NXP Semiconductors and eSSys will serve as technology partners in South Korea’s next-generation Cooperative Intelligent Transportation System (C-ITS) project.

This project is promoted by the South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

NXP will supply eSSys with its RoadLINK V2X chipset, a vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2X) communication and security solution.

“Our advanced intelligent transport technologies will significantly contribute to saving lives on Korean roads, improving traffic flow and boosting the overall convenience of transport.”

This solution will be test-operated on an 87.8 km route between Sejong City and Daejon.

C-ITS with NXP will offer secure information exchange in real time between vehicles (vehicle-to-vehicle, V2V) and between cars and the surrounding intelligent infrastructure (vehicle-to-infrastructure, V2I) including roadworks, traffic signs or traffic lights.

RoadLINK V2X communication and security technology is important for the development and advancement of self-driving cars and macro-traffic management.

This technology allows vehicles to wirelessly exchange information such as speed, position and direction with other automobiles in their vicinity.

It also enables vehicles and infrastructure to communicate traffic management data or notices such as localised speed limits, traffic signaling and road works warnings, hazardous conditions and more.

RoadLINK is an integral part of the chipset that protects the privacy of the driver and prevents hacking or manipulation.

NXP automotive business unit chief technology officer Lars Reger said: “It is an honor that our proven RoadLINK V2X chipset was selected for the next-generation intelligent transport system by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation.

“Our advanced intelligent transport technologies will significantly contribute to saving lives on Korean roads, improving traffic flow and boosting the overall convenience of transport.

“Based on software-defined radio technology, our hardware platform is able to support the Korean V2X standard, as well as the vast majority of regional variants around the globe.”

eSSys CEO Yong-beom Kim said: “As a Korea-based vehicle electronics systems provider, eSSys supplies communications modules to automobile manufacturers and tier one suppliers combining high efficiency and optimum performance.

“eSSys’ WAVE communications systems based on NXP’s proven RoadLINK V2X chipset are expected to play a key role in the national C-ITS project.”

A wide range of smart transport technologies are being installed on national highways as 2018 Winter Olympic Games are scheduled to take place in Pyeongchang.