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<\/p>\nThe engineering and technology company Bosch is at the head of a forthcoming, blockchain-based digital mobility project with backing from the German government, which was demoed live at IAA Mobility 2023 in Munich, Germany.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the event, Bosch, alongside collaborators such as Mobix and Peaq Netowork, revealed a peer-to-peer parking and charging scheme utilizing moveIDs on the Peaq ecosystem. <\/p>\n
MoveIDs act as self-sovereign identities (SSIs) built on the blockchain, permitting autonomous transactions between vehicles and connected infrastructure. The demonstration at IAA Mobility highlighted autonomous transactions between connected devices: a smart car, charging station and signal for parking.<\/p>\n
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Cointelegraph was on the ground in Munich and spoke with Peter Busch, project lead for moveID and product owner for Distributed Ledger Technologies Mobility \u2014 an automotive connectivity thinktank of Bosch \u2014 along with Leonard Dorl\u00f6chter, co-founder of Peaq Network, to better understand how blockchain is helping push forward the future of mobility.<\/p>\n
When asked why mobility was the right sector to begin implementing SSI on a large scale, Dorl\u00f6chter highlighted that \u201cwith mobility especially, there\u2019s a lot of fragmentation.\u201d <\/p>\n
When it comes to mobility, the goal for users is to move from one point to another. This is done via public transport, micro-mobility scooters and car sharing or personal cars, which need parking spots and charging.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are many players involved and always requiring sign-ups with new accounts, new cards, etc. If this is happening on the blockchain, an open ecosystem, then everyone can have a seamless experience and also find the best services, best parking and charging spots.\u201d <\/p>\n
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According to Busch, decentralized identities of items on open blockchain networks are the \u201cmost promising technology:\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDecentralized identity allows you to authenticate and identify devices without having the intermediate or another hyperscalers in the background.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cThis is the ultimate data sovereignty because the user owns their own data and keeps it and controls it,\u201d he said. \u201cIn use cases of charging, you can see only the user and the charging pole in the car make that business \u2014 no other party around it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Busch said one of the main goals and motivations of the project is to standardize the technological integration with other automotive players in Germany and across Europe.<\/p>\n
He also commented that the mobility sector is a great example to big players in the industry and others of how Web3 and decentralization can help with data and privacy compliance\u00a0and the European General Data Protection Regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe EU government is planning to demand that every person in the EU in the future has a decentralized ID.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cWhat we are developing is accessible for anyone who can download it. It will be available to all the citizens and all the businesses who would like to use it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
All of this is part of a larger European Union-funded initiative called Gaia-X, which intends to create a federated, secure data infrastructure for European digital sovereignty and lay the foundations for future smart cities.<\/p>\n
Therefore, Busch stressed the importance of \u201cdesigning systems that people can use easily.\u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cAny citizen in maybe like five to eight years will have this automatically and won\u2019t have to think about it because, as you have your personal ID as a card in your wallet today, it will be digitally or electronically somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Related: <\/em><\/strong>Bosch partners with AI firm for $100M fund to empower Web3 development<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
According to Peaq\u2019s Dorl\u00f6chter, a smart city of the future, as envisioned by these projects, will be a web of \u201cinterconnected things\u201d that need to have an identity and an open system.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we look into the future and think about smart cities, they wouldn\u2019t work and function if they were built on a Web2 platform as we know them today.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cThings become alive by having an identity; it\u2019s their passport,\u201d he said. In the case of the example seen at IAA Mobility, this is smart cars, charging stations and traffic lights. \u201cOnce they have that identity, users can find and identify with them. Then you can really create a smart city.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Internet of Things (IoT) turns into the Economy of Things (EoT) because all of those things have some economic value and that\u2019s the future. The future of AI automation will be economic activity, and machines will do what\u2019s necessary to support society.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Creating an IoT and EoT is similar to nation-building in the digital space. Dorl\u00f6chter concluded by saying that for any of this to happen, the systems need to be \u201copen and decentralized.\u201d <\/p>\n
Most importantly, they need to have an interoperability component that makes it so \u201ceveryone can participate in the earnings.\u201d<\/p>\n