Modeling for deployment techniques for intra-car wireless sensor networks

The paper discusses the deployment of wireless sensor networks for intra-car monitoring and control in various automotive application scenarios. Major challenges consist of enabling robust radio communication protocols for challenging environments like the car body and offering high confidence guarantees on timely data collection and quality. Simulation results are introduced and discussed for radio communication modeling and power efficiency of the sensing nodes. It is argued that by effective integration with existing subsystems by means of IPv6 based network architectures or CAN-enabled embedded gateways, these can bring benefits and open up the interconnection towards inter-car communication through higher level concepts up to vehicular sensor networks.