SafeSmart: A VANET System for Faster Responses and Increased Safety in Time-Critical Scenarios

An important use case for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) is its application in the warning systems of emergency vehicles (EV). VANET-based vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication can be used to exchange important data and information between traffic lights and EVs, by means of transceivers...

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Published in:IEEE access 2021, Vol.9, p.151590-151606
Main Authors: Duarte, Eduardo Kochenborger, Da Costa, Luis Antonio L. F., Erneberg, Mikael, De Freitas, Edison Pignaton, Bellalta, Boris, Vinel, Alexey
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communication
Communications systems
Emergency vehicles
Emergency warning programs
Mobile ad hoc networks
Roads
Safety
Simulators
Systems design
Time factors
Traffic information
Traffic safety
Traffic signals
Transceivers
Vehicle-to-infrastructure
Vehicular ad hoc networks
Vehicular networks
Veins
Warning systems
wireless networks
wireless transceivers
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Summary:An important use case for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) is its application in the warning systems of emergency vehicles (EV). VANET-based vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication can be used to exchange important data and information between traffic lights and EVs, by means of transceivers at both ends. This communication helps in reducing the risks of accidents and also saves valuable time through an optimized orchestration of the traffic lights. This paper outlines the system design of an EV warning system that makes use of V2I communication. The system has been extensively studied in state-of-the-art simulators, such as SUMO and OMNeT++, in a huge variety of scenarios, where metrics for both time and safety have been collected. The results show that SafeSmart is highly effective in reducing trip times as well as increasing the overall safety of EVs in emergency scenarios.
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3126334