On 2 December, the City of Turin (Italy) hosted a live trial of new driver and pedestrian safety technology allowing near-real-time notification of roadway hazards through 5G-Edge networks. This trial is one of a series conducted internationally by a historic public-private collaboration over the next few years, organized by the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) and eight member companies representing leading technology companies from around the globe.

5G transmission speeds and so-called “Edge” servers—locally installed, high-powered computers capable of running Artificial Intelligence programs—open the door to smart city technologies like near real-time traffic management and innumerable other business applications. The connected car concept uses this high-speed and Edge computing technology to communicate with car sensors and pedestrian smartphones, via a user-authorized mobile app—about traffic hazards, like accidents and road construction—to Pedestrian and in-vehicle driver safety and efficient navigation.

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BARCELONA, 24 FEBRUARY 2022 – The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) will present the latest global advancements of ‘Cellular-Vehicle-to-Everything’ (C-V2X) in the journey towards 5G-V2X on 02 March 2022 at GSMA’s Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2022. The 5GAA conference will gather senior executives to bring perspective on how C-V2X revolutionises the driving experience to make mobility smart, safe and sustainable, as C-V2X powered vehicles are now hitting the market in Europe and beyond. Journalists are invited to join our media tour of 5GAA members’ booths to exchange with experts and witness the latest technology developments.

This year, the 5G Automotive Association will be back at the Barcelona edition of the Mobile World Congress to address today’s mobility key challenges.

The association will hold a “Turning Connected and Safe Mobility into Reality” conference on Wednesday 02 March 2022 at 09:00am-12:35pm CET (Theatre 4, Hall 7).

Senior executives from automotive and telecommunications member companies (including China Mobile, Continental, Deutsche Telekom, Harman, Huawei, Intel, Qualcomm, Telefónica, Verizon, ZTE and more) will offer their perspective on C-V2X global market landscape and technology evolution towards 5G-V2X.

A networking lunch is foreseen 12:15-01:00pm CET.

To get prime access to C-V2X industry experts and latest demonstrations of the technology, 5GAA is calling on journalists and industry experts to join the 5GAA tour taking place on 02 March at 02:00-03:00pm.

The onsite tour will explore the evolution of automotive connectivity for the purposes of enhanced road safety, improved traffic efficiency, greener environmental impact and more comfortable driving alongside members such as Anritsu, Deutsche Telekom, Intel, Qualcomm, Rohde & Schwarz and ZTE.

Europe is keen to play a leading role in future developments, in close collaboration with policymakers and road authorities, and 5GAA is uniquely placed to support C-V2X advances as it unites cross-sector players in this field.

To book your seat at the 5GAA conference or networking lunch, please register your interest here. If you are interested in joining the press and industry tour, please send an email to marcom@5gaa.org.

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Advances in communication technologies open up new opportunities and enable new types of services in the automotive area. These include road safety, traffic efficiency and customer services which are not specifically meant for automotive applications. As advanced V2X use cases requiring high reliability and/or high data rate are introduced, technologies such as multi-antenna solutions (e.g. massive MIMO), broadband (e.g. carrier aggregation), and FR2 solutions will be essential for V2X communications, and thus the number of required antennas mounted on vehicles will keep growing.

This study on the ‘Distributed vehicular antennas system’ provides a list of potential implementation options for vehicular-DAS with a brief analysis of impacts to 3GPP specifications and implementation costs. In addition, the potential performance gain of DAS over co-located antennas was verified through simulations, and the evaluation results and analysis were included in eCV2X WI TR.

Read the full report here.

 

The 52^nd edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), one of the most influential technology events in the world, is taking place in Las Vegas from the 5^th to the 8^{th of} January 2022. The event gathers more than 1900 leading companies and hundreds of thought leaders from around the world to showcase the latest technology developments in many different sectors.

The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) is glad to announce that its members Continental, Hexagon, Qualcomm, Rohde & Schwarz, Samsung, and TÜV Rhineland will participate in the event to showcase the latest C-V2X technology deployments. At their booth, the audience will experience how C-V2X will shape the next generation of mobility by making transport safer and more efficient.

Check out our map below to overview 5GAA’s members’ activities at CES Las Vegas 2022.
You can download the brochure here.

The 5G Automotive Association is glad to announce its partnership with IMT 2020(5G)Promotion Group’s  2021 C-V2X “four-span” (Shanghai, Suzhou and Wu-Xi) demonstration event taking place 19-22 October 2021. The event showcases an array of Cellular-Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) demonstrations in Shanghai, Suzhou and Wuxi in China.

