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CURRENT INITIATIVES

OmniAir has a variety of initiatives that staff and members work on in response to requests from the Board of Directors or clients such as USDOT. Initiatives fall into four categories, all sharing the common theme of ‘DSRC,’ and supportive of OmniAir goals. Any OmniAir member may participate in any of the initiatives below. Please contact OmniAir for more information on existing initiatives or ideas for others that support the goals and objectives of the Consortium. Good ideas are welcome!

HARDWARE

5.9GHz DSRC Device Certification Program

Lead: Certification Committee

Overview: Create apparatus to provide an independent, third party certification of DSRC WAVE standards compliance to assure the user and integration community of DSRC integrity, performance, interoperability.
Status: First 5 tasks completed, 9 tasks submitted to USDOT in August 2009. Projected completion of program is 2011

OmniAir Certification Services Inc. (OCS)

Lead: Staff
Overview: A 501 c3 test and services provider independent from the OmniAir Consortium that will manage test centers, test apparatus and issue the OmniAir Certificate of Compliance.
Status: Bylaws approved June 2009; identifying board now; planned incorporation end of 2009.

APPLICATIONS

Electronic Payment Services National Interoperability Specification Development & Test

Lead: EPS Committee

Overview: EPSNIS – a set of interface control documents for transaction processing interoperability and competition in provision of payment services. The specification is being tested for both 915MHz & 5.9GHz systems to prove integrity in a colocation environment.
Status: Draft specification under review, testing begins fall 2009

IntelliDriveSM Payments Concept of Operations (USDOT)

Lead: BAH, EPS Committee

Overview: This concept of operations for national EPS for the ‘connected vehicle,’ focuses on above lane-level aspects of IntelliDriveSM payment architecture.

Status: Draft by September 2009; final deliverable October 2009

DEPLOYMENT

Denver 5.9GHz DSRC-based Deployment Proposal

Lead: Deployment Committee

Overview: Proposal to advance deployment of 5.9GHz DSRC in a metropolitan area – Denver. Theme is that 5.9 can uniquely contribute to safety, congestion, and traffic management needs and enable other communication protocols and services to work better

Status: First 5 tasks completed, 9 tasks submitted to USDOT in August

2009. Projected completion of program is 2011.
More on the Deployment Committee.

EDUCATION & OUTREACH

Papers, Presentations & Educational Materials

OmniAir staff and members write DSRC-related articles for leading magazines and journals and make presentations at major transportation community events year round. OmniAir also conducts educational workshops.

Find materials related to all of the above here.