VeST-AVe - Test and Demonstration Site for CCAM

VeNIT Lab | VeST-AVe

VeNIT Lab offers a highly capable proving ground (VeST-AVe) for a wide range of autonomous mobility, CCAM and C-ITS (Cooperative and Intelligent Transportation Systems) use cases. Currently, the facility serves for a variety of Horizon Europe and National projects, and provides a testing ground for solutions of various companies from industry; as it enabled successful testing and demonstration of many solutions in the past.

VeST-AVe features a versatile testing environment incorporating various road types with changing conditions, supported by advanced equipment and software tools for generating test scenarios. It facilitates comprehensive monitoring and analysis of test results while enabling deployment of diverse C-ITS services within the edge-cloud computing continuum, incorporating edge devices, GPU nodes, and cloud resources. The test and demonstration infrastructure currently facilitates the following equipment for enabling deployment of different use cases, applications, and services:

• DSRC Roadside Units (RSUs) and Onboard Units (OBUs)

• C-V2X RSUs and OBUs

• Autonomous driving test vehicle

• Teleoperation equipment

• Stationary 270° wide range, and standard FHD cameras

• Stationary infrared cameras

• Wi-Fi 6 access points

• Traffic lights with re-configurable controller

• Low-energy GPU nodes suitable for edge computing

• High-end GPU nodes suitable for cloud computing

• Fiber ethernet infrastructure

The equipment availability enables realizing a wide range of applications within a controlled environment for testing and demonstrations. Including:

• Large-scale testing/demonstration of C-ITS and autonomous vehicle scenarios, using virtually generated traffic, in a real-virtual world hybrid testing environment, powered by vTRIx

• Safety, security, and reliability testing of a wide range of autonomous and connected vehicle applications within real, virtual or hybrid testing environment

• Deployment and testing of services within edge-cloud computing continuum, with ability to demonstrate their interaction with real physical systems

• Development, testing, and demonstration of edge-cloud computing continuum management and orchestration software

• Deployment of traffic monitoring and management tools, and integrating with different signalization, electronic signage, and communication equipment. This is achieved thanks to the software stack that includes many advanced software such as CCEMP, and CCSP.

• Security and reliability testing of a variety of intelligent transportation systems’ services and infrastructure designs; such as topologies for interfacing control rooms with the existing infrastructure, or centralized signalization management.

• Testing of network topologies customized for different use cases, thanks to the high fidelity network monitoring ability powered by WATMON.