ITU, ISO and IEC will host a series of workshops and discussions, aimed at bringing closer, developers with car manufacturers and discuss possible implementations and standardizations in the development of the Fully Networked Car (FNC).
So far, large amounts of resources have been invested in research and development, but global standards are still missing to allow for deployment on a large scale.
The cars of the future will be able to talk to road systems and to one another, automatically notify emergency services, foresee and avoid collisions, navigate the quickest routes to their destination, identify and even be directed to empty parking spaces, saving time and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
The ITU notes these technologies can be directed to create more efficient traffic flow, improve passengers’ security and safety and contribute to mobile office development.
The event gathers experts and executives from the car industry, ICT community, governments, research and development institutes. Executives include Christoph Huss, Vice President BMW and President of the International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies (FISITA); Juhani Jääskeläinen, European Commission; Karl-Thomas Neumann, former CEO of Continental.
This year, the discussions will concentrate around network requirements for electric cars.
From an ICT perspective, the delegates will debate the move towards next generation networks (NGNs) or IP based managed converged broadband networks, pointing out that networked vehicles are similar to mobile terminals and standards can be met with fixed mobile convergence (FMC) technology.
The Fully Networked Car workshops will consider a large array of new applications and services for different types of communications: vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure, vehicle-to-home, vehicle-to-power-grid and in-vehicle.
