When Smart Wearables Meet Intelligent Vehicles: Challenges and Future Directions

IoT has become the largest network worldwide, of which smart wearables and intelligent vehicles constitute essential parts. The integration of smart wearables and intelligent vehicles, although enabling a wide spectrum of promising applications, is difficult to realize due to their intrinsic characteristics, which consequently brings up unprecedented challenges in terms of communication technologies, security, and privacy. Therefore, it is of great necessity to develop such an integrated system. In light of this, in this article, we overview the applications, characteristics, and challenges of developing the integrated system of smart WeVe. Moreover, a feasible hub-centric communication architecture is proposed for WeVe, which can easily be integrated with the existing protocol stack.