What is PD CEN/TS 17642 about?
Within the context of 112-eCall (operating requirements defined in EN 16072), PD CEN/TS 17642 defines specifications for the provision of 112-eCall for regulated commercial vehicles, including rigid body trucks and variants thereof, prime mover and trailer combinations (sometimes called “semi’s”, road trains [one prime mover with multiple trailers]) and other regulated commercial vehicles (for example vans carrying medical supplies or radioactive material).
The work of CEN/TS 16405 is adopted and extended in PD CEN/TS 17642. (A revised version of CEN/TS 16405 will remain the principal reference document for the content and definition of the commercial vehicle optional additional data set).
As with the existing provisions for 112-eCall for Category M1/N1 vehicles, these are specified within the paradigm of being OEM fit equipment supplied with new vehicles.
PD CEN/TS 17642 specifies the requirements for the use of 112-eCall by a commercial vehicle prime mover /rigid body truck and defines the interface between the PSAPs and an external transport database.
PD CEN/TS 17642 defines how eCall for commercial vehicles is expected to interact with the future eFTI standards and the prerequisites for these standards to allow access to the relevant freight information for the PSAPSs in case of an eCall.
Note: The provision of eCall from IV located within trailers is not included in this document, but could be the subject of a further standards deliverable.
The scope of PD CEN/TS 17642 specification is limited to the provision of eCall from a commercial vehicle prime mover /rigid body truck) designed for conveying cargo. (UNECE Category N).
Who is PD CEN/TS 17642 for?
PD CEN/TS 17642 on Intelligent Transport Systems is useful for:
- Prime mover
- Transport facilitator
- Cargo industry
Why should you use PD CEN/TS 17642?
eCall is an emergency call generated either automatically via activation of in-vehicle sensors or manually by the vehicle occupants; which, when activated provides notification and relevant location information to the most appropriate Public Safety Answering Point, by means of mobile wireless communications networks, and carrying a defined standardized minimum set of data (MSD) notifying that there has been an incident.
A PSAP receives an eCall from a vehicle, the PSAP system will “intercept” the MSD and decode its contents for further use in the emergency process. As long as the information can be used directly (e.g., number of occupants, the direction of travel, last known location) this can be displayed to the operator. The basic MSD contains the VIN number that should be looked up using EUCARIS to get the most up to date vehicle registration information. If the MSD contains additional data, the PSAP system needs to apply the correct decoding template which results in either directly usable information (like the cargo information in Schema A) or information that again triggers a lookup, or both. PD CEN/TS 17642 lets you standardize the way cargo information can be retrieved from a remote source.
PD CEN/TS 17642 provides a legislative process to harmonize the electronic freight transport information (eFTI) and to provide the framework and a basic architecture for the exchange of freight transport information. This will help you to prepare the eCall interfaces for the new eFTI standards and for defining prerequisites for the eFTI standards that need to be fulfilled by eFTI to allow access to the necessary information for eCall.
However, PD CEN/TS 17642 enables you to access PSAPs to freight information about the loaded dangerous goods and follow the future eFTI standards to avoid the handling of several interfaces of authorities to freight data.
