Olga Weis
Last updated Jul 5, 2024
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that rapidly evolving technologies significantly change people’s daily routines by providing the exciting possibility of connecting virtually any device or machine to the network. Today, it’s no problem to establish effective communication with a remote vehicle over the internet. What makes this happen is something known as vehicle-to-network (V2N) technology. Read on to learn what is meant by V2N and what great benefits it offers to road users.
Vehicle-to-Network (V2N) is a technology that connects vehicles to network services and infrastructure, enabling data exchange with traffic systems, cloud services, and the internet, thus enhancing smart transportation and smart city integration.
Following recent tendencies in the automotive industry, the communication between critical car components as well as a vehicle and its management system rely less on manual intervention and more on network-based V2N technologies.
Today’s highly reliable network infrastructures allow cars to get important information like notifications about road accidents or warnings about traffic jams from the management system working over the internet. This means faster and safer journeys and more autonomous driving.
With the use of V2N technology and cellular networks, vehicles become capable of exchanging data with V2X (vehicle-to-everything) control systems. This technology gives you the answers to the questions of how to remove a vehicle from the network fleet, how to change the vehicle name in the network fleet, how to design vehicle routing problems for a logistic network, how to deregister a vehicle in the network fleet, and many more.
V2N data transfer channels give you a way to interact with cars like they were “devices” such as an iPhone or a tablet.
The adoption of V2N technology brings a host of benefits and these are the major ones:
In a nutshell, Vehicle-to-Network technology is designed to simplify data exchange between cars, buses, pedestrians’ devices, traffic lights, and any other road objects connected to a single V2N network. The primary mission is to provide the greatest possible road safety.
To achieve this, vehicles are integrated with dedicated (often cloud-based) data centers. With stable access to the network, a vehicle can get the most accurate real-time traffic alerts and updates.
The technology also enables communications from vehicle to vehicle, which means the driver of one car can receive information about the speed and position of another car directly from the latter. This results in fewer collisions as many potential accidents are avoided thanks to useful vehicle-to-vehicle technologies known as left turn assist (LTA) and intersection movement assist (IMA).
Another effective way to reduce the number of accidents on the road is to set up a connection between the vehicle and the road infrastructure objects, for instance, traffic lights. The lights may be changed once a vehicle is detected by some sensor installed on the pavement.
