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Francesco Di Corpo
An Integrated Navigation/Communication System
Meeting the Requirements of the e-112 European
Directive for in car Emergency Call
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Outline
Introducing Tema.mobility Consortium
Pan-European vs Private eCall
The Tema.mobility Solution: Architecture Description
Advantages and Test Results
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Introducing Tema.mobility
o Magneti Marelli and Telecom Italia founded at the end of
2007 the Tema.mobility consortium with the specific
mandate of exploiting all the possible benefits from the
integration of advanced COM and NAV technologies
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o Activities related to satellite
navigation are carried out with the
support of a well-know R&D center
o Contributors to this work:
• Graziella Spinelli – Tema.mobility
• Stefano Bozzo – Magneti Marelli
• Fabrizio Dominici, Paolo Mulassano - ISMB
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TeMa Mobility Areas of Competence
Vehicle Tracking
Suite
Solution for vehicle tracking
and the main parameters. It
mainly address:
Insurances society: enabling
improved insurance services
(e.g. PAYD)
Cargo Suite
Solutions for management ,
optimization and monitoring of
fleets dedicated to goods
transportation
Mission Planning and
management
Rental cars: fleet
management solutions
Route optimization and
service improvement
Special Fleet: solutions for
fleet management for public
services (e.g. Taxi) and public
safety (e.g. ambulances)
check of the operational
vehicle parameter and of the
Society for public activities
(e.g. plumbers): solution for
workforce management
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Driver support....
Automotive Suite
B2B solutions dedicated to
car makers for the
management of services to
the customers (e.g. SOS
Emergency, Intelligent
maintenance Info Portal),
using an infobrokering
platform able to integrate
contents and services coming
from different providers.
Provides the management of
the front-end process (e.g.
CRM, Billing, Reporting)
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Urban Mobility Suite
Solution dedicated to the
improvement of mobility in
urban areas
Traffic monitoring and
optimization
Monitoring and control to
limited areas
Optimization of the parking
management
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The eCall Paradigm
The single European emergency number 112 was introduced to enable citizens to
call the emergency services by using one and the same number anywhere in the
European Union [Council Decision of July 29, 1991 (91/396/EEC) and Universal
Service Directive of March 7, 2002 (Directive 2002/22/EC)]
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eCall is the term for a pan-European system for emergency calls in vehicles using
the emergency telephone number 112 in case of accident
the introduction of this system with full European coverage has been foreseen in
2010
emergency Call (eCall) in the context of road traffic can be described as a system
to provide notification to Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP), by means of
wireless communications, that a vehicle has crashed and to provide coordinates
with a defined minimum set of data
1 112 voice Call
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MSD
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Pan-European eCall
Source: Björn Steiger Stiftung
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Private eCall
TeMa Solutions
Source: Björn Steiger Stiftung
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Overview of System Architecture
SMS [MSD]
Network
TBOX
VT&T Platform
Telco Service
Exposure
GPS
SMS
[Minimum Set of Data]
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Client Web
To access the
MSD messages
PSAP
GSM Voice Call
Emergency event (Trigger):
- Manual (emergency button)
- Automatic (CAN bus/Shock Sensor)
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MSD Analysis
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On Board Unit – OBU: Marelli’s T-BOX
CAN Bus
GPS
Audio
GSM Modem
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T-Box On Board Unit
Telematic-Box key features
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Quad-band GPRS MODEM
GPS high sensitivity indoor
Rechargeable Backup battery
XYZ-Axis Acceleration Sensor with g-Select
CAN network
Digital I/O
Power supply: 9 - 40V
MicroC/OS II Operating system
Serial port RS232
ad-hoc firmware for eCall management
• Voice call management
• PDU (8 bit) message SMS-C
Test done in cooperation with Björn Steiger Stiftung Service
Institute managing several safety answering
points in Germany
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Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)
Emergency Position
Minimum Set of Data
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Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)
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Key Features:
o Usage of the Telco Service Exposure (TSE) platform for SMS
reception
o Management of the Minimum Set of Data (MSD) compliant to the
eCall standard
o Vehicle information display
o Vehicle position and data visualized on several cartographic
tools and systems
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Advantages of Proposed Solution
o No central eCall PSAP necessary (but possible)
o Fast solution introduction, no specific infrastructures
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Open and neutral technology (SMS, USSD, WLAN etc.)
Car manufactures can select which protocol and
encryption of data they prefer
High reliability (currently proved on the field and
massive tests)
Redundancy through multi-access possibilities for the
PSAPs
Possibility to connect the system to other backend
applications
Low cost
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Test & Results
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o Tests of the developed prototype have been conducted in Turin by
Tema.mobility and ISMB with the support of Telecom Italia and
Magneti Marelli
o Further tests with T-BOX have been done in the framework of a
cooperation with the Björn Steiger Stiftung (BSS)
o BSS organized massive tests for the private eCall using an infrastructure
that relies on a PSAP connected to two SMS-C gateways:
• 23 European Country crossed;
• More than 300000 SMS triggered during 9 months tests;
• Short delivery time for MSD: 63% t<8s, 11% 8s<t<15s …
First test
campaign
Private eCall is a reliable and flexible solution
o Important to have an eCall solution applicable for all European PSAPs
independent on the technological standard and financial situation
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Contact Information
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Thank You !
Francesco Di Corpo
francesco.dicorpo@telecomitalia.it
Tel: +39 011 2288120
Mobile: +39 3351357750
http://www.tema-mobility.eu
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