Intelligent vehicle demonstration event

Event Description:

This unique partnership project has been developing a number of new vehicle based technologies. The programme has installed technology in a combination of vehicles such as a Smart Car, Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Narrow Boat.

8.00am BT Brindley Place, Birmingham City Centre
Breakfast

8.30am Nick Cox (Head of Science City) for Advantage West Midlands - Science City Overview
8.40am Ian Binks (Regional Manager) BT - Wireless Cities and support for the Intelligent Vehicle Demonstrator Programme

8.50am Tim Luft (Project Manager) Coventry University - The Intelligent Demonstrator Vehicle

9.00am Professor Rex Harris Birmingham University - The Intelligent Narrow Boat

9.15am Live Demo of Intelligent Demonstrator Vehicle and Pro-Mo Media Video

9.45am End of Programme

The Project
The Intelligent Vehicle Demonstrator Programme was funded by Advantage West Midlands under the Science City initiative. The concept was to research and develop ways in which technology could be used to enhance transportation networks within a City Centre environment. Over the past 8 months a number of applications have been built and installed within a car and a narrow boat, these applications support both remote tracking and monitoring whilst are also able to 'push' interactive content to drivers and passengers through a dedicated touch screen.

The Benefits
1) Allow fleet managers to track vehicles remotely (view location, routes, petrol usage etc.)
2) Allow parents to 'live' track online when the school bus will arrive outside the house or to view the location of the nearest taxi through any internet connection.
3) Provide Wireless CCTV for taxi drivers
4) Deliver free vehicle based internet phone calls within a City Centre environment
5) 'Push' interactive content to vehicles (either to support drivers with traffic and parking information or enhance a passenger’s journey through tourist and what's on information)
6) Support local authorities in tracking traffic flows

What is next?
The consortium are seeking to develop a dedicated intelligent city programme able to support over 1000 users in the adoption of such technology and to integrate both tracking services and content push across all city centre public (trains, buses and taxis) and private forms of travel.

The Application
1) Remote, (online) live tracking of Vehicles - overlaid onto Microsoft Virtual Earth maps.
2) Remote tracking of Vehicle journeys, fuel, engine temperatures etc.
3) In- Vehicle touch screen able to support individual email accounts, web cams, Hands Free voice over IP Phone calls, GPS, MP4, Internet Access
4) Location based content 'push' to vehicle touch screens (to include parking information and what's on guides)
Date: 6 June
Venue: BT, Brindleyplace, B1 2BL
Time: 08:00 - 09:45

How to book: Booking essential - please email j.gohil@cad.coventry.ac.uk.