The Future of Mobility Promoted by Kyocera

Striving to solve the social issues surrounding mobility

The mobility industry is currently striving to improve efficiency and safety through electrification, autonomous driving, and improved connectivity. However, at the same time as it is realizing that progress, the industry is also coming up against many social issues, such as the need to improve access to transportation for people with mobility difficulties, the continuing frequent occurrence of traffic accidents, labor shortages in the logistics industry, and global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

One trend many believe can solve these problems is CASE (Connected・Autonomous・Share & Services・Electric). However, the current situation is that we still have not seen the ideal advances in this area.

Kyocera aims to realize a clean and sustainable mobility society where everyone can move freely and safely by providing solutions that take advantage of leading-edge material technology and the company's development and manufacturing of various parts and devices.

Connected

One technology that is important for the improvement of transportation safety, efficiency, and sustainability is V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything), in other words, communication technology to connect a vehicle to other vehicles, pedestrians, infrastructure, and other networks. However, this technology requires communication with even higher speeds, lower latency, and stronger security.

Kyocera is increasing vehicle connectivity with the development of communication modules and IoT technologies, and with the development of the components and modules to support these. This technology will enable safer and more efficient driving assistance and enhanced data security.

Autonomous

In order to realize autonomous driving, it is necessary to gain an accurate understanding of the movement of the vehicles and pedestrians in front of the vehicle, and also of the situation of the vehicle itself. It is therefore essential to use cameras and other advanced sensor technology. In addition, having the vehicles and infrastructure collect and analyze information about the surrounding environment in real time will realize safe and efficient driving and orderly traffic.

We will utilize the technological capabilities Kyocera has cultivated to provide solutions for vehicles that are equipped with information recognition and data processing capabilities and aim to contribute to the construction of a safe transportation society.

Shared & Services

In order to make shared mobility services such as car sharing and public transportation more comfortable and convenient while increasing their accessibility and reducing the burden on the environment it is necessary to use highly reliable software and to improve the communication and transportation infrastructure.

We will use communication technology to utilize and process the data from high-performance sensors developed by Kyocera in order to contribute to the realization of MaaS (Mobility as a Service) that offers methods of travel to meet individual needs.

Electric

There are various issues for further progress in the electrification of automobiles. These include range limitations, a lack of charging infrastructure, and also the need to improve battery technology, high costs, and the use of renewable energy. In order to resolve these issues, in addition to technological innovation, it will also be essential to promote carbon-neutral policies and expand charging infrastructure in each country.

Kyocera is developing components and modules for electric vehicles and conducting research on high-performance batteries and systems to manage them. This will contribute to the building of a society that is sustainable and environmentally conscious.

Others

To work towards the realization of a clean and sustainable mobility society where everyone can move freely and safely, Kyocera is also focusing on the manufacturing processes used for the products that support that society. We will maintain the technological capabilities we have to ensure high reliability and will contribute to technological advances and efficiency improvement in those manufacturing processes to improve people's lives and safety.