An Automotive Side-View System Based on Ethernet and IP

Emerging driver assistance systems pose new requirements on the communication protocols. This is especially true for assistance systems based on cameras as sensors. This paper discusses the challenges of such systems using the Side View system, which uses five cameras as input, as an example. Standard and potential communication protocols are evaluated with respect to these challenges in this paper. The paper argues why Ethernet and IP form a suitable basis for new driver assistance systems and describe a first prototypical implementation of the Side View system.