AsianScientist (Jan. 27, 2017) – Together with leading automotive semiconductor supplier NXP Semiconductors N.V., Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has launched Singapore’s first Smart Mobility Consortium to focus on testing and developing smart mobility technologies.
The technologies will be tested on the NTU campus, which serves as a living test bed, bringing together 12 industry partners to form the NTU-NXP Smart Mobility Consortium. The industry partners include electronics giant Panasonic, American software multinational Red Hat, automotive system manufacturers Schaeffer and Denso, as well as ST Kinetics, the land systems and speciality vehicles arm of ST Engineering.
To develop innovations in smart mobility, the consortium will harness an international wireless standard for vehicular use known as the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication technology. This standard has also been adopted by the United States and Singapore for use in its transportation system and is an essential part of autonomous vehicle networks.
Dr. Wang Hai, Senior Vice President, Global Technology Innovation at NXP Semiconductors said, “The consortium brings together industry players in V2X adoption to drive innovation within Singapore’s rich network of industry, academia and government support. V2X adoption requires collaboration and we look forward to building the consortium.”
The new consortium will enable more industry partners to test their smart solutions while enjoying the benefits of cost-sharing on the test bed, which is supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board.
Some of the technologies developed in the test bed, such as the automated video analysis and environmental sensors, have other potential beyond mobility and can also be deployed as solutions for Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative.
The NTU-NXP Smart Mobility Test Bed is built using the latest technology from NTU and NXP. It consists of 50 vehicles equipped with a smart on-board unit and 35 roadside units with video cameras mounted on street lamps throughout the university.
Fully deployed since December 2016, the test bed is a campus-wide V2X network, which has an “always on” data center capable of handling live video and V2X data collection. It also has a command center that can monitor NTU’s traffic in real time and broadcast safety information.
Using the test bed, NTU and Panasonic have demonstrated various smart traffic camera technologies, where vehicles and their speed can be detected automatically along roads at NTU. If successful, this smart surveillance technology can identify vehicles which flout traffic laws, warning nearby smart vehicles to be cautious while alerting authorities.
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Source: Nanyang Technological University.
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