5G-Enabled Vehicular Networks V2x - Iteris - Oregon ODOT

Update 27 December 2017
https://medium.com/mtracey/new-york-state-to-motorists-all-your-info-are-belong-to-us-b8224e2e22a9
License plate readers at choke points that cannot be easily avoided.  In Bend there is a camera at the Portland Ave. Bridge.  It is there to record "vehicle traffic counts".   A bike rider was killed at the intersection of Wall St. ans Portland Ave this year.  Once again ODOT, Bend said these cameras do not record or store video images. The Bend Police Dept. said the same.  These cameras are claimed to only detect vehicle presence at the stop line because when there are snow conditions the in ground detectors already there do not detect vehicle presence?  That is a very weak cover story demonstrating lack of credible imagination. 

My grandson celebrated his 17 birthday yesterday.  After the party he and his friends went camping.  Nest year he will be 18 and will have graduated from High School the previous month.  He will know where he is going to college but not what he will do in the future.  Just like so many college bound in his cohort he is looking at liberal arts to see and figure out the path to take.

Maybe the sooner the better to get a head start!:  "What is the new "Plastics"?


Iteris: https://www.iteris.com/

Iteris rep for Washington and Oregon: http://www.westernsystems-inc.com/

Western Systems Inc. Oregon office:  http://listings.findthecompany.com/l/22235114/Western-Systems-Inc-in-Clackamas-ORhttp://listings.findthecompany.com/l/22235114/Western-Systems-Inc-in-Clackamas-OR

Iteris Ped Trax: https://www.iteris.com/products/pedestrian-and-cyclist/pedtrax

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20040622005256/en/Iteris-Awarded-Major-Contract-City-Houston-Vantage:  "Vantage is one of the leading vehicle detection systems in the country. It is a non-intrusive video-based system used to replace in-pavement inductive loops for traffic signal control and traffic data collection applications. The Vantage systems are used to optimize the operation of traffic signals, reducing delays and congestion for the motoring public. Vantage video images can also be transmitted to remote traffic control centers for surveillance or homeland security applications." 

ODOT tracking cellphone data for motorists' real-time traffic info:

http://www.ktvz.com/news/odot-tracking-driver-cellphones-data-for-real-time-traffic-info/568145151 

Reading between the lines of the ODOT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Operations Centers at this link: http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Maintenance/pages/ITS-Opertions.aspx it appears that it may be the state agency directly linked to Iteris, perhaps via an Iteris product vendor such as Western Systems Inc.  The last line of the ODOT link is the tell:   "Provide operational support to the field using intelligence gathering tools such as cameras, road and weather information systems, traffic flow metering and other ITS devices."

Comments from LTE4G demonstrate tech knowledge on this matter as well as responses to LTE4G comments.  5G is coming along with V2X Vehicle to InfraStucture and that raises serious serious privacy concerns with back door entry via public safety and benefit justification that feed information to repositories for multi purpose data mining.  Is Central Oregon such a backwater place receiving little attention that it is the back door to a larger scheme of things?

I would like to join anyone with the tech knowledge (there is much of it in Bend) to see the various potential doors to be opened by this Intelligent Transportation System and investigate it to discover what those doors may be or are in fact already open and being exploited. 

This thing smells...funny...Pinging cell phones for proximity or triangulation?  Where can any company other than those authorized entities in the cell phone communication business or law enforcement, Homeland Security or the military get a device to do that?   Evidently, ODOT is added to that list?  

Regional ITS Architecture City of Bend ref to Iteris  pdf

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-hirsch-530a875 Bend Oregon Traffic Operations Engineer - Region 4 at Oregon Department of Transportation
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.08628.pdf

Peter Murphy ODOT Region 4: http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Regions/Pages/Region-Contacts.aspx

highway vehicle traffic control information system cell phone
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Maintenance/Pages/ITS-Operations.aspx

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-rules-intelligent-transportation-systems-advance-homeland-security-and-traveler

https://www.fastcompany.com/1678354/the-traffic-problems-that-will-disappear-when-vehicles-can-talk-to-each-other

Car to X, Vehicle to X, Bike to X:

https://www.daimler.com/innovation/digitalization/connectivity/connected-infrastructure-car-to-x.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/street-smarts/car-to-x-communication-autonomous-vehicle-technology-article-1.2856584

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-everything

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular_communication_systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Transportation_Systems_Institute

https://blog.nxp.com/automotive/hacker-vs-auto-industry-the-autonomous-car-industry-on-tackling-security-issues

https://paultan.org/2017/06/30/motorcycle-bike-to-vehicle-b2v-comms-system-proposed-provides-collision-detection-and-warnings/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(company)

http://movenergy.net/volkswagen-to-start-fitting-vehicles-with-pwlan-technology-as-standard-from-2019-on-for-v2x-communication/

http://www.densocorp-na.com/news/31424-2/

https://www.flogao.com.br/girresearch/blog/5727

https://www.astri.org/news/breakthrough-demonstration-of-cellular-v2x-technology-in-hong-kong/

Where to eat somebodies lunch in the food chain of V2X?  Look at all the engineers that are going to build it: http://www.v2vjobs.com Software Engineers.  Like the engineers that designed cars, planes and trains and their related infra structure in the Industrial Age.  The Industrial Age is still with us but now managed by the Information Age.  Designed by genius, operated by idiots.  The middle person that promotes and markets the product of genius to those that are end users are the ones that make the big bucks.

