Author: Ryan Hall

OmniAir Consortium®,  the leading industry association promoting interoperability and certification for ITS, Tolling and Connected Vehicles, has awarded OmniAir Certification to Lear Corporation for its  Locomate Roadstar  DSRC OnBoard Unit (OBU) for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications.

“We are pleased to announce the first OmniAir Certified™ device of the New Year.  Congratulations to our member Lear Corporation for achieving OmniAir Certification,” said Jason Conley, Executive Director of OmniAir.  OmniAir Certification Release 1 ensures that V2X devices conform with designated industry standards and meet minimum interoperability and security requirements.

               

 

In 2017, Lear Corporation was selected by Wyoming Department of Transportation as its exclusive partner to supply advanced vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure Road Side Units (RSU) and On Board Units (OBU).  Wyoming is one of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s pilot sites for connected vehicles, with a focus on trucking and highway driving in advanced weather conditions.

V2X connected devices promise to deliver a safer commute, by providing information that helps drivers navigate around blind corners, bad weather, and poor lighting conditions.  V2X applications will significantly help to reduce congestion and lower emissions through optimized mobility and traffic coordination.

OmniAir Consortium certified devices, qualified test equipment/tools, and authorized test laboratories can be found and verified, including Lear’s Locomate Roadstar OBU, on our certified products catalog located 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

About Lear
Lear Corporation was founded in Detroit in 1917 as American Metal Products. Today, Lear is one of the world’s leading suppliers of automotive seating systems and electrical systems (E-Systems).  Lear serves every major automaker in the world, and Lear content can be found on more than 400 vehicle nameplates. Lear’s world-class products are designed, engineered and manufactured by a diverse team of approximately 165,000 employees located in 39 countries. Lear currently ranks #151 on the Fortune 500. Lear’s headquarters are in Southfield, Michigan. Further information about Lear is available at lear.com or follow us on Twitter @LearCorporation.

 

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OmniAir Consortium®, the leading industry association promoting interoperability and certification for connected vehicles, tolling, and intelligent transportation systems announces RFID technology leader Neology has joined OmniAir® as an Executive Member.   Neology is OmniAir’s first new member for 2019.

Neology is a U.S. based high technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, with manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Mexico City. Since their founding in 1986, their company has been a pioneer and leader in the development of passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology and in recent years broadened their vision to become a unique provider of fully integrated, passive RFID solutions.

Today, passive RFID technology is changing the way private industry and governments do business regarding security, tracking, and instant transactions.  To quickly respond to new trends and provide customers with innovative products and solutions, Neology is continuously expanding their product range, technological scope, and research and development efforts. Neology holds over 300 patents and patent applications worldwide.

“We are excited to have a leading provider of tolling & parking technologies like Neology as OmniAir’s newest Executive Member,” said Jason Conley, Executive Director of OmniAir Consortium. “Neology’s participation in OmniAir will strengthen our long-standing RFID tolling certification programs.”

OmniAir offers independent, third-party testing and certification for both RFID tolling and DSRC V2X devices. OmniAir’s certification for 6C tolling devices was first launched in 2012.  OmniAir plans to begin offering multi-protocol device certification for tolling in 2019.

About Neology

Neology is a leading provider of integrated end-to-end solutions for the tolling, electronic vehicle registration (EVR) and public safety markets. The company is a pioneer and leader in the development of passive RFID technology owning some of the earliest and most significant intellectual property (IP) in the industry. For more information, visit www.neology.net.

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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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 28, 2018

OmniAir Consortium Urges the FCC to Reserve the full 5.9 GHz Spectrum for V2X

Washington, D.C. – OmniAir Consortium®, the leading industry association promoting interoperability and certification for ITS, tolling, and Connected Vehicles, today filed comments in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Engineering Technology’s Phase I Test Report on spectrum sharing between Vehicle-to-Everything (“V2X”) and unlicensed devices.

OmniAir urges the Commission to preserve the availability of the full 5.9 GHz allocation and reserve its availability for transportation safety applications, regardless of the underlying wireless transmission technology.

Based on OmniAir’s review of the FCC’s Test Report, it is apparent that the limited scope of laboratory testing in Phase I is inadequate to determine that it is safe for these transportation safety applications to share the band with unlicensed devices.

“Regardless of the underlying wireless communication technology, whether DSRC, C-V2X or another, there must be a ’safe‘ home, one free from harmful interference, for these proven safety-of-life communications, said Jason M. Conley, Executive Director of OmniAir Consortium.  “It is imperative that basic safety messages between vehicles, between vehicles and the roadside, and between vehicles and pedestrians, occur without interference.”

OmniAir, its partners, and other industry leaders have achieved significant milestones in the development and deployment of V2X communications technologies and services, including those technologies and services using DSRC for “trusted” communications.  This progress has occurred despite the several years’ delay and uncertainty over the continued availability of the 5.9 GHz Band (5850-5925 MHz).

