Ford, in collaboration with St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in Russia, has launched a three-year project to study the way space robots communicate with Earth stations. The information gathered from the study will be used to improve safety and reduce traffic jams.
Ford hopes to improve cloud-based, vehicle to infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and find ways to transmit urgent messages when experiencing outages.
“We’re analyzing the data to discover which networks are the most robust and trustworthy for certain types of messages, as well as serving as emergency communication options when systems crash in certain specific circumstances,’’ explains Oleg Gusikhin, technical leader in systems analytics for Ford.
“In a crash, for example, a vehicle could have the option to communicate an emergency through a DSRC, LTE or a mesh network based on the type of signal, speed and robustness required to reach emergency responders as quickly as possible.”
Ford hopes to improve cloud-based, vehicle to infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and find ways to transmit urgent messages when experiencing outages.
“We’re analyzing the data to discover which networks are the most robust and trustworthy for certain types of messages, as well as serving as emergency communication options when systems crash in certain specific circumstances,’’ explains Oleg Gusikhin, technical leader in systems analytics for Ford.
“In a crash, for example, a vehicle could have the option to communicate an emergency through a DSRC, LTE or a mesh network based on the type of signal, speed and robustness required to reach emergency responders as quickly as possible.”