Microsoft connects the Nissan and Renault cars to Azure cloud

2016: Cooperation of Microsoft with Renault Nissan

On September 26, 2016 the Microsoft corporation announced cloud cooperation with automobile alliance Renault Nissan. Within long-term partnership of the machine of the specified brands will be connected to Azure cloud.

Based on cloud infrastructure of Microsoft services of advanced navigation, diagnostic service and a wireless software update of vehicles will be created.

Microsoft announced cloud partnership with alliance Renault Nissan

In particular, development of technologies of automatic payment of the parking or driving through paid roads is planned and also the functions allowing drivers to predict consumption of fuel on the constructed routes and far off to check operability of these or those systems.

Besides, owners of several Renault and Nissan models will be able to synchronize settings and data (for example, the saved routes and sights on the card) between cars.

Development of the corporate user interfaces Renault and Nissan for the information and entertaining systems will become one more result of cooperation.

The car becomes more and more integrated into the Internet, smart and personalized. Partnership with Microsoft will allow us to accelerate development of the accompanying key technologies and also will help to create new technologies which could not be provided earlier — the senior vice president for new Renault Nissan technologies Ogi Redzic said.

It is supposed that the first "smart" Renault and Nissan cars connected to a cloud of Microsoft will be available for sale in 2018, and in two years partners promise to produce more than 10 models of the machines equipped with technologies of pilotless management.

The president of Microsoft International Jean-Philippe Courtois noted that the union with Renault Nissan became for Microsoft the first long-term cooperation with car makers.^[1]

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