Networked cars are on the rise. This was shown by both the CES early January in Las Vegas and the ITS World Congress, the leading trade fair for intelligent transport systems, last October in Detroit. Basically robotic vehicles are already able to handle complex routes today. In a demonstration at AstaZero test site in Sweden Kapsch TrafficCom has tested automated systems for truck platooning. Platooning denotes a vehicle convoy in which only the first vehicle is controlled by a driver. Kapsch provided the V2X equipment that enables communication between vehicles and infrastructure (V2I) and from vehicle to vehicle (V2V).
Potential for freight
Kapsch has recently contributed technology to a test in Sweden, where platooning was tested on site. “Platooning is an exciting second generation application of V2X that shows the potential and versatility of the technology. In the test our V2X module EVK-3300 served as a communication platform in the vehicle,” tells Adam Tengblad, Head of Product Management at Kapsch TrafficCom Sweden. “It utilizes the IEEE 802.11pstandard – a variant of WiFi that is adapted for ad hoc networking – to manage the sensor data and radio signals. The module is an interface in the processing of the data which is needed for automatically driving a vehicle.”
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