SPAMM

The data which will be transported can be originated from vehicles of the public transport organizations (i.e. video image) as well as from trucks (tachograph data).

The research regarding this project will be two folded: on one side the mobile platform (size, processing power, security etc.) and on the other side the network (roaming over different networks, transparency, security etc.).

The Project

In all aspects of modern society, one can feel the need for real-time broadband communication. People are getting used to always available means of communication, both in human-to-human communication as well as in human-to-machine communication. Those means of communication are multi-disciplinary. One can think of the business traveler, who checks his email using a public hotspot in an airport while waiting for the check-in. Another example are the firefighters, who use a combination of GPRS and Wifi technology to check intervention plans while driving towards the incident.

SPAMM wants, on one side, to expand the applicability of always available broadband networks to two new groups of end-users: public transportation and truck companies. On the other side, SPAMM wants to introduce a new form of wireless networking, the mobile mesh technology, on a large scale. The goal of this new form of networking is to increase the availability of a wireless broadband network in city environments (urban canyon environments).