V2X technologies and services has made significant progress over the past five years reaching the state where an industry-driven certification program is established to accelerate deployments. DSRC is being deployed today in numbers that are already benefiting the traveling public. V2X technologies and services have already shown that they can provide safer and more efficient automotive travel.  OmniAir urges the FCC to complete the planned Phase II and Phase III testing as soon as possible.

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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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has awarded a contract to OmniAir Consortium® to provide Next-Generation V2X Certification. This contract builds upon OmniAir’s existing V2X certification program to ensure future certification needs, and specifically, security-based needs, are met through the process of certification.

 

The objectives of this project are to:

  • Identify and define minimum security requirements that devices must meet to be trusted in a V2X ecosystem through the establishment and facilitation of a security-based working group.
  • Develop a coordination process among certification members, standards development organizations (SDOs), and USDOT to ensure that certification test suites remain in sync with the latest standards and the certification program continues to respond to market needs.

“OmniAir Consortium is pleased to work with FHWA to ensure that OmniAir’s existing V2X testing and certification programs address security needs and specific needs for infrastructure equipment,” said Jason Conley, Executive Director of OmniAir Consortium.

 

OmniAir and our members will address several key tasks: minimum security requirements, SDO standards coordination, and test procedures not publicly released into OmniAir’s certification process.

 

OmniAir intends to identify and define minimum security requirement levels that devices must meet to become trusted in a V2X communications ecosystem. This deliverable will occur through the establishment and facilitation of a security-based working group. This activity enables and allows for a coordinated process among certification members, standards development organizations (SDOs), and the USDOT to ensure that certification test suites remain in sync with the latest standards and the certification program continues to respond to market needs.

 

Minimum Security Recommendations for V2X Systems

This activity will identify and define minimum security requirements that devices must meet to have trusted communications in a V2X ecosystem through our security-focused working group. OmniAir will facilitate industry inputs through our diverse and specialized membership involved in V2X security, certificates, and testing entities.

 

Establish SDO Coordination Process for Certification Evolution

The objective of this task is to establish an SDO coordination process to ensure developed test suites remain in sync with the latest standards that the OmniAir Consortium certification program continues to evolve in response to market needs. OmniAir will define a process to communicate any test suite updates to our certification service users ensuring they are aligned with relevant standards and be able to provide their interpretation. To develop the parameters of a coordination process OmniAir staff, typically the Technical Director will continue to participate, engage and interface with relevant

Standards Developing Organizations and ITS Standards Programs such as IEEE, ITE, NTCIP & SAE entities involved in V2X standards under this task capacity.

 

Provide Technical Support as Next-Generation V2X Test Procedures are Finalized

This activity provides limited technical support from OmniAir to the USDOT (and its contractors) during the development and finalization of the next generation V2X test procedures from other government-sponsored task orders. Specifically, this will include new test cases for roadside units (RSUs) and connected infrastructure. OmniAir will review and provide comments for certification readiness within three months of receipt of the test procedure drafts provided. Comments generated will be facilitated through the technical director and could include consolidated in-kind contributions

from the V2X technical committee if appropriate.

 

OmniAir Consortium members will have an opportunity to contribute to this effort-especially on device security-which builds upon the work of OmniAir’s existing Cybersecurity Working Group, which has been developing new requirements and test cases.  This project will be discussed in detail on our November 29 Monthly Membership call.

 

OmniAir held a kick-off meeting for the project on November 9. The period of performance goes through March 2020.

 

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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Seoul, Korea, November 13, 2018 – OmniAir Consortium, the leading industry organization promoting global interoperability for tolling, intelligent transportation systems (“ITS”), and connected vehicles, announces a formal partnership with ITS Korea.

Yongsung Cho, Head of ITS Korea’s Center for Technology & Standardization and OmniAir Consortium Executive Director Jason Conley signed an accord to jointly develop a connected vehicle certification program in Korea, based on OmniAir’s existing and evolving connected vehicle interoperability conformance and certification programs, in an official signing ceremony in Seoul.

“OmniAir Consortium is honored to enter into this historic agreement with ITS Korea to further cooperation on Connected Vehicle testing and certification,” said Jason Conley, Executive Director of OmniAir Consortium. “ITS Korea has been a leader in promoting the development and deployment of V2X, and this partnership is consistent with OmniAir Consortium’s mission to advance V2X interoperability and certification around the world.”

Last year, OmniAir Consortium launched the world’s first independent, third-party testing and certification program for V2X-DSRC devices. To serve the growing global demand for Connected Vehicles and Connected Infrastructure, OmniAir is expanding testing and certification programs around the world through partnerships like this one, and through expansion of our network of OmniAir Authorized Test Laboratories.  Currently, OmniAir has four labs located across North America and one in Europe. OmniAir will announce its first OmniAir Authorized Test Laboratory in Asia in the coming weeks.

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.

About ITS Korea
To promote mutual cooperation among the public and private sectors for efficient implementation of ITS and to contribute to the development of ITS field through various research, policy consultation, technology promotion, and business activities related to ITS.  https://itskorea.kr

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