SAFESPOT

Overview

SAFESPOT creates dynamic cooperative networks where the vehicles and the road infrastructure communicate to share information gathered on board and at the roadside to enhance the drivers' perception of the vehicle surroundings. The SAFESPOT Integrated Project developed the Safety Margin Assistant System based on communication among the vehicles and the road infrastructure to detect in advance potentially dangerous situation and extend in space and time drivers awareness of the surroundings. Vehicles, including cars, trucks and motorbikes, and road infrastructures are source and destination of safety relevant information.

Related Projects

CVIS
SEVECOM
COOPERS
COMesafety

Objectives

SAFESPOT

Project Status

Completed (February 2006 – January 2010)

CONTACT

Roberto Brignolo

Centro Ricerche Fiat

Tel : +31 0119080534

Email: Roberto.brignolo@crf.it

Use the infrastructure and the vehicles as sources and destinations of safety-related information and develop an open, flexible and modular architecture and communication platform
Develop the key enabling technologies: ad-hoc dynamic network, accurate relative localisation, dynamic local traffic maps
Develop and test scenario-based applications to evaluate the impacts on road safety
Define a sustainable deployment strategy for cooperative systems for road safety, evaluating also related liability, regulations and standardisation aspects

Inputs

On Board Unit (OBU)

Long Range Radar
VANET router for V2V and V2I communication
Host Vehicle CAN Bus
Camera + Image Processing
Ego-Positioning

Road Side Unit (RSU)

Data acquisition (detection systems)
Roadside Unit (MFO)
Alert System

Data Processing Hub

The applications rely on the data available in the LDM where all safety-relevant information is continuously updated. From a technical viewpoint, both the Application Coordination (Application Manager) and the Application part of the Message Generation (Message Manager) may be considered as a framework integrating several applications. Applications should be able to operate in any road scenario. In the SAFESPOT project timeframe, a number of applications and use cases have been selected and analysed and they will be demonstrated in the experimental phase of the project. SAFESPOT identified two classes of implementation steps depending on the level of intelligence required on board the vehicle. The first is based on V2I-I2V communication with applications mainly running on the infrastructure side. These applications may represent a first step of the future exploitation and aim to cover Static and Dynamic Black Spots (i.e. specific locations where the probability of accidents is higher) in which a RSU is located. The second involves V2V based applications which involve dynamic black spots potentially occurring in any location and require a higher level of intelligence on board.

Assets

Traffic controllers
Existing detection equipment
Data bases of dynamic, planning and configuration data
Traffic control and management centres (all infrastructures shared with the CVIS Integrated Project)

Services

Achievements/Benifits

Increase road safety for all road users
Extend the range, improve the quality and reliability of the safety -related information providing an 'extended co-operative awareness' to all drivers
Support drivers preventively to the proper manoeuvres in the different contexts
Optimise the intervention of vehicle controls with respect to critical situations
Enable the development of new safety applications based on the cooperative approach.
To provide the most efficient recommendation to the driver through the onboard HMI and through road side communication devices like VMS or flashing lights