025

Location

QUT Gardens Point Campus, Y Block

Keywords

• Electric vehicles
• Data sharing
• Privacy concerns
• Edge computing

Contact

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