@article{ref1,
title="V-alert: description and validation of a vulnerable road user alert system in the framework of a smart city",
journal="Sensors (Basel)",
year="2015",
author="Hernandez-Jayo, Unai and De-la-Iglesia, Idoia and Perez, Jagoba",
volume="15",
number="8",
pages="18480-18505",
abstract="V-Alert is a cooperative application to be deployed in the frame of Smart Cities with the aim of reducing the probability of accidents involving Vulnerable Road Users (VRU) and vehicles. The architecture of V-Alert combines short- and long-range communication technologies in order to provide more time to the drivers and VRU to take the appropriate maneuver and avoid a possible collision. The information generated by mobile sensors (vehicles and cyclists) is sent over this heterogeneous communication architecture and processed in a central server, the Drivers Cloud, which is in charge of generating the messages that are shown on the drivers' and cyclists' Human Machine Interface (HMI). First of all, V-Alert has been tested in a simulated scenario to check the communications architecture in a complex scenario and, once it was validated, all the elements of V-Alert have been moved to a real scenario to check the application reliability. All the results are shown along the length of this paper.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1424-8220",
doi="10.3390/s150818480",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s150818480"
}