Transportation Group Briefs FCC on 'Trusted' Communications in 5.9 GHz

The OmniAir Consortium briefed FCC engineers and Wireless and Public Safety bureau staff on efforts to enable “trusted communications” for vehicle-to-everything services in the 5.9 GHz band, said a filing posted Friday in docket 19-138. “OmniAir described how its Certification and Conformance Testing Program for V2X radio devices helps to realize these ‘trusted communications’ between the roadside infrastructure, vehicles and other transportation users to enhance public safety,” the consortium said: OmniAir discussed “specifics of the certification and testing program, including what standards are tested against, the tested attributes of V2X radio devices and the role of FCC equipment authorization.” The group represents companies and testing labs in the intelligent transportation space.