Performance Study in Autonomous and Connected Vehicles a Industry 4.0 Issue

Industry 4.0 represents an opportunity. The term 4.0 is used to specify the current industrial revolution, not-only from the technological point of view but also from the economical, sociological and strategical point of view. Indeed, this revolution involves different sectors: from manufacturing to healthcare. Its disruptive diffusion is due to several enabling technologies, such as Internet of Things (or Internet of Everything or Industrial Internet of Things), and, as said, it is a vision rather than a technological step forward. In this evolutionary process, the Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) represent the perfect connection between technology and society world, an issue that stands actually in the center of Industry 4.0. This article intends to extend a previous work of the authors, in which a new and non-conventional approach to manage the great amount of data that is generated by the CAVs has been proposed. In particular, the validity of the approach will be demonstrated by means of performance indices specifically defined for this case study.