Connected Vehicles in Smart Cities: Interworking From Inside Vehicles to Outside

There is an urgent need for smart transportation, to enable safer, efficient and more enjoyable journeys, and connected vehicles are a way to realise that. Modern cars feature embedded systems that monitor and manage all the critical sensors and actuators. The vehicle connectivity can be further extended with Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) technology, which allows cars to exchange that collected information and even act on it. In this demo we present our latest simulation environment, that takes advantage of the in-vehicle (e.g, PLC, Ethernet) and inter-vehicle communications (e.g., DSRC and LTE-V) for the exchange of data between cars or infrastructure in a city scale. The simulator is an essential tool for our study in connected vehicle communications.