HERE to lead vehicle hazard warning pilot in Finland
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The project is the first to implement system in accordance with EU ITS directive
Berlin, Germany - HERE, a leader in mapping, navigation and location services,
has been selected by Finnish traffic agencies to lead a pilot project to enable
vehicles to communicate safety hazards to others on the road.
The pilot, which will start in 2016, intends to assess the capability of current
and emerging mobile network and location cloud technologies in supporting the
timely communication of critical safety information, such as black ice or an
animal on the road, sudden traffic build-up, or an accident.
In this pilot, to test the capability of the proposed technology architecture,
drivers will voluntarily share notifications about safety hazards and changing
road conditions initially via a smartphone. The aim, however, is that this
architecture would later also support low-latency communication, via a cloud, of
data generated by a vehicle's on-board sensors and the surrounding road
infrastructure to other vehicles and smart devices on the road.
According to a recent forecast from automotive technology research firm SBD, by
2020 there will be some 33 million vehicles sold annually with built-in
connectivity, generating more than 163 million terabytes of data each year via
their on-board cameras and sensors. When shared across the road network using
4G/LTE and future 5G network technologies, these data could be utilized by
vehicles to give them an awareness of road conditions beyond the reach of their
sensors, and thus enable the driver or the vehicle itself to better plan driving
maneuvers. 5G technology raises the prospect of road hazard warnings being
communicated via the cloud to relevant vehicles in a fraction of a second.
HERE is tasked by the Finnish Transport Agency (FTA) and Trafi, the Finnish
Transport Safety Agency, to lead the pilot, called Coop, and will work together
with traffic information management service company Infotripla in implementing
it. The project will be the first to implement a road hazard warning messaging
system as described in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Directive
set out by the EU. This particular pilot does not require the deployment of any
additional roadside infrastructure, such as DSRC (Dedicated Short Range
Communications) equipment, although HERE is pursuing an agnostic approach with
its technologies that will allow for connections with other infrastructure if
required.
George Filley, who heads HERE's Digital Transportation Infrastructure program,
said: "With this project, we will explore how technology within our reach today
could make driving safer as cars get connected. There will be enormous amounts
of data generated by a car's on-board sensors that can be collected, analyzed
and shared with others on the road. An important piece of the puzzle is to
figure out how to provide relevant, low-latency information to the right people
at the right time, and that is a problem we believe we can solve.
Alain Dunoyer, Head of the Safe Car division of SBD, the automotive technology
research firm, said: "The technology exists to identify road hazards with
increasing levels of accuracy - it is great to see Finland partnering with a
technology leader like HERE to take the next step of ensuring this information
reaches a broader population of drivers who will benefit from this life-saving
information the most."
The first phase of the pilot will focus on ensuring the technical maturity of
the system. The second phase begins in the first half of 2016 on the E18
highway, the main road between Helsinki and Turku, as well as the Ring I and
Ring III highways in the Greater Helsinki area, with initially up to 1,000
drivers expected to take part. The pilot phase is expected to complete by the
end of 2017.
HERE has been developing location cloud technology for several years, and
currently provides content and services via the cloud - including maps, routing
and real-time traffic information - to automotive and Internet companies as well
as government transportation agencies.
In a related effort, HERE is developing next generation high definition (HD) and
live maps to power a new class of driver experiences globally, including
deployment in highly automated vehicles in 2018. To help accelerate the
deployment of a live map for vehicles, HERE last week published an interface
specification that defines how sensor data gathered by vehicles on the road can
be ingested by a cloud. HERE intends for this interface specification to become
a standardized way for vehicles to send to the cloud the rich variety of data
gathered by their on-board sensors. With a standard interface specification, the
data generated would be analogous regardless of vehicle manufacturer and could
be pooled, processed and analyzed quickly to create an enhanced view of road and
traffic conditions.
For more information on this announcement, see the HERE 360 blog and the FTA
press release.
Media contacts
Email: press(at)here.com
http://company.here.com/en/newsroom/contacts/
About HERE
HERE, a Nokia company, is a leader in navigation, mapping and location
experiences. We build high-definition (HD) maps and combine them with cloud
technology to enable rich, real-time location experiences in a broad range of
connected devices - from smartphones and tablets to wearables and vehicles. To
learn more about us, including our work in the areas of connected and automated
driving, visit http://360.here.com.
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