Wireless Audio Communication Network for In-Vehicle Access of Infotainment Services in Motorcycles

In this work we describe the realization of a wireless audio communication system that makes available to the driver and the passenger of a motorcycle a wide range of attractive audio services such as an intercom, listening to FM radio or navigational messages from a GPS navigator, placing phone calls by means of a cellular phone. The novelty and the key point of this wireless system is the multi-point Bluetooth audio network formed and managed by the audio communication unit placed on the vehicle. This unit acts as an audio access-point to which the users, equipped with standard Bluetooth headsets, independently connect, register and access the available audio services. The demonstrator realized is also described to show that the proposed system efficiently provides significant and new infotainment features to the motorcycle riders