Monday, December 7, 2009

Best Long Term Travel Vehicle

Intelligent Mobility and Digital dividend

things first. Imagine that the European initiative of ' Intelligent Auto can really go forward, after the devastating crisis in the sector. It must go out, in fact, not only with a car more environmentally friendly and possibly zero emission (electric or hydrogen car, for instance). But also with intelligent cars, safe, able to communicate with each other and with road infrastructure able to use the new technologies of communication and radio-electric spectrum, European and global in order to help the driver avoid congestion, to ensure improve the flow of urban traffic safety and efficiency and also in that of large displacements.
I feel that if they occupy almost the only manufacturers and very little, very little , the "lords of Telecommunications". Yet there is a close relationship between the ICT and Intelligent Transport Systems, for a sustainable quality of vision. The ITS systems will increasingly need intelligent solutions and "cooperative" Vecoli-vehicle communication (V2V) and vehicle-infrastructure (V2I or vice versa). Because the cars communicate with each other and with sensors and "warning" on the roadside (in the city and in extra-urban) is expected to use the frequencies from 2010 "free" around 5 GHz. And even for the short-range radar (that could be installed over the next 10 years, in the car more "smart" and luxury, but with prices subsequently destined to collapse) is plan to use frequency bands around 24 GHz or 79 GHz.
in my humble opinion, we did not . For ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) today, it would seem the only solution, but I believe that a more careful reflection on frequencies "low" and more "simple" it is necessary, in light of the digital dividend, or to release shares significant part of the European spectrum, due to the increasing digitization that saves us a lot of VHF-UHF (and for which there would, therefore, technical solutions in the field of transport much easier and affordable low cost).
It means the market of Mobility Smart and Sustainable is enormous, which is socially very relevant, if only for the saving of lives to achieve.
I understand that the digital dividend, at least in Italy, ONCE AGAIN, mostly to make new channels, rather than the provision of wireless broadband, but in Europe it is rather shy! CIO 'E' MORE 'extravagant LAST COMMUNICATION IN THE PRESENCE OF THE COMMITTEE ON intelligent use of release of spectrum from OFF SWITCH TO DIGITAL TV.

Yet globally, the ISO (the house of the standards!) Proceeds with the CALM (Continuous Communications for Vehicles / Communications access for land mobiles) nella logica CONDIVISA che segue:
This family of standards specifies a common architecture, network protocols and communication interface definitions for wired and wireless communications using various access technologies including cellular 2nd generation, cellular 3rd generation, satellite, infra-red, 5 GHz micro-wave, 60 GHz millimetre-wave, and mobile wireless broadband. These and other access technologies that can be incorporated are designed to provide broadcast, unicast and multicast communications between mobile stations, between mobile and fixed stations and between fixed stations in the "Intelligent Transport Systems" (ITS) sector.

In sostanza: la telematica Intelligent Transportation for the future requires a PLURALITY 'of frequencies and radio access solution (only for cars and mica), which requires the use of mobile broadband widely available.
But we do not see this available yet ....

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