• Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Roadside (V2R) Communication can bring out the following achievements.
• Presence of obstacles on road.
• Emergency Braking of a preceding vehicle.
• Information about Blind Crossing, School proximity, Railway crossing etc.
• Entries to Highways.
• High Speed Internet Access.
• Electronic Toll Collection.
• Parking Space locater in Cities.
• Nearest Petrol Pump, Workshop etc.
The CAR-TO-CAR system shall provide the following top level features:.
• Automatic fast data transmission between vehicles and between vehicles and road side units.
• Transmission of traffic information, hazard warnings and entertainment data.
• Support of ad hoc CAR-TO-CAR Communications without need of a pre-installed network infrastructure.
• The CAR-TO-CAR system is based on short range Wireless LAN technology and free of transmission costs.
Overview of Smart Vehicle.
• EDR .
- used in vehicles to register all important parameters such as velocity, acceleration, etc. especially during abnormal situations, such as accidents.
- This data is used for reconstruction.
• Forward radar.
- Used to detect any forward obstacles as far as 200 meters .
• Positioning System.
- Used to locate vehicles.
- Accuracy can be improved by knowledge of road topology.
- Computing platform-.
- Inputs from various components is used to generate useful information.
Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET).
• A Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network, or VANET is a technology that uses moving vehicles as nodes in a network to create a mobile network. VANET turns every participating vehicle into a wireless router or node, allowing vehicles approximately 100 to 300 meters of each other to connect and, in turn, create a network with a wide range. .
• As vehicles fall out of the signal range and drop out of the network, other vehicles can join in, connecting vehicles to one another so that a mobile Internet is created.