A novel On Board Device for improving passengers safety

Vehicular communications attract researchers in developing new solutions for enhancing the on-board comfort and increase drivers and passengers safety. In this work, a new device called Safety On-Board Device (SOBD) is proposed to increase performances of the on board system. A dedicated protocol for promoting a vehicles cooperation has been designed by exploiting Wave Short Message Protocol (WSMP) and WAVE Short Message (WSM) beacons format. The main goal may help drivers to have a faster reaction to dangerous situations. This will be tested in a simulated urban environment to demonstrate the effective goodness of the proposal. This system will help to reduce the overall number of collisions achieving a reduction of traffic jams and measured journey time.