Bluetooth for ITS?

In this paper the suitability of the Bluetooth (BT) technology for the provision of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) services is investigated. The results of an experimental testbed, realized in order to assess the BT coverage in the typical operating conditions for this, kind of services, are presented; moreover the ability of the BT modulation/demodulation techniques to provide suitable levels of bit error rate in the presence of multipath fading as well as the effects of vehicle speed, is also investigated by means of both analytical considerations and an experimental test-bed. Furthermore, in order to understand whether a communication can be successfully established during the time interval in which a vehicle remain within the coverage area of the service, a simulative approach has been adopted to derive the statistics of the connection set up delay between two BT units.