MANTIS is a three-year research project, aimed at designing a comprehensive framework for the development of heterogeneous applications in intelligent transport systems and at implementing and demonstrating driver assistance systems towards improvement of road transport. The MANTIS framework will exploit technologies of rapidly growing sensor and vehicular networks and will pursue their integration with Internet technologies and cloud applications.
- Enable geolocation of vehicles via the application of various methods for the reliable and continuous position detection, regardless of environmental and network conditions.
- Enable the collection and dispatch of useful data for recording primary operational parameters through appropriate Internet interfaces and protocols.
- Enable the automatic execution of emergency calls via Internet communications (VoIP) - even in cases of passengers’ incapacity - by means of automatic call routing, to the appropriate/closest management and driver assistance centres, based on vehicle’s location, accompanied with critical data from the on-board sensory instruments (NG-eCall).
- Enable the collection and transmission of useful data for tracking environmental and extraordinary conditions by external infrastructure management centres (e.g. road operators, prefectures etc.) as well as by fleet management systems for corporate (M2M) applications, exploiting crowdsourcing techniques and intelligent big data analytics.
- Enable interoperability and customized (or based on geographic criteria or current conditions) or simultaneous connection and dispatch of data in the selected management centres.