The combined MK6 RSU (road-side unit) and OBU (on-board unit) offers the most comprehensive connectivity capability as standard features, including DSRC, C-V2X, LTE/5G and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth. The company, based in Australia, says that while Cohda’s V2X stack and applications are already the most widely deployed in the industry, the MK6 is the company’s most capable, most versatile and most powerful platform to date.
The MK6 features NXP Semiconductors’ RoadLink SAF5400 and SXF1800 chipsets, along with Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto 5G Modem-RF Platform. Importantly, last month, the MK6 obtained certification from the OmniAir Consortium and is the first C-V2X Road-Side Unit to be certified for deployment within the US by OmniAir. This follows certification from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US, CE in Europe, the UKCA in the United Kingdom, Canada’s ISED and South Korea’s KC. As a participant in the FCC Joint Waiver programme, Cohda was the first to receive the green light for C-V2X (B47) from the FCC for its original equipment products.
Cohda has also taken its MK6 technology underground, into the highly safety-aware deep mining sector. GPS does not penetrate underground but radio communication works. Hence, the MK6 technology is being used by mining companies for deployment on their mobile machinery – very often extremely large with very limited visibility for an operator.
Furthermore, says Andrea Ash, Cohda’s vice president of marketing, the technology has been adapted to fit into the headlamp of miners which allows mobile machine operators to also know when people are near machines.
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