V-Alert: Description and Validation of a Vulnerable Road User Alert System in the Framework of a Smart City

Sensors

Unai Hernandez-Jayo¹  Idoia De-la-Iglesia¹  Jagoba Perez¹  Antonio Puliafito² 

[1] Deusto Institute of Technology (DeustoTech), University of Deusto, Bilbao 48007, Spain;

关键词: vehicular networks;    smart cities;    vulnerable road users;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s150818480

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

V-Alert is a cooperative application to be deployed in the frame of Smart Cities with the aim of reducing the probability of accidents involving Vulnerable Road Users (VRU) and vehicles. The architecture of V-Alert combines short- and long-range communication technologies in order to provide more time to the drivers and VRU to take the appropriate maneuver and avoid a possible collision. The information generated by mobile sensors (vehicles and cyclists) is sent over this heterogeneous communication architecture and processed in a central server, the Drivers Cloud, which is in charge of generating the messages that are shown on the drivers’ and cyclists’ Human Machine Interface (HMI). First of all, V-Alert has been tested in a simulated scenario to check the communications architecture in a complex scenario and, once it was validated, all the elements of V-Alert have been moved to a real scenario to check the application reliability. All the results are shown along the length of this paper.

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