My reply in the comments section of: http://www.ktvz.com/news/odot-tracking-driver-cellphones-data-for-real-time-traffic-info/568145151

John:

This link from 4 years ago: https://www.ncta.com/platform/broadband-internet/how-google-tracks-traffic/ explains that Google gets its traffic information from Google Map App Users. Four years down the road from the time the link was published has probably added much more to what the App does. The App "phones home" to Google the user's location. All users sees their own location moving in real time on the map. So does Google. It is an opt in or out setting by the user. The big difference in ODOT plan is that all cell phones are monitored by pinging. No opt in or out.  It is painless, few will know it is happening.  That is why it will happen.

This link from dated yesterday shows how far and how fast tracking traffic by cell phones phoning home has traveled down the fast lane: http://www.androidauthority.com/navigation-wars-google-maps-vs-waze-vs-apple-maps-783994/. Everybody is doing it with an App a user installs that phones home.

ODOT might use a 5G short range system to ping every passing cell phone with a 5G receiver. That receiver would have to transmit to a longer haul established cell phone system. It is not a new idea but one that was was planned 4 years ago: https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-rules-intelligent-transportation-systems-advance-homeland-security-and-traveler.

This is not tin foil hat stuff.  It is factual.  Happening now.  I am not a tech expert and wish some experts in town would chime in on this.

This is tinfoil hat:  The system needs to be lab tested.  What better controlled scenario testing might there be but masses of people going to a single place at a given time to discover bugs and demonstrate system capabilities?  It is like masses of people entering a stadium to test facial recognition cameras going in and out to learn how many match up.

Solar eclipse?

If that wild and crazy thought is true there must be near field 5G cell pingers set up in advance on the routes to Madras.  They will be visible.  Range in the unlicensed spectrum is 300 ft.  Probably restricted to the highway right of way.  Installation on private property is not likely.  Probably mounted on something high enough to be physically not accessible.  A long haul connection over existing cell phone towers would obviously be required to pass on content collected be a 5G spectrum device. This might be the way it works.

If you travel to Madras in a tinfoil hat for the eclipse then look for them!  Take a picture because they might not be there a week later.  Or:  Maybe they will be the first permanent Central Oregon installation of an expansion of the ODOT plan?

An additional comment submitted to the prior KTVZ  link:
Regarding passengers with cell phones in the same car: Iteris iPeMS system has the ability to do HOV Analysis. It is a software feature, probably not an equipment feature offered at this link: https://www.Iteris.com/products/performance-analytics/ipems. Obviously easy to match multiple cell phones to the same moving/stationary vehicles to tell how many are in the vehicle. Over a time line it would reveal entry/exit times of passengers and location of entry/exit but only on a monitored stretch of roadway.  Maybe important for a public conveyance independent of any HOV association.  Interesting!  I wonder if Iteris has thought of this as an added feature?  But probably not identifiable to individual ID (unless matched to an unamed bigger collective mass data repository for data mining) of a specific cell phone.  Good point on the frequency of transmitting if the signal is strong.

Iteris has a log in resource center available for public entry via signing up ID and password. "Consultant" worked for me. It has detailed information regarding their products beyond what is offered at the corporate site. https://www.iteris.com/support. Vantage Velocity (probably the ODOT purchase?) The Velocity software operates entirely on Wifi and Bluetooth detection of MAC Address.

Bend Oregon ITS Plan: http://www.bendoregon.gov/home/showdocument?id=4575  2005

"ODOT operates and maintains all of the traffic signals in the Bend area through agreements with local agencies4."

"The majority of traffic signals in the Bend Metropolitan use inductive loops for vehicle detection. However, there are four different manufacturers of video detection equipment in use including Peek, Traficon, Autoscope, and Iteris. The intersection
of 3rd Street/Butler Market Road uses Peek video detection. The
City of Bend has installed Autoscope video detection at 27th Street/Forum Drive and 27th Street/Bear Creek Road. ODOT has installed Iteris video detection at the Parkway/Empire off-ramp intersection. ODOT has also installed Traficon video detection equipment at the intersections of 3rd Street/Highway 20, Highway 97/Cooley Road, and Highway 97/Robal Lane."
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"ODOT currently operates a Transportation Operations Center (TOC) in the Oregon State Department of Transportation building. The Transportation Operation Center in Bend serves many functions. A summary of the primary functions performed by the operators is provided below." 

"ODOT currently operates six automatic traffic recorders (ATR), independent of traffic signals, in the Bend area to collect volume, speed and occupancy data. Four ATRs are located on Highway 97, with one located between Redmond and Bend, two located on the Bend Parkway, and one located south of Bend. One ATR is located on Century Drive between Bend and Mt. Bachelor. The sixth ATR is located on Highway 20 east of Bend.

In addition, ODOT and the City of Bend collect vehicle volume information from system detectors at many traffic signals in the City of Bend. To upload the count information, ODOT uses the TransLink closed loop signal control software and must dial-in to the individual intersections to access the count data."

Deschutes County Transportation Plan Update 2012:  
https://www.deschutes.org/cd/page/transportation-planning
https://www.deschutes.org/sites/default/files/fileattachments/community_development/page/738
/transportation_plan_table_of_contents.pdf 
1https://weblink.deschutes.org/public/Browse.aspx?dbid=db&startid=6052&cr=1

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Carlsbad-License-Plate-Readers-Controversial-466647103.html 

Fourteen intersections in the city are now equipped with 50 license plate readers as part of the Carlsbad Police Department’s efforts to help reduce property thefts that have been on the rise the past two years.