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NEC’s Car-2-X Communications System Successfully Verified for Maturity and Interoperability at the ETSI Cooperative Mobility Services Plugtests
Heidelberg & London, January 23, 2012 – NEC Laboratories Europe today announced that its vehicular communication system successfully completed the multi-vendor interoperability tests for
Car-2-X (Car-to-Car and Car-to-Infrastructure) communications system and was verified to be a mature implementation by the ETSI Centre for Testing and Interoperability (ETSI CTI) at the first
ETSI Cooperative Mobility Services PlugtestsTM (*1).
NEC participated in the tests with a vehicular communication system made up of its LinkBird-MX (*2) hardware communication platform and NEC’s C2X-Software Development Kit (*3). The system
has already been successfully evaluated by several car manufacturers and is used in numerous R&D projects and field trials across Europe. The NEC software is also the reference vehicle implementation
of the EU DRIVE C2X project (*4), a major European field operational test (FOT) for Car-2-X communication.
NEC is a leading contributor to the GeoNetworking protocol, an Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) network-layer protocol that provides geographical addressing, routing and forwarding for
vehicular networks. NEC played a key role in developing vehicular networks routing technology and bringing the GeoNetworking protocol from a research idea to a mature standard. This standard is
going to be trialed in large-scale Car-2-X communication FOTs in Europe in the next months.
The tests - held in Helmond, the Netherlands in November 2011 - focused on both GeoNetworking and the ETSI Facilities protocols, which carry ITS-specific information to be used by multiple
applications and systems. They demonstrated the maturity of ETSI communications standards for cooperative vehicles and roadside systems and the interoperability of 14 different vendor
implementations. The multi-vendor interoperability of these protocols is a major step towards further development and deployment of next generation ITS applications, where vehicles and road
infrastructure systems will be able to communicate with each other to improve traffic safety and efficiency.
The event was attended by more than 50 participants including car manufacturers, suppliers, research institutes and associations.
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*1: http://www.etsi.org/WebSite/NewsandEvents/2011_12_ITS_Interop_Helmond.aspx
*2: www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0811/images/1301-01.pdf
*4: http://www.drive-c2x.eu/project.
About NEC Laboratories Europe
NEC Europe Ltd. established NEC Laboratories Europe in 1994. The Laboratories are located in Heidelberg, Germany and Acton, UK. NEC Laboratories are conducting research and development on cutting-edge ICT technologies, in particular Future Internet, next generation fixed and mobile networks, the Internet-of-Things, Intelligent Transportation Systems, multimedia, security and service saving energy and protecting our environment. Special emphasis is placed on solutions meeting the needs of NEC’s European customers. For additional information, please visit the NEC Laboratories Europe home page at: http://www.neclab.eu/
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