Section: New Results

Highlights of the Year

YoGoKo (http://www.yogoko.fr/ ), a startup company of RITS, was founded in 2014 by employees from three research institutes: Mines ParisTech, Telecom Bretagne and Inria. YoGoKo makes use of softwares developed in teams specialized in Internet technologies. RSM (Telecom Bretagne), CAOR (Mines ParisTech) and RITS (Inria) are research teams have been working together since 2006 on innovative communication solutions applied to Intelligent Transportation Systems. They contributed to several collaborative R& D projects related to ITS (CVIS, ITSSv6, GeoNet, DriveC2X, SCORE@F, …). In 2012, these laboratories engaged together into the development of a common demonstration platform which comprises connected vehicles (fleet of conventional vehicles from Mines ParisTech and fleet of autonomous vehicles from Inria), roadside equipments and cloud-based services. YoGoKo demonstration platform was finally revealed on Feb. 11 th 2014 during the Mobility2.0 event organized by the French Ministry of Transport. This successful demonstation and the extremely warmfull feedack gained at this occasion triggered the launch of YoGoKo as a company. YoGoKo develops innovative communication solutions for fixed and mobile multi-connected devices. The objective is to maintain secure and continuous connectivity with their communication peers, either in their immediate environment or a remote location (control centers or Internet hosts).