Author: Ryan Hall

OmniAir Consortium® will host our July Monthly Membership Meetings, July 27 and 28, which will focus on connected and automated vehicles in Taiwan.  OmniAir® has invited two leading industry experts to offer their insights on C-ITS and C-V2X testing and deployment in the island nation.

Men-Feng Wu, President of the Taiwan Telematics Industry Association (TTIA), and Dr. Ronald Wu, Executive Assistant to the Chairman of HwaCom Systems Inc., which is leading the C-ITS Smart Road project in Danhai.

The presentations will include a brief introduction to TTIA and the development of the telematics industry in Taiwan. Update on Traffic Controller to Roadside (TCROS) standards and an overview of the Danhai field test site in the Tamsui District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. 

Please join us at 9:00 pm EDT on Wednesday, July 27, or 1:00 pm EDT on Thursday, July 28. 

These meetings will be open to non-members.  If you are interested in attending either meeting, please send a request to Berkenda Cantlo at bcantlo@omniair.org.

OmniAir Consortium entered a Memorandum of Understanding with TTIA to help advance OmniAir Certification for C-V2X in Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region.

About OmniAir Consortium

OmniAir Consortium is the leading industry association promoting interoperability and certification for ITS, tolling, and Connected Vehicles. OmniAir’s membership includes public agencies, private companies, research institutions, and independent test laboratories. Learn more about OmniAir at www.omniair.org.

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In conjunction with the OmniAir Costa del Sol Plugfest, hosted by DEKRA in Málaga, Spain (Oct. 24-28), OmniAir Consortium® is organizing a one-day workshop on advancing the connected mobility ecosystem.  This in-person workshop will address key technical and policy issues.  

OmniAir® is issuing a call for speakers. We invite leading ITS, automotive, and transportation experts from academia, government, and industry to submit proposals for the upcoming Plugfest today! We are interested in presentations on the following topics:

  • Connected Intersections and Infrastructure Deployments
  • C-V2X and 5G Standards and Testing Around the World
  • Road Usage Charging and V2X-based Tolling
  • Cybersecurity and SCMS Interoperability
  • Policy & Regulatory (NCAP, spectrum, funding)
  • Protecting Vulnerable Road Users (use cases for pedestrians, bicycles, micro-mobility)

The one-day workshop will take place on Tuesday, October 25 at the Málaga TechPark, adjacent to the DEKRA Connected and Automated Vehicle test facilities, where Plugfest testing will take place. 

The workshop will feature live C-V2X technology demonstrations, and guided tours of C-V2X laboratory and field testing, and an opportunity for hands-on learning about C-V2X technology.

OmniAir Plugfests are the premier testing events for connected vehicle technologies.  OmniAir brings together leading entire connected vehicle ecosystem from V2X Device Manufacturers, Automotive OEMs, Tier One Suppliers, Engineering Firms, Systems Integrators, Infrastructure Owner-Operators, V2X Test Laboratories, V2X Test Tool Providers and Government officials interested in deploying certified technologies.

Interested in presenting? To join our program of expert speakers, complete the online application form by September 1, 2022! Please contact Berkenda Cantlo for more information.

Interested in sponsoring? OmniAir offers several attractive sponsorship packages, please contact Ryan Hall, Vice President, Business Development for more information!  

About OmniAir Consortium

OmniAir Consortium is the leading industry association promoting interoperability and certification for ITS, tolling, and Connected Vehicles. OmniAir’s membership includes public agencies, private companies, research institutions, and independent test laboratories. Learn more about OmniAir at www.omniair.org.

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OmniAir Consortium®, the leading industry association promoting interoperability and certification for ITS, tolling, and connected vehicles, launched an Infrastructure to Roadside Unit Interface Certification (IRSUIF) program scope. The program scope was approved by the OmniAir® Board of Directors, at their meeting in Austin, Texas in June. The program addresses critical communications links between devices at connected intersections and the Connected Vehicle Roadside Unit (RSU). 

The OmniAir IRSUIF conformity assessment program will verify an infrastructure device at the roadside, or a traffic management center (TMC) has met industry consensus on protocol, interoperability, minimum performance, and testing requirements. This program will verify the conformance of infrastructure devices communicating with connected vehicle Road-Side Units (RSUs) to industry-defined, standards-based requirements. 

“This program will expand OmniAir certification beyond the RSU and OBU to support information sharing to facilitate applications that enhance safety for virtually all road users,” said Jason Conley, Executive Director of OmniAir.

This program will meet the certification needs of government transportation entities, connected vehicle technology implementers, and connected vehicle product manufacturers.

The certification program provides confidence that messages sent from an infrastructure device to an RSU are secured, either through signed messages or by providing messages through a secure connection.  This ensures in-vehicle applications can trust the data they receive.

For additional information, contact Ryan Hall, Vice President of Business Development.

About OmniAir Consortium

OmniAir Consortium is the leading industry association promoting interoperability and certification for ITS, tolling, and Connected Vehicles. OmniAir’s membership includes public agencies, private companies, research institutions, and independent test laboratories. Learn more about OmniAir at www.omniair.org.

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OmniAir Consortium®, the leading industry association promoting interoperability and certification for ITS, tolling, and connected vehicles, announces the Spirent, TTsuite-WAVE-LTEV has earned OmniAir Qualified Test Equipment (OQTE) status.

