Air cards on your cars will guide to the future.
In a short future, cars (with their own air cards inside) will be active nodes of the web. This is not science fiction, but what is predicted by the authors of a new project to transform cars in helpful instruments to sort information and connectivity via a combined system that uses GPS and WiFi.
The project, developed by Australian startup Cohda Wireless, is based on a technology called Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC), which transforms the car into a real center of hub connectivity. All thanks to a series of sensors and WiFi air cards equipment, which allow cars to communicate not only among themselves but also to receive real time updates on everything that happens on the roads.
According to the designers of the project, the potential uses are virtually unlimited: the DSRC system would, for example, receive immediate updates on the maps of the area that we go, highlighting the most trafficked. Moreover, with this kind of system, we would have access to numerous content from the web, such as real-time music, web radio, without losing the safety factor.
“This technology essentially provides the ability for vehicles to see around the corner, avoiding the occurrence of danger,” says Alex Grand, professor of the Institute for Telecommunications Research (ITR) at the University of Southern Australia. According to the university team, the system constitutes a real step forward in terms of road safety by communicating with each other via wireless air cards. Can be reported in real time to a car to slowdown, about an accident or any other information that merits the attention of other motorists, allowing also to avoid potential collisions.
Regarding efficiency, according Cohda the system would be able to work even in places not suitable for radio communications, as towns equipped with many obstacles such as buildings or tunnels. Cohda claims a perfect functioning of the system under similar conditions, both in remote areas or even at high speeds with the help of special aircard builded inside cars. These results were compiled from more than 700 tests carried out, divided into 15 categories such situations easily found at the head, carried out between the U.S., Italy and Australia, for a total of over 10 thousand kilometers and more than 100GB of data collected. According to the statement made by the company, once the testing technology should be ready to be deployed on cars from 2012 onwards.
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