802.11p standard and V2X applications on commercial Wi-Fi cards

Abstract

During this project has been implemented the 802.11p standard (access layer). The project has been developed for a Linux environment using conventional Wi-Fi wireless cards. Moreover, it was tested so that it can be used in a professional product sold by the company Telemotive A.G. The 802.11p standard belongs to the next generation of the connected vehicle as well as the future Intelligent Transportation Systems. The main difference between this project and other commercial projects is that we intend to implement de access layer using a conventional and cheap Wi-Fi wireless card, whereas in most of the commercial projects adopts a proprietary approach. Besides, it has been used open source projects to program the implementation in a Linux distribution and we have set the requirements that the device should meet so that it could be use in VX2 real environments. Finally, we have carried out the necessary tests in order to ensure that it could be commercialize. Some of these tests were carried out with a real ITS device provided by the Car2Road consortium in order to check the interoperability of this project with a real infrastructure. As a consequence, this solution was included in a professional product used for automotive solutions and sold by the German company Telemotive A.G. Hence, the product has been upgraded and its technical specifications improved by using cheaper hardware.