ITS America:New 4G Wireless Report is Released

2011.11.25

(Date:22 November, 2011)

“Fourth Generation Wireless Vehicle and Highway Gateways to the Cloud”
Continues Technology Scan Webinar Series

Washington, D.C. – The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) today announced the release of its latest Connected Vehicle Technical Insight Report entitled Fourth Generation Wireless Vehicle and Highway Gateways to the Cloud.  ITS America will present this report in a webinar led by Dr. Eduardo Esteves, Vice President of R&D and Technology Marketing, QUALCOMM.  The webinar, entitled Fourth Generation Wireless Infrastructure – Long Term Evolution (LTE) Advanced and Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) is Wednesday, December 14, 2011 1 p.m. EST (click here for more information).

Fourth Generation Wireless Vehicle and Highway Gateways to the Cloud examines how next generation wide-area cellular such as 4G will be able to support vehicular applications, and how transportation infrastructure may mesh with wireless networks. Specifically, it  suggests that over the long term, vehicles will serve as 4G gateways that collect data from and manage and collect data from short range wireless sensors and other devices deployed in vehicles and highway infrastructure, such as cellular femto cells,  WiFi, Zig-Bee, Bluetooth or even Dedicated Short Range Communications/Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (DSRC/WAVE). Furthermore, the paper contends that automotive electronics engineers will need to be cognizant of how on-board and off-board application data is treated by these vehicle gateways and by 4G networks, and how innovations such as “traffic shaping” and “vertical roaming” may improve the performance of off-board or “cloud” -based vehicular applications. (Click here to see the report)

About the Technology Scan and Assessment
This report and webinar series is part of the Technology Scan and Assessment project. Under a contract with the USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office, ITS America is conducting a broad, multi-phase research project. Overall, the study will assess emerging, converging and enabling technologies outside the domain of mainstream transportation research. Begun in 2009, the project has completed five Connected Vehicle Technical Insight Reports and webinars on a number of technology issues, and will continue to publish the series into 2012.

The goals of the Technology Scan and Assessment are to establish, or otherwise validate or revise, key assumptions in ITS JPO research and development programs regarding scalability, security, or safety of particular technologies. The Technology Scan and Assessment research series inventories new technology-enabled systems that may need to interface with future connected vehicle core systems utilizing Vehicle-to-Vehicle/Vehicle-to-Infrastructure technology.

The Technology Scan research series covers technologies in within the science base (10 to 30 years perspective), or are in emerging (5 to 10 years), or pacing (3 to 5 years applied on trial basis) categories.  Innovation in the information technology, telecommunications, transportation and energy sectors is assessed, focusing on technologies centered on efficient data and information flow, from acquisition (sensors) and dissemination (wireless), to processing (computing) and management (decision support) systems.

To date, ITS America has produced reports on Computer Vision, Active Ranging Sensors, 4G Wireless and Machine to Machine Communications.  Future topics will include Navigation and Location Aware Technologies.  For 2012, the series will examine of the impact of several innovations in computing that may significantly impact transportation, such as semantic web, sensor crowdsourcing, stream computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

The Technology Assessment series highlights particular risks or uncertainties that are broadly understood to impact a number of sectors, not just transportation.  In Security these include global innovations in computing and design of secure systems, as well as risk management –addressing unique challenges in securing safety-critical systems fashion.  In Energy topics include global innovation in the development of utility “smart grid” and electric vehicle powertrains and support systems, and how they may leverage to improve vehicle safety, mobility and environmental sustainability.  ITS America will publish its report on Electric Vehicles in December 2011.

To learn more about the Technology Scan and Assessment, go to http://www.itsa.org/knowledgecenter/technologyscan or http://www.its.dot.gov/factsheets/technology_scan.htm

 

* “This article has been brought to you as part of the cooperation between ITS America and ITS Japan.”