NANOHMICS INC — Department of Transportation SBIR Phase II: 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 proposes to develop a conformal 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).