Standardisation

CEN TC 278 WG 15

The following standards have been submitted to EN Enquiry ballot at the beginning of January 2010. The Ballot will open on 18-02-2010 and will close on 18-07-2010

Pan European eCall Operating Requirements (Draft PrEN 16072) - The core operating requirements for the Pan-European eCall service defines the general functional and operational principles of the service

eCall High Level Application Requirements – HLAP (Draft PrEN 16062) – It specifies the protocols to put into effect the 'Pan European eCall- Operating requirements' using Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMN), and also identifies common elements that can be used in the link between third party services supporting eCall and 'Public Safety Answering Points'.

MSD (Draft PrEN 15722) - The MSD includes important information to help send the services to the site of the incident and to speed up the response. The MSD enables the PSAP operator to respond to the eCall even without a voice exchange.

The Third Party Support for eCall (TC 278 WI 00278244.6.34) has finalized its editing work at last CEN meeting on 20-21 January 2010 and the document will be submitted to EN Enquiry ballot. This standard specifies the generic operational requirements for an eCall variant which includes the transmission of data to a third party service provider or TPSP, and the establishment of a voice call with this TPSP.

ETSI MSG & 3GPP

ETSI-MSG and 3GPP has approved the core technical specifications defining the protocols
for sending the MSD from the vehicle to the PSAP operator. The solution agreed is that the data will be transmitted via an in-band modem along with the voice call. It is an open standard and there will be no licence fees for using the in-band modem for the eCall service.

3GPP approved the eCall discriminator (‘eCall flag’), included in Release 8 of the technical specifications with which the mobile telecommunications systems must comply. This discriminator will differentiate between 112 calls from mobile terminals and eCalls, and also between manual and automatically triggered eCalls.

The updated list of standards may be consulted here