The concept of inter-vehicular communication to improve road safety is not a new one. Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València have come up with a new 5G radio access system for inter vehicular communication. This cutting edge science project is hoping to make road accidents a thing of the past as they improve the communication between vehicles to ensure that they don’t bump into each other on the go.

The project is a continuation of the METIS project and is internationally funded by the European Commission under Horizon2020. José F. Montserrat, project researcher says that the main novelty of the system is that is allows the continual adjustment of waveforms in such a way that vehicles can communicate with each other, thereby overcoming the hurdle of not having a set station for communication.

The eventual goals of the science project include optimised inter vehicular communication contributing to road safety and lower accident rates. It is just one example of the used of the 5G technology. The hardware consists of three FRGA programmable cards and four antennas. The combination of which will allow the integration of different wave forms into conventional mobile communication systems. A virtual demo on the streets of Madrid is already available.