On October 31, the IOTA Foundation and API platform HIGH MOBILITY signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate and drive app development for Smart Mobility. The collaboration between these 2 entities will see the integration of IOTA content, blueprints, and tutorials into HIGH MOBILITY’S developer platform.
The announcement of this new initiative was released via Twitter on Wednesday:
IOTA Foundation and HIGH MOBILITY to Drive App Development for Smart Mobility https://t.co/wLVOdQL6VT #IOTA #SmartMobility #HIGHMOBILITY
— IOTA (@iotatoken) October 31, 2018
Moving forward, HIGH MOBILITY will be a key player in the acceleration of IOTA’s technology and play a significant role in the IOTA Foundation’s ecosystem. With IOTA’s open-source technology and HIGH MOBILITY’s real-world applications, the technology will be put to use and should help catalyze both IOTA’s and HIGH MOBILITY’s ecosystem.
What Does HIGH MOBILITY Do?
To better understand the significance of this collaboration, we must first understand what HIGH MOBILITY does as a company and what they are striving to accomplish.
HIGH MOBILITY is a powerful auto API platform that features a comprehensive and standardized API for connected cars. Their API platform offers car makers from around the world a complete package for onboarding, monetizing, and billing applications from developers worldwide.
The company is striving to solve a key challenge present for both car makers and independent app developers. Their driving goal is to effortlessly engage and work with thousands of developers from around the world. They want to see how these independent developers use standardized APIs for seamless prototyping.
HIGH MOBILITY is striving to conquer these problems through community and collaboration, hence the working partnership with the IOTA Foundation.
IOTA and HIGH MOBILITY’s Collaboration
The first project of the collaboration is to develop a blueprint for “smart charging.” This project demonstrates the real-world use case on how developers can build and test apps using the IOTA platform along with HIGH MOBILITY’s standardized connected car API.
With IOTA’s open-source technology, HIGH MOBILITY sees new opportunities that foster innovative applications for ride and car sharing as well as the connection of mobility participants in a peer-to-peer ecosystem.
Alisa Maas, the Head of Mobility and Automotive at the IOTA Foundation, recently said:
Over the last month the Foundation has matured its open and permissionless mobility and automotive ecosystem and an “early adopter movement” has been started. As the industry begins to recognize the huge potential of distributed ledger technology it is essential to establish collaborations that enable permanent innovation and the growth of a multi-player ecosystem.
As well, Maas carried on to explain the amount of interest in IOTA’s cutting edge technology and vehicle data to be used in many applications.
We have seen a lot of interest from developers in combining vehicle data with distributed ledger technologies. With IOTA’s ledger and the team’s vision for future mobility, we will see it being applied by many new services.
Final Thoughts
It appears that the integration of IOTA’s open-source technology into the HIGH MOBILITY platform will bring about many new developments and real-world applications. However, we have heard these types of collaborations and announcements with IOTA before, yet the price remains stagnant.
All we can do is wait and see as this collaboration develops. Both parties have agreed to provide easy-to-understand documentation and webinars for their communities to follow.
The first update is to be shown at the IOTA meetup in Berlin on November 6. If you’re interested in going, you can sign up here.
