Continental Automotive

V2X Communication

Overview
Hybrid V2X Platform
Cellular V2X Communication

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V2X Communication

Connected vehicles add a lot of comfort when it comes to state-of-the-art infotainment. But they also have the potential to make driving safer and more efficient by communicating directly with other vehicles, the infrastructure and the cloud. With Vehicle-to-X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communication, cars or commercial vehicles can exchange real-time traffic updates and road hazard information and enhance future safety assist functions.

Two Standards - One Architecture

DSRC and C-V2X Integration. Continental’s Hybrid V2X solution integrates technologies for 4G and 5G network access, with options for Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) or Cellular-V2X (C-V2X) communication. This helps vehicle manufacturers to overcome a big challenge, when deploying V2X on a global scale: Some regions use DSRC and others implement the Cellular-V2X standard. With our hybrid V2X solution, the same hardware and software platform can be used to support either communication standard, reducing cost and complexity for a global application of V2X communication.

Cellular V2X (Vehicle to Everything) communication has strong potential to become a key enabler for automated driving and intelligent mobility. C-V2X allows to communicate via the LTE and 5G mobile networks and, in the future, the 6G network. Cellular V2X is also designed to directly connect vehicles with each other as well as with the infrastructure and further road users. Even in areas without mobile network coverage, C-V2X communication allows an exchange of time sensitive and safety critical information, for example about warnings of potentially hazardous situations.