Smartphone-Integrated Connectivity Applications for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

The emergence of the smartphone as a powerful mobile computing platform has resulted in the tremendous growth of user services. This paper describes a smartphone-integrated vehicle platform that utilizes vehicle-to-vehicle/infrastructure/pedestrian (broadly V2X) communication to provide a variety of traveler information and infotainment services. The system and underlying architecture enables a smartphone to host a variety of applications and seamlessly integrate with vehicle services. This approach facilitates the deployment of new services without changes to the vehicle architecture. A variety of applications were developed to demonstrate the capabilities of the system.