The demonstration fully implemented  C-V2X technology based on the domestic IoT standard system. The event supports urban smart transportation vehicle-road collaborative applications, promote the establishment of efficient and safe urban smart transportation. The pilot application practice achieved “cross-chip modules, cross-terminals, cross-vehicles, and cross-safety platforms”interconnection, and 5G empowered intelligent driving.

Demonstrations will feature 5GAA members such as Huawei (Lu Lei, V2V & V2I use cases) in Shanghai and China Mobile (Li Yuan, use cases for efficiency improvement scenarios such as congestion reminders based on infrastructure, intelligent network cloud & edge computing platforms) in Suzhou.

The event is organized in collaboration with China Industry Innovation Alliance for the Intelligent and Connected Vehicles, China Society of Automotive Engineers, China ITS  Industry Alliance, China Communications Standards Association, National Technical Committee of Auto Standardization, Innovator (Suzhou) Digital Transportation Industry Investment Co., Ltd and Shanghai International Automobile City Group Co.Ltd and in partnership with 5GAA and German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) China Office.

More information on the demonstrations is available below.

 

The evolution of driving automation technology is gradually reducing our dependence on human drivers. Tele-operated Driving (ToD) technology separates drivers or driving automation systems from the physical vehicle, effectively operating it from a remote location. ToD thus enables shared remote assistance or remote driving services from a central location, which has the benefit of reducing labour costs (fewer drivers), while improving safety and comfort for the drivers.

This 5GAA white paper describes the technical and business framework, and a visionary roadmap for ToD services. Different ToD types, which are classified according the impact on the operation level of an automated vehicle, are studied under the different environments such as automated vehicle parking areas, or public roads or even using different mobile networks. This white paper is an abstract of the following published 5GAA ToD technical reports, where interested readers can find further technical details and business considerations on ToD services.

Read the full White Paper here.

On 14 December 2021, the European Commission published its proposal to amend the Directive 2010/40/EU on the framework for the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).

5GAA views the proposal as a first step in the right direction to establish a forward-looking regulatory framework for ITS in the context of cooperative, connected and automated mobility.

We commend the consideration given to new technologies for ITS services in the proposal. We also strongly welcome the door opened towards a transition to such newer technologies, among which 5G-V2X, in the future.

5GAA also salutes the proposal’s acknowledgement that Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) future “requirements neither impose nor discriminate in favour of the use of a particular type of technology”, following the Council’s decision to object to the C-ITS delegated act in 2019.

We regret, however, that the proposal falls short of enshrining technology neutrality among the key principles for specifications and deployment of ITS listed in Annex II.

We also consider that any future mandate for the deployment of ITS services should be subject to a co-decision procedure rather than comitology. In that regard, 5GAA notes the Regulatory Scrutiny Board’s opinion pointing at “significant shortcomings” in the impact assessment report. We believe this is particularly true when it comes to the assessment made on the possible mandatory deployment of Day 1 C-ITS from 2028 onwards.

5GAA stands ready to engage with the European Parliament, and the Council of the European Union as the ordinary legislative procedure starts to suggest improvements to the initial Commission’s proposal.

December 14, 2022 – A group of leading transportation stakeholders filed a request at the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seeking immediate authority to move forward with Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything deployments. Signatories to the filing include automakers Ford, Audi, and Jaguar Land Rover, the Utah and Virginia state departments of transportation, and a number of equipment manufacturers, including 5GAA members Applied Information, Cohda Wireless, Commsignia, Danlaw, HARMAN and Panasonic.

The filing follows last year’s unanimous decision by the FCC concluding that the United States should move forward with C-V2X exclusively.  In that decision, the FCC invited automakers, road operators, and equipment manufacturers to seek rule waivers if interested in deploying C-V2X in the near term.   The FCC reasoned that these waivers would enable a smoother and more rapid deployment of C-V2X while the agency considered final rules for the technology.

“Today’s joint waiver request from leading automakers, state departments of transportation, and equipment manufacturers signifies the collaborative efforts underway to ensure the successful implementation of C-V2X,” stated 5GAA CTO Maxime Flament. “It also demonstrates the strong demand across the transportation industry to immediately deliver C-V2X safety services to American travelers, especially as deployments accelerate in other regions of the world.  On the heels of its recent unanimous decision to move forward with C-V2X, the FCC should quickly grant this waiver request and afford stakeholders the ability to move forward with this state-of-the-art roadway safety technology.”

5GAA shares the latest C-V2X developments at ITS World Congress (Hamburg): “5G will have the most revolutionary impact by reducing accidents and saving millions of lives.”

