Adelaide based Cohda Wireless V2X (vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure) communications technology is to be embedded in silicon chips made by u-blox.
Cohda wireless’s technology provides 360 awareness and to detect hidden threats beyond the range of the driver or on-board sensors.
The company’s technology has been used in the US since 2016, and today it claims its hardware-agnostic software applications are the most widely deployed in the industry and used in more than 60 percent of V2X field trials that comply with US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) standards.
It also claims to be the only supplier to have its V2X software incorporated in production vehicles, by General Motors and Volkswagen.
Cohda Wireless chief engineer Fabien Cure said that the partnership with u-blox would give market an advanced V2X solution of particular interest to tier ones, OEMs, and road authority suppliers.
“When we connect vehicles to each other and to roadside infrastructure we are creating an intelligent and integrated road transport system that has the potential to reduce road accidents simply because the technology is capable of things humans aren’t,” he said
Embedded V2X to be standard
“In order to progress vehicle safety, OEMs need to produce vehicles that have embedded V2X wireless communication technology as a standard inclusion.
“Likewise, cities around the world are preparing for the introduction of wide scale cooperative intelligent transport systems.”
The software will be incorporated into the u-blox UBX-P3 chip, billed asproviding full 802.11p functionality for V2X applications, and fully compliant with IEEE WAVE and ETSI V2X requirements.
IEEE 802.11p is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 WiFi standard to add wireless access in vehicular environments. IEEE Wave (wireless access in vehicular environments) comprises the IEEE 1609 family of standards for wireless access in vehicular environments, which rely on 802.11p.
ETSI V2X standards are specified in ETSI EN 302 663, Access layer specification for Intelligent Transport Systems operating in the 5 GHz frequency band
