Safety, smart and clean are ITRI’s vision and motivation to achieve a better driving environment. We develop our R&D activities from three perspectives, wireless connectivity, intelligent cooperation system, and operation, administration, maintenance and provisioning (OAM&P) technology for intelligent vehicles. For wireless connectivity, we implement technology which can enable any client to connect to the network through vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-roadside unit, vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-any client communications. With ubiquitous connection, it enables clients to collaborate and work together to form an intelligent cooperation system which makes possible any vehicular application under a uniform service platform.
To keep our earth green, it is no doubt that EVs will be expected to take a key role for transportation, however, there are still some challenges to overcome. For example, EV’s battery life has limited endurance. High-voltage design might cause dangerous situation that drivers and maintenance people might encounter. To facilitate EV business in consumer market, it is an important strategy to ensure all EVs can be well monitored and managed. That’s the initiation why we start the plan to develop OAM&P technology for EVs.
ITRI is renowned for its innovations of new technology developments with close liaison to the leading-edge high-tech players in Taiwan and Asia. In past years, Taiwan has demonstrated its capacity on global ICT market. It is time for Taiwan to extend its distinguished solution to high value-added automotive electronic market. How ITRI can jump into 4C (3C + Car) business under the circumstance of absent of global auto maker in Taiwan?

Dr. T.C. Chiang is the Division Director of the Telematics and Control System Division in the Information and Communications Research Laboratories (ICL) of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan. His division is responsible for the evolution of Telematics, EV control platform, and ITS related applications and services, focusing on communication and infotainment technology for Telematics service creation, implementation, delivery, operation and maintenance. Dr. Chiang is also currently in charge of NextGen Telematics project in ITRI since 2008.
Prior to his present job in ITRI, Dr. Chiang was in an architecture team for Lucent's Bell Labs, INU and Global Professional Service organizations in Naperville, USA, participating in numerous forums, including industry Conferences and standards meetings, leading the evolution planning for Lucent’s INU product into the packet and mobile technology areas.
Dr. Chiang holds a MS degree in electrical engineering and a PhD degree in computer science in Illinois Institute of Technology at Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is also an adjunct professor giving the lecture for Vehicular Networks and Communications in National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan, since 2008.

Although there was an idea of use of radio wave for vehicular safety in 1920’s, and there were route guidance systems with road-to-vehicle communications since 1940’s, it was since the year 2000 when the importance of the communications for vehicular safety was recognized. The earliest research on vehicle-to-vehicle communications was one that was conducted by a Japanese organization. By the year 2000, the vehicle-to-vehicle communications were mainly applied to automated vehicle platoons including a platoon of 8 passenger cars by California PATH, 2 truck platoon by EU, and cooperative driving of 5 passenger cars by the author. Since the year 2000, there have been many projects on vehicular safety communications based on road-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communications like CARTALK 2000, Fleetnet, and CVIS in EU, and VII or IntelliDrive in USA, and AHS and DSSS in Japan. Along with these projects standardization on the communications has been promoted. One of the difficulties of the vehicular safety communications is the penetration of onboard communication units. The intersection collision warning with vehicle-to-vehicle communications, for example, basically requires 100 % penetration. For the introduction and deployment of vehicular safety communications, applications that work even at a low penetration rate will be essential.

Dr. Sadayuki Tsugawa is a Professor of Information Engineering at Meijo University, Japan. He received his B. E. degree, M. E. degree, and Doctor of Engineering degree in 1968, 1970, and 1973, respectively in instrumentation and control engineering all from the University of Tokyo. In 1973, he joined the Mechanical Engineering laboratory under Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). He also was a Professor of Graduate School at University of Tsukuba from 1993 to 2003. In 2003 he resigned the laboratory and moved to Meijo University.
In 1970's he was involved with two ITS projects in the laboratory: a dynamic route guidance system and a vision-based intelligent vehicle. The dynamic route guidance system, named Comprehensive Automobile Traffic Control System (CACS) and sponsored by MITI, was the first one in the world that was installed in an urban area (downtown of Tokyo), although experimentally, and was experimented for one year. The vision-based intelligent vehicle was also the first one in the world that autonomously drove on a test track. Since then, he has been conducting research on ITS, and, in particular, on Advanced Vehicle Control and Safety Systems (AVCSS), including driver assistance systems and automated driving systems. His current interests are in energy saving and global warming prevention with ITS technologies including automated vehicles as well as vehicle safety communications (VSC) based on inter-vehicle communications.
He has served as general chair and program chair in many international and domestic conferences and symposia sponsored by IEEE ITS Society, IFAC Transportation Committee, and other domestic academic societies. He is a BOG member of IEEE ITS Society since 2008. Since 2008 he has been serving as project leader of Japanese national project named "Energy ITS" sponsored by Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, which is focusing on CO2 emission reduction from automobile transportation and global warming prevention. The main theme of the project is an automated heavy truck platoon.
He was awarded the best paper prize by the Japanese Society of Instrument and Control Engineers in 1991, and by the Minister of Science and Technology for the research on ITS and AVCSS in 1999.