The TTsuite-WAVE-LTEV is a test solution for testing C-V2X protocol over a C-V2X interface that contains a set of interoperable scripts for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) standards used in North America, Korea, and Taiwan. Conformance testing of C-V2X devices is conducted through OmniAir’s Test Control Interface (TCIv3).

Certification is based on the following standards and OmniAir test cases:

  • 763-OA – IEEE 1609.2 Security Services for Applications and Management Messages
  • 765-OA – IEEE 1609.3 Network Services 
  • 767-OA – SAE J2945/1 Basic Safety Messages (BSM) for V2V Safety Communications

The test equipment will validate OmniAir-developed test cases for compliance of  C-V2X devices, and the solution helps ensure cross-vendor interoperability of C-V2X devices supporting those standards.

“Spirent earning OQTE status for their TTsuite-WAVE-LTEV will allow OmniAir Authorized Test Laboratories to conduct automated testing of the full stack for CV2X devices,  said Jason Conley, Executive Director. “Automated testing provides a high level of confidence and repeatability and will speed up the time needed to conduct certification testing of C-V2X devices vs. manually. ”

This solution supported two test stations at last month’s OmniAir Ann Arbor Plugfest that ran tests for nearly a dozen C-V2X devices over the week.

OmniAir Certification for V2X devices assures automotive OEMs, Tier One suppliers, and deploying agencies that OmniAir Certified devices conform to industry standards and meet minimum performance and interoperability requirements.

OmniAir’s OQTE program assesses and qualifies test equipment, systems, and tools used in the industry. Only those test systems and equipment that successfully pass OmniAir’s audit process to become a qualified product and are eligible for use by OmniAir Authorized Test Laboratories for certification testing.

OmniAir Consortium certified devices, qualified test equipment/tools, and authorized test laboratories, including the TTsuite-WAVE-LTEV, are located in our certified products catalog at www.omniair.org/certified-products/.

About OmniAir Consortium

OmniAir Consortium is the leading industry association promoting interoperability and certification for ITS, tolling, and connected vehicles. OmniAir’s membership includes public agencies, private companies, research institutions, and independent test laboratories. Learn more about OmniAir at www.omniair.org

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OmniAir hosted one of our most successful Plugfests at the University of Michigan’s Mcity Test Facility in Ann Arbor. Our event would not have been as successful without the generous financial support of INTEGRITY Security Services (ISS) as our event’s primary sponsor! 

The week-long testing event brought together leading C-V2X device manufacturers, test laboratories, and test equipment providers from Europe, Asia, and North America. Over a dozen test stations evaluated 18 unique C-V2X On-Board Units (OBU), Roadside Units (RSU), and modules from device manufacturers.  

“OmniAir Plugfests allow C-V2X vendors to learn from each other and test in an open and cooperative environment, improving industry performance across the board,” said Jason Conley, OmniAir’s Executive Director. “We appreciate the over 100 engineers and transportation professionals that participated making  this the best OmniAir Plugfest yet!” 

Our members took advantage of bench conformance, 1609.2 security, multi-root, SCMS certificate provisioning, and interoperability testing. In addition, there were Physical layers, J3161/1 Radio, 1609.3, J2735 WSMs, J2945/1 BSMs, RSU 4.1, and SNMP. 

For field testing, there were six V2X safety applications: Red Light Violation Warning (RLVW), Emergency Vehicle Preemption (EVP), Reduced Speed Zone (RSZ), Lane Closure Warning (LCW), Curve Speed Warning (CSW), and Emergency Electronic Brake Light, (EEBL). In addition to application testing, there was GNSS location accuracy and verification. 

OmniAir members participating in the Plugfest meet with principal stakeholders from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), including Dr. Henry Liu, Director of the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation, and Mary Lynn Buonarosa, Program Manager at UMTRI.  The presentation provided details on the upcoming ATCMTD Smart Intersections Project and their technology needs and expectations to help drive  CV2X technology deploymnets.

OmniAir also hosted a “VIP Day” that attracted over 50 guests, despite the pouring rain, to come and see testing first-hand and witness live technology demos by SPOKE, Audi, Commsignia, and Rohde & Schwarz. This event drew attendees from Ford, Toyota, GM, Audi, Verizon, Bosch, Macomb County, MDOT, the City of Ann Arbor, local bicycling associations, and  media.

OmniAir Plugfests are an excellent opportunity to determine the readiness of the V2X industry and to prepare devices, test equipment, and test laboratories for our certification, qualification, and authorization programs. OmniAir certification is successful because we certify RSU and OBU devices with OmniAir Qualified test systems used by laboratories, OATLs, that OmniAir has audited and authorized to provide third-party validation testing. 

There is no substitute for OmniAir’s C-V2X certification program. Our C-V2X device certification program is comprehensive and covers radio functionality, the V2X stack, message compliance protocols, radio integration into a device, applications, location accuracy, and device security. End users can be assured that an OmniAir certified device conforms to industry standards and is interoperable.

For those interested in learning more about the readiness of the C-V2X market, OmniAir will present aggregated and anonymized test results from the OmniAir Ann Arbor Plugfest during our next monthly membership meeting scheduled for Thursday, June 23. 

For those that attended the Plugfest or VIP Day and you have feedback on how we can make improvements to our events, please send a note, or call Ryan Hall. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. 

About OmniAir Consortium

OmniAir Consortium is the leading industry association promoting interoperability and certification for ITS, tolling, and connected vehicles. OmniAir’s membership includes public agencies, private companies, research institutions, and independent test laboratories. Learn more about OmniAir at www.omniair.org

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