Advantages: Protects Highway Workers
Beacons inform vehicles of
- Construction Work or Emergency Situation ahead on the road
- Lane closures and recommended speeds
- Times construction is occurring
- Worker’s vests, instructing vehicles to create a safety zone around them
Accurate Information without Delay
- RF-eye beacons transmit road information locally, and does NOT REQUIRE
- Power
- Connectivity
- Favorable weather
- Large data sets of all possible scenarios
- Currently, vehicles use DNN inferences from camera images to identify hazards, REQUIRING
- Internet connectivity
- Sending camera images to data center
- DNNs compare images to data sets of very similar scenarios
- An interpretation of the situation by DNNs – which may be inaccurate
- Relaying the interpretation and recommended actions to the vehicle
- All of which creates significant lag times. Worker’s lives depend on accurate data in a timely manner
Protects Assets
- Identification beacons protect construction and emergency vehicles and equipment