Ottawa L5 Testing Facilities
Drive your CAV technology to the next level
Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are poised to revolutionize not only transportation but the way people live and work throughout the world. As technology, auto and transportation leaders around the world continue to evolve for a CAV-driven future, the testing and validation of CAV technologies is critical to ensuring the safe implementation of CAV innovations.
The Ottawa L5 test facilities offers world-class integrated testing grounds for the safe implementation of CAVs. On site, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) testing, validation and demonstration of technologies are enabled on both public and private test tracks, in Ottawa’s true four-season climate. The Ottawa L5 testing facilities are equipped with GPS (RTK), dedicated short range communications (DSRC), Wi-Fi, 4G/LTE and 5G telecommunications and networking infrastructure, making it the first integrated CAV test environment of its kind in North America.
L’installation d’essai privée d’Ottawa L5, la plus grande du genre au Canada, est située sur la Ferme de recherche de la Commission de la capitale nationale (CCN), sur un terrain privé de 1 866 acres entièrement clôturé et protégé par une barrière. Elle est équipée pour la conception et le développement sécuritaires et rapides des technologies de VCA au stade précommercial.
Survol aérien de la Ferme de recherche de la Ceinture verte de la CCN, où est située la piste d’essai privée de VCA privée d’Ottawa L5.
L’installation d’essai publique d’Ottawa L5, située dans le parc technologique de Kanata-Nord (le plus grand au Canada), permet la mise à l’essai des VCA sur des routes publiques, dans une infrastructure urbaine.
Démonstration d’un VA muni de BlackBerry QNX sur la piste d’essai de VCA publique d’Ottawa L5, octobre 2017.
Solution: Ottawa, with its distinct four seasons, provides particularly ideal inclement weather conditions, such as snow, ice, fog and high winds, for CAVs to be tested in.
Solution: Ottawa L5 network infrastructure promotes a multi-layered approach to identifying and analyzing cybersecurity threats to CAVs through a multi-level and controlled test environment.
Solution: Ottawa L5’s platform collects data from their sources (sensors, cars, cameras, etc.) and makes proprietary tools available for data analytics in real time for a plethora of use cases. The L5’s platform facilitates interoperability between different applications and data silos by adopting standardized interfaces and communication protocols.
Solution: Ottawa L5 facilities offer V2X connectivity for the validation of a variety of communication use cases, including Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (city) (V2I), and Vehicle-to-Network (V2N). The L5 test facilities also provide accurate and precise location information via GPS technology and sensors, thereby facilitating safe path maneuver testing for hidden objects.
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