NANOHMICS INC — Department of Transportation SBIR Phase I: 190-FH1

Description

The means to communicate real-time safety information to vehicles on a roadway are currently under development.Early indications show this advanced warning system along roadways would significantly enhance driver safety. However, incorporating such a system on rural highways is a particularly challenging element for the universal deployment of the system due to the vast mileage without the necessary infrastructure in place. Nonetheless, this is a necessary element of a universal safety communication system, especially, considering the majority of crash fatalities occur on rural highways. Nanohmics, in collaboration with Texas State University and under the consultation of Cintra US, proposes to develop a conformal, peel-and-stick ferrite waveguide embedded in roadway striping. This waveguide will drastically decrease the cost and time of installation of a safety communication network by taking advantage of readily available infrastructure (i.e. roadway striping) to significantly increase the range of broadcasting elements (e.g. vehicular and roadside antennae).