GRCBox: Extending Smartphone Connectivity in Vehicular Networks

The low penetration of connectivity-enabled OBUs is delaying the deployment of Vehicular Networks (VNs), and therefore the development of Vehicular Delay Tolerant Network (VDTN) applications, among others. We propose GRCBox, an architecture based on RaspberryPi devices that allows integrating smartphones in VNs. GRCBox combines several SW modules to provide ad-hoc and multi-interface connectivity to smartphones. Using GRCBox each application can choose the interface for its data flows, which increases flexibility and will allow developers to easily implement applications based on ad-hoc connectivity, such as VDTN applications. .

• Paper describing the project
• GRCBox disk image, version 0.1 - to be used with a 16GB SD memory card
• Github page of the project
• Wiki of the project