The present invention provides methods and apparatus for gathering location information of a vehicular user equipment (VUE). In one aspect of the present invention, a method for gathering location information in a wireless access system supporting vehicle to everything (V2X) service, the method performed by a vehicular user equipment (VUE) and comprising steps of receiving a Tracking Service Request message including a V2X tracking service indication field indicating tracking service is triggered or not and an identifier of the VUE; and transmitting a Tracking Service Response message including location information of the VUE in response to the Tracking Service Request message, wherein the location information includes a location information field indicating a location coordinate of the VUE, a time field indicating current time and time zone information corresponding to the location information field, and a fuel level field indicating fuel level of the VUE.

The present invention provides methods for supporting a public transportation by using a Vehicle to Everything (V2X) at a Passenger Control Center (PCC) in a wireless access system. One of the methods comprising steps of tracking taxis in a coverage of the PCC in order to support the public transportation; transmitting a first Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) or Vehicle to Network (V2N) message triggering a public transportation service to the tracked taxis; receiving a second V2I or V2N message from one or more taxis including location information of each of the taxis; collecting traffic situation information on an area including the PCC; deciding candidate taxis based on the location information and the traffic situation information; and transmitting a third V2I or V2N message indicating pick up passengers at a specific taxi stand to the candidate taxis, wherein each of the taxis is a vehicle user equipment (VUE).

A wireless coupling for simultaneously communicating with a vehicle and feeding from said vehicle an electronic device disposed in a vehicle interior part disposed inside the vehicle, by means of an NFC technology. The coupling includes a first-end powering transceiver located in a fixed position within the vehicle, having: a connection component electrically connectable to a wiring system of the vehicle, a first end ECU, first-end RF transceiving component, a first-end EMC filter, and a first-end antenna showing certain first-end impedance Zx. It also includes a second-end powered transceiver configured to be disposed in a vehicle part in which the electronic device is disposed. The second-end powered transceiver includes second-end RF transceiving component and a second-end antenna showing certain second-end impedance Zy. The wireless coupling includes a matching circuit with an impedance Zc and connected to the first-end or the second-end antenna, this first-end or second-end antenna having a first-end or a second-end antenna design impedance Z.sub.2da, respectively more inductive than the corresponding theoretical first-end or second-end antenna impedance Z.sub.2ta, such that the combination of the design first-end or design second-end antenna impedance Z.sub.2da and the impedance Z.sub.C of the matching circuit matches the theoretical first-end or the theoretical second-end antenna impedance Z.sub.2ta.

A vehicle terminal includes a data collector for collecting driving information of a vehicle, a first communicator for performing wireless communication with other vehicle terminals, a second communicator for performing wireless communication with roadside terminals positioned at roadsides, and a controller for generating corresponding vehicle transmission data using the driving information, wherein the controller compares other vehicle transmission data provided from the other vehicle terminals and the corresponding vehicle transmission data with each other and transmits identification information assigned to the corresponding vehicle transmission data through the second communicator when an error between the other vehicle transmission data and the corresponding vehicle transmission data is within an allowable error range.

An intelligent transportation system (ITS 400) for a vehicle (200) is described. The ITS includes a packet count estimator (420) arranged to receive broadcast ITS transmissions from a plurality of neighbouring vehicles and provide an indication of a number of packets received from the plurality of neighbouring vehicles, where the indication includes at least an information length and a data rate of the received packets; a fair resource allocator circuit (410) operably coupled to the packet count estimator and configured to adjust at least one ITS broadcast transmission parameter of the ITS based on the indication of the number of received packets; and a transmitter operably coupled to the fair resource allocator circuit (410) and configured to broadcast at least one ITS message using the adjusted at least one ITS broadcast transmission parameter.

A controller for managing data demand to and from an asset is described. In particular, the controller is configured to obtain streams of local data from one or more local data sources, said local data providing local information of a current condition of the asset. Once received, the controller determines one or more potential future conditions of the asset based on the current condition of the asset and on changes in the local data. A bandwidth requirement is then determined to obtain streams of remote data from one or more remote data sources potentially relevant to the one or more potential future conditions. This bandwidth requirement is then compared to an available bandwidth; and a priority order determined for obtaining the remote data if the available bandwidth is below the bandwidth requirement.

Optimized location information is provided for a location based service. An event is detected which is indicative of an error in the location based service which degrades the performance of the location based service. A cause of the error is determined, and resolution of the error is initiated based on the determined cause.

A method of communication between vehicle-mounted communication equipment or a vehicle and a plurality of roadside units includes: in a first step, a first vehicle communication message is transmitted from a first roadside unit to the vehicle-mounted communication equipment or to the vehicle, wherein the first vehicle communication message contains a first piece of token information; and in a second step, which follows the first step, a second vehicle communication message is transmitted from the vehicle-mounted communication equipment or the vehicle to a second roadside unit, wherein the second vehicle communication message either comprises the first piece of token information or wherein the second vehicle communication message comprises a second piece of token information that is generated or modified by the vehicle-mounted communication equipment or in the vehicle on the basis of the first piece of token information received previously.

Described is a shared vehicle positioning method and apparatus, and a terminal device. The positioning method comprises: detecting if there is a locking action of a current shared vehicle; if yes, acquiring current position information of a terminal device using the current shared vehicle; and uploading the current position information to a server so that the server determines a locking position of the current shared vehicle based on the current position information. Using the positioning method of the present invention, a shared vehicle without a GPS positioning module can be positioned. In this way, the hardware cost and power consumption of the shared vehicle can be reduced, the service time of the battery of the shared vehicle can be extended, and the followed maintenance cost of the shared vehicle can be reduced as well.

Flight based infrared imaging systems and related techniques, and in particular UAS based thermal imaging systems, are provided to improve the monitoring capabilities of such systems over conventional infrared monitoring systems. An infrared imaging system is configured to compensate for various environmental effects (e.g., position and/or strength of the sun, atmospheric effects) to provide high resolution and accuracy radiometric measurements of targets imaged by the infrared imaging system. An infrared imaging system is alternatively configured to monitor and determine environmental conditions, modify data received from infrared imaging systems and other systems, modify flight paths and other commands, and/or create a representation of the environment.