Final GeoNet Workshop held in Paris, January 2010

Date: 2/2/2010

Source: www.geonet-project.eu/

The final workshop of the European project, GeoNet, was held in Paris on 29 January 2010. The FP7-funded GeoNet project designed, implemented and tested an IPv6 geonetworking architecture.

The GeoNet project worked closely with other co-operative systems projects, such as the Car-2-Car Communication Consortium (C2C-CC), CVIS and Safespot. It took the basic results from the design work of C2C-CC to the next level, by further improving these specifications and creating a baseline software implementation interfacing with the “IPv6” Internet protocol.

GeoNet aimed to

“implement a reference specification of a geographic addressing and routing protocol with support for IPv6 to be used to deliver safety messages between cars but also between cars and the roadside infrastructure… [and] … to implement and formally test a networking mechanism as a standalone software module which can be incorporated into Cooperative Systems”.

The workshop included a live demonstration of IPv6 geonetworking performed on a fleet of vehicles, as well as talks on:

• Why IPv6 geonetworking is needed for ITS
• System design
• Implementation and testing
•  Use and dissemination.

The proposed next steps are formal standardisation through recognised bodies, such as ETSI and ISO.

ITS Radar International will continue to monitor developments

Keywords: Communications, Cooperative vehicle systems, Geographic information, Standard