Car-to-car & Car-to-X communication
Car 2 Car communication
Technology that would allow cars to talk to each other—to help prevent accidents and improve traffic flow.
Many
high-end cars already come with sensors capable of spotting a vehicle in a
driver’s blind spot, or warning that the car is drifting out of lane. However,
these technologies, which use radar, laser, or video sensors, have a limited
view. Car-to-car communications could provide even more sophisticated earlier
warnings—for example, when a car several vehicles ahead brakes suddenly.
Thanks
to technologies such as Intel’s M2M (Machine-to-Machine), they’ll be able to
share data with other cars on the road and warn drivers of accidents, as well
as figure out alternate routes based on real-time information — which in turn
will help cut down on traffic and increase safety on the road.
Car 2 X Communication
There’s some overlap between car-to-car
and car-to-X technology. BMW prefers car-to-X, as they’re looking into
designing a system that allows cars to communicate with other systems outside
of those in vehicles.
In Germany, the simTD research project (Safe
Intelligent Mobility - test field Germany) is examining the
everyday practicality of Car-to-X communication under the direction of Daimler.
simTD uses wireless technology based on the
conventional WLAN standard and integrates UMTS and GPRS mobile technologies to
enable any vehicle to generate and transmit important information for the
traffic on the road.
This research project is known as PROTON-PLATA (programmable telematics
onboard radio).
The PROTON-PLATA project is researching whether SDR (software
defined radio) is the possible answer — technology which will allow all of
these systems to be implemented in a single hardware unit.
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