A Low Cost and Simple Approach for Driver Navigation

Hugh Agnew, Vincent Geake and Colin Beatty

Abstract:	After a decade of commercial development, the current generation of in-car navigation systems have failed to convince consumers of their value, despite commercial and environmental requirements to route traffic more efficiently and make better use of the road infrastructure. In-car systems currently operate as stand-alone units with the entire system integrated into the vehicle, entailing an upfront cost and a consumer’s commitment to a specific technology system. An alternative system is proposed based on the ‘client – server’ relationship, with the complex data gathering and analysis performed at a central facility and the results delivered to consumers by mobile telecommunication networks. This concentrates the investment at the server, and allows the consumer a pay-per-use service. The technology in the various components of the consumer equipment is changing rapidly, and incompatible standards will continue to co-exist between and within countries for at least the next five years. This diversity means vehicle manufacturers are faced with difficult decisions when integrating equipment into vehicles, since technology lifetime is very much shorter than vehicle lifetime. A robust client-server architecture allows some of the technology variation to be handled at the server. The sophistication of services available to the consumer will evolve as technology permits, and it is important to implement an architecture which will allow systems a seamless transition between levels of service possible with different technologies.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (2001) June 11 - 13, 2001 Albuquerque, NM
Pages:	397 - 401
Cite this article:	Agnew, Hugh, Geake, Vincent, Beatty, Colin, "A Low Cost and Simple Approach for Driver Navigation," Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (2001), Albuquerque, NM, June 2001, pp. 397-401.
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