Author: Ryan Hall

OmniAir Consortium, the leading industry association promoting interoperability and certification for ITS, tolling, and connected vehicles, announced today the launch of a new initiative to develop a certification program for the next generation of transportation payment systems.

This comprehensive initiative will provide assurance to infrastructure owner-operators (IOOs) that transportation payment technologies—such as V2X-based tolling, road usage charging (RUC), and mobile app-based payments are interoperable, conform to industry standards, and meet end-user requirements.

At the same time, the automotive and tolling industries are cooperating to leverage connected vehicle-based technologies for toll payments. Meanwhile, mobile app-based technologies have opened a world of possibilities for road pricing and demand management strategies.

As the U.S. Congress continues to consider the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework, there is a growing need for fair and equitable solutions to finance this investment. Emerging payment solutions, such as RUC/Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) payments, have been piloted extensively in recent years, and are now poised for operational deployments.

“We are excited to open this new initiative to our members,” said Jason Conley, Executive Director of OmniAir. “We are entering an exciting period, where for the first time, tolling and V2X activities are merging and those that volunteer at these early stages have the ability to shape its future.”

OmniAir’s new V2X-Based Tolling and Road User Charging Initiative will be a collaboration between infrastructure owner-operators and industry stakeholders to address these needs. Suzanne Murtha, Vice President of Connected and Automated Vehicles for AECOM will chair the new initiative.

The working group identified three key categories to explore: V2X-based Tolling, Mobile Payment Applications and Road User Charging (RUC) and each segment is led by a pair of industry leaders.

The Scope of Test Plan for the J3217 tiger team is led by Qualcomm Senior Staff Engineers, Drew Van Duren, and Sean Maschue. The objective of this group is to develop the scope of a test plan, based on J3217, including all aspects of application functionality.

The Mobile payment applications tiger team is led by Kapsch TrafficCom North America’s National Practice Lead, Steve Sprouffske, and ClearRoad Co-Founder and COO, Paul Salama. The group will lead in defining the tolling and RUC mobile application certification points to ensure industry-wide standardization, reliability, and robustness while not encroaching on innovation. The group will also define the breadth of the Mobile App domain, and the interfaces into the Mobile app, and the associated data standards processes. Mobile App Interfaces may include Consumer, Vehicle, transportation agency/Toll Authority/Roadway operator, Payment processors, back-office, reporting and auditing, regional/national clearinghouses, and other stakeholders.

The Road User Charging (RUC) Certification Stakeholder Engagement tiger team is led by the Oregon Department of Transportation Office of Innovation Manager, Maureen Bock, and WSP USA’s Road Usage Charge Technical Subject Matter Expert, Markell Moffett. Many jurisdictions are exploring road usage charge (RUC) programs, where people pay for road usage by the mile rather than by the gallon. These programs require multiple subsystems and components that perform activities to accurately collect, process, and collect a RUC. This tiger team will define and delineate each subsystem and component, as well as identify which subsystems, components, and communications between them have current or emerging standards against which they can be certified. This tiger team will also explore what stakeholder engagement is needed to ensure the right voices are at the table to develop a RUC certification program that supports the needs of jurisdictions and industry.

OmniAir provides the opportunity for its members to work collaboratively to develop and decide on requirements for national certification programs. If you would like more information or are interested in participating in this exciting new initiative, please contact Jason Conley, Executive Director. The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 4 at 3:00 PM EDT.

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. OmniAir offers independent, third-party testing and certification for connected vehicles, including cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) and Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) radios. For information about our certification programs and readiness testing events, visit our website 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 that ClearRoad has joined OmniAir Consortium as an Associate Level Member.

ClearRoad, based in Brooklyn, New York, is becoming one of the largest and most trusted vehicle data interface companies for governments and is already covering over 150,000 miles of roadway. The company streamlines and standardizes travel data through the cloud and pulls from a wide range of connected vehicle technologies and reporting solutions through an API to enable road usage pricing for vehicles anywhere.

“We are excited to welcome ClearRoad, a recognized leader in Road Usage Charging and NextGen Tolling, as the newest OmniAir Member,” said Jason Conley, Executive Director of OmniAir Consortium.

“Joining OmniAir allows ClearRoad to work directly with numerous partners and affiliates to find a sustainable way to fund road maintenance, preservation, and improvements for transportation agencies,” said Frederic Charlier, CEOClearRoad Inc.

ClearRoad has four core categories: Road Usage Charging, NextGen Tolling, Truck Management, and Permitting and Congestion Reduction. Each of these core components builds upon each other, allowing governments to control their streets utilizing open systems. To learn more about OmniAir’s newest member, visit www.clearroad.io.

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. OmniAir offers independent, third-party testing and certification for connected vehicles, including cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) and Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) radios. For information about our certification programs and readiness testing events, visit our website at www.omniair.org.

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OmniAir Consortium, its partners, and participating members gathered for the first time in over 18 months for the OmniAir Michigan Plugfest. Thanks to the event host, Danlaw Inc., event partner, Mcity Test Facility, and all of our participating members, the event was a resounding success!

The week-long testing event brought together leading C-V2X device manufacturers, test laboratories, and test equipment providers from Europe, Asia, and North America for our first C-V2X focused Plugfest.

