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013 Portable Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) Platform

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Name Portable Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) Platform.
[This is a variation on project 'Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) Platform']
Short Description
  • DSRC Wireless system built on an embedded platform containing powerful general purpose processing and a variety of standardised input/output capabilities.
  • Platform might be implemented by chipset and firmware augmentation to the existing mobile-phone and wireless PDA platforms.
  • The vision is to provide a universal portable platform (analogous to the “standardised” PC with suitable accessories which has become a universal platform for the desktop).
What problem is
being solved?
  • Road Safety: approaching vehicle alert; vehicle awareness of pedestrian/cyclist ahead; improved safety for pedestrians with disabilities.
  • OH&S Safety for persons on the ground at an industrial or manufacturing site.
  • Integration with public transport: notification of persons waiting at, for example, bus-stop; integration with fare payment system.
  • Integration of current and future signalling - trade-off of wait-time depending on number of persons waiting at a pedestrian crossing versus traffic conditions .
  • Link to car on approach.
  • Link on approach to home - e.g. visitor alert, turn on the lights.
  • Person movement/monitoring within building or campus (eg doctors/nurses/patients in hospitals and aged care homes).
  • Points of interest / advertising / route information / local navigation.
  • Retail.
Skills Required
  • DSRC wireless channel; possible integration personal electronics  such as phones, PDAs, headphone/earphones.
  • Human/machine interface.
  • Decoding and display device for retrofit to motor vehicles.
  • Information transmission device at roadside.
  • People movement/congestion management.
Stakeholders
  • Readily identifiable stakeholders:
    • RTA.
    • Telco’s.
    • Emergency Services.
    • Police.
    • Automobile manufacturers and after-market.
    • Home automation manufacturers.
    • Mobile phone, PDA, portable navigation device manufacturers.
    • Motoring/transport organisations.
    • The ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) Australia project.
    • NICTA DSRC project.
    • Telematics cluster.
    • Health.
Suggested Collaborators (if known) Stakeholder representatives.
Target and
End Market
  • There is a need from the safety, efficiency and convenience viewpoint.
  • Transport industry (intially road).
  • Could be deployed in other applications such as access control.
  • There may be export potential.
Time Frame
  • Need proof of concept (technical and commercial) - 18? months.
  • Probably tied to vehicle-based DSRC project implementation for applications involving interaction with vehicles and roadside infrastructure.
'Champion' Name: Stuart Cumming
Company: inContact
Relevant Grant(s)
(if known and if applicable)		  
Commercialisation Considerations (if known)  
Key issue / comment
  • The range of technology involved will need a collaborative development team.
  • Suitable size for several showcase projects.  Has many elements some of which could be quick wins.
  • Australia has/had an international reputation for intelligent traffic management systems.
  • A pilot would be more achievable if the area involved could be dedicated and contained .
  • Export potential.
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