A centralized real-time Advanced Driver Assistance System based on smartphones
This work leverages the wide diffusion of smartphones andexisting cellular network to implement a centralized, real-time, AdvancedDriver Assistance System. Each vehicle is equipped with a smartphonethat periodically computes and sends vehicle’s global position and speedthrough GPRS or UMTS network. The centralized server snaps all run-ning vehicles into digital maps and implements safety algorithms to de-tect potential dangerous situations. The identification of a prospectivecrash generates a warning on the smartphone to alert the driver. Thispaper presents the general hardware and software architecture and theimplementation of two use cases. An evaluation of the critical aspects of the system is also provided.