Bench testing took place at the Danlaw Inc. headquarters in Novi, Michigan. Field testing was hosted at the state-of-the-art connected vehicle proving grounds at the Mcity Test Facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

 

The Michigan Plugfest had an impressive gathering of 14 C-V2X test equipment providers offering both bench and field testing and 20 unique C-V2X On-Board Unit (OBU) and Roadside Unit (RSU) connected vehicle devices. The combination of 20 C-V2X OBUs and RSUs came from 11 participating device vendors including, Applied Information, Autotalks, Cohda Wireless, Commsignia, Continental, Danlaw, Harman, Hitachi, Kapsch, Siemens, and Qualcomm.

The devices under test (DUTs) took advantage of 1609.2 security, multi-root, and SCMS certificate provisioning from five PKI providers Autocrypt, Blackberry, Escrypt, Integrity Security Services, and Microsec.

Anritsu, Keysight, NI, Nordsys, Rohde & Schwarz, S.E.A. Datentechnik GmbH, Spirent, and Wayties provided 156 individual test sessions offering a wide array of tests including PHY, J3161/1 Radio, Applications, 1609.3 NS, J2735 WSMs, J2945/1 BSMs, RSU 4.1 and SNMP. In addition to the test equipment providers, DEKRA, our first OmniAir Authorized Test Laboratory (OTAL) contributed to the testing efforts.

“This event was an unequivocal success due to the tremendous in-person participation and global support,” said Jason Conley, OmniAir’s Executive Director. “OmniAir Plugfests provide an opportunity for V2X vendors to learn from each other and to test in an open and cooperative environment, improving industry performance across the board.”

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 Michigan Plugfest during our next monthly membership meeting on Thursday, July 29. 

 

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. OmniAir offers independent, third-party testing and certification for connected vehicles, including cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) and Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) radios. For information about our certification programs and readiness testing events, visit our website 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 that LG Innotek has joined OmniAir Consortium as an Associate Level Member.

LG Innotek, Korea’s first electronic components company, was founded in 1970 and has grown to include four business units including Electronic Components, Optics Solutions, Substrate and Material, and Automotive Components, and currently employs over 15,000 individuals in ten countries.

“We are excited to have a recognized global leader in automotive electronics as the newest OmniAir Member,” said Jason Conley, Executive Director of OmniAir Consortium. “The company’s deep experience and expertise as a Tier 2 supplier for the automotive industry and will help OmniAir to advance its testing and certification programs for connected vehicles.”

LG Innotek is an automotive Tier 2 company that can supply stable V2X hardware for mass production and deliver software supporting both C-V2X and DSRC with a single software development kit (SDK). In addition, their products can be used regardless of the region.

OmniAir looks forward to working with LG Innotek’s team of engineers and software developers to help shape and develop our newest certification program for modules 2021. LG Innotek is a global leader in module development and was the world’s first to develop a dual-use DSRC / C-V2X module. LG Innotek’s perspective and expertise will be invaluable to our certification program that is scheduled to launch in Q4 of 2021.

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. OmniAir offers independent, third-party testing and certification for connected vehicles, including cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) and Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) radios. For information about our certification programs and readiness testing events, visit our website at www.omniair.org.

About LG Innotek

With a vision of ‘Global No.1 Material and Component Company’, LG Innotek specializes in vehicles, mobile devices, IoT, displays, and semiconductors. Out of all of LG Innotek’s superior products, its camera modules, photomasks, and tape substrates, in particular, are leading the global markets. In addition, LG Innotek is preparing to meet the needs of future-oriented businesses by developing innovative products in the automotive and IoT fields.

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OmniAir Consortium®, the leading industry association promoting interoperability and certification for ITS, tolling, and Connected Vehicles, announced today that Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA), based in Seongnam, Korea, is the first OmniAir Authorized Test Laboratory (OATL) for LTE-V2X PC5-based, cellular-vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology based in Asia.

OmniAir‘s certification program provides third-party accredited laboratory testing and validation of C-V2X devices to ensure that device manufacturers, suppliers, and automotive OEMs entering the V2X market develop products that conform to industry standards and meet minimum performance and interoperability requirements. This accreditation authorizes TTA to perform laboratory and field testing for C-V2X devices at their Seongnam, Korea facility.

“Expanding OmniAir‘s C-V2X connected vehicle certification program across the globe promotes competition and choice in world-class testing facilities for our members,” Jason Conley, Executive Director for OmniAir Consortium. “TTA is a proven leader in providing connected vehicle testing, and we are pleased they are our first laboratory in Asia to pass the comprehensive audit to become an OATL to offer C-V2X certification testing.“

OmniAir encourages C-V2X roadside unit (RSU) and on-board unit (OBU) manufacturers ready for certification testing to complete the entire registration process early. A test plan and a priority testing slot will be granted upon receipt of the completed application, product certification agreement, and OmniAir‘s certification payment.

OmniAir Consortium Authorized Test Laboratories can be found and verified by visiting our authorized laboratory catalog at https://omniair.org/authorized-test-labs/.

For information about our certification programs, visit our website at www.omniair.org.

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.

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