Version: 2008

Indy 500 goes Wi-Fi

Red Bull Cheever Racing cars round the corner together at Motegi in Japan. At this weekend's Indy 500, the cars will be outfitted with hardened, vibration- and heat-resistant Cisco Systems Mobile Access Routers. The routers will transmit data from the car's telemetry sensory systems over a local area Wi-Fi network.

Credit: Red Bull Cheever Racing

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Super Cooooooolllllllll
by OneWithTech May 26, 2005 9:31 AM PDT
Cudo's for Cisco Systems getting into the racing scene like this, and to see the technical progression of Wifi.
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Quite an achievement
by jamie.p.walsh May 26, 2005 10:25 AM PDT
Wi-fi networks have never been really tested in an environment quite like this. It's one thing to do Wi-fi at that speed with ONE access point. It's quite another to have multiple access points and have the network handle the handoffs that would occur in this scenario. I'm curious as to how many sensors the car has, how frequently each of them polls their respective system, and what metrics are being used.

The platform that this entire system is written in would be an impressive thought as well! Java, C#, VB?
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Cisco Wi-Fi in race cars
by ls3129 May 27, 2005 4:55 AM PDT
It was inevitable. In the future, you will see racing cars go faster and faster now that the engineers in the pit are receiving real time data on the car's performance.
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