Cities See Value in V2X Data

hey everybody welcome back to current insights coverage of inter traffic 2022 a big theme that we're hearing about this year is v2x a lot of vendors talking about this technology and despite the relatively low penetration rate in cities vendor say is having a big impact the key here is real -time data and information provided to the cities and also creating kind of useful incentives for the city and also for the road users reducing the congestion so providing priority services of course safety as well. Using roadside units and onboard devices in cars the technology can alert cars to dangers and even prioritize the roads and signals for public transit. A use case that you can see today in Paris. We implemented in 16 traffic light intersections in one bus line to give the priority to the different buses running on it. One of the key learning was the ability to adapt to traffic jam, to different time of bus stop, you know, so we had to comply with this, let's say, this information from the field to give the green line priority at the right time. Of course it's not easy to... a technology like this that includes so many different stakeholders from car manufacturers to road operators and even the telecoms. Collaboration will be key in scaling V2X so could a data platform like this one by Consignia assist with that? So our thought process is really to collect the data the information real time and react on that and fuse that back to the transportation to the car users, the drivers, bikers, pedestrians. Now that V2X benefits are becoming more and more clear to micromobility players and the telecommunication industry, they often come to us that, hey, can we use your software components in our telecommunication environment or on our scooters? And the answer is absolutely yes, we can do that. But it's also graded. They collect a tremendous amount of data through regular technologies, you know, 3G, 4G, 5G. Also, the telecom companies are collecting a lot of data through the cell phones and custom applications running on that, but they are not connected with each other. So they are living in their own private clouds, and our way in in that angle is using the ComSignal central platform to interconnect those. services and exchange the data, do some transformation on the data, extracting useful information and provide that information to these stakeholders as a service. The key point in my opinion is that we have to, you know, to have the consideration of public operator, the city, the people that are running the traffic light intersection and you have to consider the different interests. So, of course, the public... transport operator will be only focused on the speed of the bus but if you can talk also to the city they will be interesting in having the information about travel time having the ability to take into account emergency vehicles so the key point is to have the different views to discuss directly with the different actors let's say in this kind of project so that's a look at another day at inter traffic 2022 For more coverage, follow along on Current Insights.