Funded within the European Green Cars Initiative PPP (www.green-cars-initiative.eu), EcoGem aims at providing efficient ICT-based solutions to sustainable mobility by designing and developing a Fully Electric Vehicle (FEV)-oriented highly-innovative Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), equipped with suitable monitoring, learning, reasoning and management capabilities that will help increase the FEV’s autonomy and energy efficiency.

THE PROJECT

EcoGem’s view is that the success and user acceptability of Fully Electric Vehicles will predominantly depend on their electrical energy consumption rate and the corresponding degree of autonomy that they can offer. FEVs must provide their drivers with the highest possible autonomy, as well as with a high degree of reliability and robustness in terms of energy performance. EcoGem argues that appropriate innovative ICT solutions must be pursued and adopted to assist the driver in dealing with such energy-related issues and strengthen FEVs’ autonomy and reliability.

EcoGem’s key-objective is to integrate intelligence and learning functionalities to on-board ADAS for FEVs, enabling autonomous as well as interactive learning through V2X interfacing. This learning process will eventually render each EcoGem FEV capable of autonomously classifying routes according to their degree of congestion, enabling energy-driven route planning optimisation. The EcoGem ADAS will additionally cater for the complete planning of the vehicle’s recharging strategy. This optimisation process will typically include automated battery monitoring and various levels of pro-activeness, optimised scheduling according to several parameters (battery levels, energy consumption rate, desired destination, present location, daytime, traffic, user agenda, etc.), and real-time booking of recharging points.

EcoGem architecture will integrate both infrastructure-side and vehicle-side systems and services. The following picture provides a summary view of the high-level EcoGem Concept Architecture.

CONSORTIUM

A consolidated research group with a renowned academic and industrial profile.

• TEMSA GLOBAL (TK)
• PININFARINA SPA (IT)
• PTV, PLANUNG TRANSPORT VERKEHR (DE)
• EUVE, EUROPEAN VIRTUAL ENGINEERING FUNDACION (ES)
• HI IBERIA INGENIERIA Y PROYECTOS (ES)
• UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD (GB)
• INSTYTUT TRANSPORTU SAMOCHODOWEGO (PL)
• ICCS, INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION & COMPUTER SYSTEMS (GR)
• COSMOTE KINITES TILEPIKOINONIES (GR)
• ALGOWATT SPA (IT)
• NAVTEQ (NL)