title: V-Alert: Description and Validation of a Vulnerable Road User Alert System in the Framework of a Smart City.
abstract: V-Alert is a cooperative application to be deployed in the frame of Smart Cities with the aim of reducing the probability of accidents involving Vulnerable Road Users (VRU) and vehicles. The architecture of V-Alert combines short- and long-range communication technologies in order to provide more time to the drivers and VRU to take the appropriate maneuver and avoid a possible collision. The information generated by mobile sensors (vehicles and cyclists) is sent over this heterogeneous communication architecture and processed in a central server, the Drivers Cloud, which is in charge of generating the messages that are shown on the drivers' and cyclists' Human Machine Interface (HMI). First of all, V-Alert has been tested in a simulated scenario to check the communications architecture in a complex scenario and, once it was validated, all the elements of V-Alert have been moved to a real scenario to check the application reliability. All the results are shown along the length of this paper.
authors.affiliation: Deusto Institute of Technology (DeustoTech), University of Deusto, Bilbao 48007, Spain. unai.hernandez@deusto.es.
authors.forename: Unai
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hernandez-Jayo
authors.affiliation: Deusto Institute of Technology (DeustoTech), University of Deusto, Bilbao 48007, Spain. idoia.delaiglesia@deusto.es.
authors.forename: Idoia
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: De-la-Iglesia
authors.affiliation: Deusto Institute of Technology (DeustoTech), University of Deusto, Bilbao 48007, Spain. jagobaperez92@opendeusto.es.
authors.forename: Jagoba
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Perez
keywords: smart cities; vehicular networks; vulnerable road users