HAMBURG, 13 October 2021 – 5G-powered vehicles are foreseen to hit the market this year in Europe. More and more advanced vehicle-to-everything (V2X) use cases geared towards enhanced road safety, improved traffic efficiency, greener environmental impact and more comfortable driving are being deployed worldwide on a large scale. The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) and its members showed the latest developments during ITS World Congress in Hamburg.

5G-V2X spearheading the path to automated driving

Today, the 5G-V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) technology already enables fully connected and automated mobility with LTE-V2X technology. Vehicles and infrastructure can exchange relevant information via LTE-V2X through direct communication mode (not requiring network coverage) or mobile network communications mode, creating a real-time connection between all road users.

Many automotive services can be supported by the current global cellular standard LTE-4G, seen as an essential foundation for further progress.  Millions of vehicles on the continent are connected via 4G-LTE already, and industry analysts estimate that over 70% of all new vehicles sold are now 4G equipped. That said, 5G-V2X will enable more advanced connected mobility services and offer a clear path to automated driving – while maintaining service-level interoperability with pre-existing LTE-V2X vehicles.

5GAA will help prepare tomorrow with the ITS Directive revision, advocating a neutral approach on technology. Given the strong momentum in China and in the United-States, Europe needs a future-proof framework to stay in a leading role globally. Indeed, advanced driving is taking shape globally. At the moment, China is the only country that has 5G Cellular-Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) enabled vehicles commercially available on the market. To this date, 14 C-V2X vehicle models are commercialized. In the United States, Ford has committed to deploy C-V2X in all new vehicle models from early 2022. In Europe, 5G-powered vehicles are foreseen to hit the market still this year thanks to BMW.

“When applied to the automotive field, 5G will have the most revolutionary impact by saving millions of lives and reducing accidents on roads”, 5GAA CTO Maxime Flament said. “The combination of long- range and short-range connectivity C-V2X offers, delivers the optimal setup for safety and efficiency of traffic, in addition to improving environmental footprints.” Global deployment of C-V2X technology will have a sustainable impact in the world.

In the next two to three years, 5GAA expects to see mass deployment of C-V2X use cases geared towards improving traffic efficiency and road safety around the world. Vehicle commercialization is not enough however: the whole ecosystem – cars, cloud, map, network, positioning but also the road – needs to be C-V2X friendly. Therefore, 5GAA offers a platform to foster collaboration between top tier automotive, technology and telecommunications companies for them to develop end-to-end connectivity solutions for future mobility and transportation services.

Cover more digital roads via enhanced digital mobility services

At ITS World Congress, the world’s largest and most prominent event focused on smart mobility and the digitalisation of transportation, 5GAA experts and member spokespersons shared their views on how to accelerate deployment of the latest technology innovations and how to ensure future-proof investments. They shared the needs of road operators for their digital infrastructure and of automakers (OEMs) for digital mobility services, and zoomed in on digital roads in urban areas and cooperation models enabling deployment and use of 5G infrastructures for connected and automated mobility.

Furthermore, key members of the 5GAA shared their latest technology developments with a focus on Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), among which:

• A system that warns of accidents between and help protect connected vehicles and cyclists – or other vulnerable road users such as pedelec, scooter riders and pedestrians developed by Continental and Deutsche Telekom. The solution calculates the paths taken by cars and bicycles. If they are likely to cross at the same time, the system warns both road users via mobile communications in real-time. Initial road tests have been successful.
• A Location-as-a-Service algorithm that improves the positioning of road users, in which vehicles exchange data via simulated communication (5G) by Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS. The aim is to warn drivers of a collision with a cyclist, an e-scooter rider of road damage, or to guide a blind person to the right government office or the bus door – for which highly accurate localization is always of fundamental importance.
• A demonstration of a connected e-bike, where Qualcomm (alongside company Spoke) is showcasing a new hardware solution designed to enable vehicles to identify VRUs using C-V2X.

And more. Request the full list of demonstrations on demand at 5GAA@teamlewis.com

Download the press release here.

This document intends to provide an overview of the C-V2X Devices which we understand are already publicly available on the market. This overview is based on publicly available information.

The sources are referenced. 5GAA does not accept any liability for information provided by third parties. 5GAA has not verified whether the information provided by third parties is accurate. 5GAA does not in any way validate the information provided by third parties by including particular devices in this list. This document is only intended to provide an overview, the list of devices is not necessarily complete.

This list does not necessarily include factory-fit telematics/V2X boxes directly under contract with automakers.

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