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HERE—a mapping, navigation, and location company owned by
Audi, BMW Group, and Daimler, and representatives from a dozen automotive
industry companies—joined efforts to drive a global standard for the way in
which in-vehicle sensor data are transmitted to a location cloud. Participants
also include representatives from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor
Company, General Motors, INRIX, Robert Bosch GmbH, and TomTom. The aim of this effort
is to accelerate the development of automated driving and ensure that results
are available globally.
HERE demonstrated the importance of collaboration to further
the technological aspirations of the industry. As cars become connected to the
Internet, they generate tremendous amounts of data. The ability to share data
across all car makers globally—and protect driver privacy—is essential to
making automated driving a reality.
With a standard data format, modern vehicles can more easily
transmit information about road conditions to the cloud in real time, improving
safety for drivers. The data 
generated would be analogous regardless of vehicle
manufacturer, and could be pooled, processed, and analyzed quickly to create a
detailed live view of traffic conditions. An accident-free future becomes more
likely when many industry players around the world work together to help
drivers get the full picture of the road conditions ahead.
In related news, HERE and the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure
and Environment together are evaluating the deployment of a cellular network-based
C-ITS for improving road safety and reducing congestion in The Netherlands. The
evaluation focuses on a system using standard commercial 3G and 4G/LTE cellular
networks, as well as location cloud technology and data analytics from HERE, to
connect smartphones and other devices, road infrastructure, and traffic management
centers. The system would serve as an efficient low-latency data exchange
mechanism whereby targeted information—an accident or black ice, for example—could
be communicated to the right people at the right time and location. Because the
vast majority of Dutch adults use smartphones and, increasingly, cars and
infrastructure are connecting to the Internet, there is an opportunity to take
advantage of this connectivity to improve road safety and traffic flow in the
next few years. In particular, they will evaluate a road-user messaging system that
enables information to be gathered, processed, and then distributed to the
relevant road users with quality and accuracy and at subsecond delivery rates.
Full article: IEEE
Vehicular Technology Magazine, Volume 11, Number 2, June 2016 |
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