Third C2C-CC forum at Volkswagen

3-4, Nov. 2009, the third C2C-CC forum of this year was held in Wolfsburg, the headquarter of VW.

From the program , it can be seen that the focus of C2C-CC's work is current no the standardzation and the SI-TD project is gainning high public awareness. Technical researches are seen in the areas of overall system archtecture involving in multi-system interoperation and scalable VANET through transmit power control.

Source: Car-2-Car Communication Consortium.

Wireless Wolfsburg and Auto@web on CeBIT 09

Hannover, 6 Mar., 2009. Volkswagen showcased the projects "Autp@web" and wireless Wolfsburg on CeBIT 2009.

A Tiguan provided wireless internet access was shown to be able to provide the driver with up-to-date information about the environment and surroundings, e.g., the city's event calender, with a litst of local attractions and veneus. This vehicle was build by Volkswagen Group Research within the project "auto@web" and the wireless infrastructure in the city Wolfsburg, one of the biggest connected WiFi city-wide networks in Germany, was deploimented by the project Wireless Wolfsburg.

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