Method of reducing a total computation capacity that needs to be kept, vehicle-to-X communication apparatus and use of the vehicle-to-X communication apparatus

A vehicle-to-X communication apparatus for keeping a computation utilization of a total computation capacity in a vehicle system of a motor vehicle in vehicle-to-X communication, the vehicle-to-X communication apparatus comprising:

• at least one electronic computation device;
• an electronic storage device storing a multiplicity of software modules;
• and
• a transceiver device;
• wherein the electronic computation device is configured to:
• execute the multiplicity of software modules stored in the electronic storage device on received data received through the transceiver device, determine a consumption of computation utilization of computation capacity by at least one of the multiplicity of software modules in performing data processing of the received data,
• determine a consumption of computation utilization of computation capacity by at least another one of the multiplicity of software modules in performing input data checking of the received data at a periodic interval of timing,
• estimate the computation utilization of the total computation capacity based on a sum of the consumption of computation utilization of computation capacity during the data processing of the data processing of the received data and the input data checking of the received data,
• control the periodic interval for performing input data checking by one of:
• a) maintaining the periodic interval of the timing when the computation utilization of the total computation capacity is less than a threshold of computation utilization, to maintain the computation utilization of computation capacity consumed by performing the input data checking, and
• b) increasing the periodic interval of the timing when the computation utilization of the total computation capacity is greater than the threshold of computation utilization, to reduce the computation utilization of computation capacity consumed by performing the input data checking, and
• stop, in response to a predefinable computation utilization being exceeded, the periodic interval of the timing of one or more input data checking processes when the one or more input data checking processes is triggered in an event-dependent basis, wherein the event-dependent basis is based on the vehicle-to-X communication between the motor vehicle and at least one pre-defined object in a predefined area around the motor vehicle.