(MENAFN- Gulf Times) The Qatar Mobility Innovations Centre (QMIC) has successfully participated in this year's Co-operative Mobility Services (CMS) Interoperability Testing event, for the fourth consecutive year.
The event was organised by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), in partnership with ERTICO-ITS Europe, in March hosted by TASS International in Helmond, the Netherlands.
Nearly 100 experts from over 40 organisations from all over the world, came together to test the interoperability of the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) systems known also as Connected Vehicles. Connected Vehicles will change intelligent transportation as we know it by enabling wireless communication among vehicles and infrastructure in a seamless manner and using a common standard or language.
This will enable the realisation of next generation Road Safety Systems and is considered a key enabler for future autonomous and self-driving vehicles. Studies by the US Department of Transportation show that Connected Vehicles, if fully implemented, could mitigate up to 80% of road accidents. In the past, the main focus has been on how to survive accidents; Connected Vehicles aims to avoid them completely, as well as enhancing our daily driving experience, as a whole.
Dr Adnan Abu-Dayya, chief executive officer, QMIC, said, "Connected Vehicle (V2X) technologies represent a key element of QMIC's leading and integrated road safety innovations portfolio. It nicely complements our leading Masarak traffic and telematics platform and our Salamtek distracted driving solutions. Our successful participation in the recent plugtests event solidifies our regional leadership position in this emerging area."
The QMIC team was led by Dr Hamid Menouar, product manager of the Connected Vehicle programme and R&D expert represented QMIC in this event. QMIC's Connected Vehicles platform has been successfully tested against platforms of other international organisations who participated in the event which helps QMIC to put its platform at a competitive international position. In addition, this intensive testing also provides an early chance to validate the conformance against the first release of the ETSI TC ITS standards.
The ETSI TC ITS standards have matured significantly allowing more complex features to be tested in this year CMS Plugtests. To demonstrate the level of progress and maturity of standards, the total number of planned test cases reached 340 this year compared to 49 test cases last year. There was also a notable growth in participants this year.
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