Summary:

It is the main goal of the Caring Cars project to increase car safety by enabling wellness applications in an automotive environment. To achieve this, the project will realise an open automotive infrastructure, the basis of which will be formed by a sensor network in cooperation with a car gateway. This sensor network will consist of the sensors already available in vehicles augmented with new sensors. The Car gateway will establish a connection with the external world signalling for instance emergency services. In this way it will be possible to improve car safety and thus reduce the costs of transportation. By adding external communication to the infrastructure envisioned by the project it will also become possible to use the same infrastructure to support health care applications.

This project has partners from both industry and academia to form a well balanced consortium that has experience in providing car manufacturers and contains technical expertise on the relevant technical fields. The consortium will use this experience and knowledge to lift car safety to the next level.