The VehicularLab participated at this year's edition of the ICT Spring event held in Luxembourg, June 19th and 20th, 2013.

This was the first time that a department of SnT was represented at a ICT expo. Our booth was located next to start-up companies, the idea was to present innovative research concepts that have the potential to become spin-off projects in the future. More specifically, the VehicularLab presented solutions on how to improve mobility and reduce energy consumptions using new technologies.

This event enabled us to identify new industrial partners and get valuable feedback to direct our research activities towards the needs of the companies active in that area.

Smart technologies to avoid traffic jams and to increase the cruising range of electro cars are developed and tested by scientists of the University of Luxembourg. Within the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg, research groups equipped a Renault Twizy car and a Smart car (see photo) with high-tech devices to develop sensors and software tools for the automobile of the future.

From now on the fancy looking test vehicles can be seen on the roads of Luxembourg, easily detectable, because of their very special design.

The mission of the VehicularLab at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg, is to explore new services and applications that rely on new vehicular technologies. The VehicularLab is part of the Security and Networking Research Group (Secan-Lab).

The group has multiple objectives, covering the entire spectrum of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Research topics include vehicular and sensor networks, mobile computing, telematics, embedded systems security and design, and ITS applications (e.g. Autonomous Driving, Traffic Flow Optimisation).