Welcome to the OmniAir Consortium
The OmniAir Consortium is the leading advocate for the national deployment of open, effective, and interoperable advanced transportation technologies to dramatically improve the safety, mobility and efficiency of highway transportation. OmniAir Members are organizations and people from the public and private sector intricately involved in ITS & telematics and who appreciate the great potential of open-standards-based systems. They reflect the highest degree of business and technical expertise evident in this community. Through the member-defined OmniAir Certification program and OmniAir Certification Services, an affiliate test organizations, members are working for open standards, third-party certification, and competitiveness in ITS and advance transportation telematics industry.
5.9 GHz DSRC…
One of the most exciting wireless technologies today is intended for transportation: 5.9GHz Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC). This short/medium-range data communications service supports public safety, mobility and private applications in vehicle-to-roadside and vehicle-to-vehicle environments. Development is being led by USDOT as part of a program called Connected Vehicle, provides unique performance characteristics in circumstances where high data security and data rates, minimized latency in the communication link, and isolating relatively small communication zones are important.
And Certification
DSRC is central but it is not the only wireless transportation technology based on open standards. Though there are several, their common denominator is that any organization can build devices based on the standard. This is crucial if the technology is intended to be supplied by multiple vendors and/or deployed nationally, where it must interoperate across regions, individual vehicles and enabled devices regardless of location or who made the device.
This can only be accomplished via an independent third-party certification of standards compliance and interoperability.
This is what OmniAir provides – it is a unique forum whose members are defining the interoperability certification programs for transportation technologies and what that critical interpretation of ‘compliance’ means for all stakeholders. OmniAir’s work increases assurance for those who want interoperability and wish to procure and deploy devices and systems with confidence.