Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors NV are building a new real-world test bed for smart cars and traffic systems on the NTU campus. Supported by Singapore’s Economic Development Board, the new NTU-NXP Smart Mobility Test Bed will test and develop new technologies for vehicles to communicate with each other (V2V) and with designated roadside infrastructures (V2I) in a combined V2X (V2V+I) facility. NTU’s campus has a robust internal transportation network involving cars, buses, and electric vehicle prototypes. The smart mobility test bed will involve 100 vehicles and 50 roadside units to research V2X technologies over the next four years.
At the project’s launch last week, a V2X demonstration was held at the campus, where three connected cars were shown to interact directly with one another over a WiFi network and exploit real-time data from each other and the roadside infrastructure. The intelligent V2X system, which is capable of wirelessly collecting and analyzing data from other vehicles and the surrounding smart infrastructure over a distance of up to 1.2 miles (2km), will ultimately be required to enable widespread adoption of fully autonomous driving.
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