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Seminar in Moscow organized to coincide with the third informal working group session on accident emergency call systems.

Presentation on Japan’s HELPNET accident reporting and emergency response system.

Presentation outlining proposals to include performance testing of in-vehicle emergency call systems under frontal (or possibly UN R12 steering requirements) and side impact regulations.

Presentation on regulations and standards development related to the Russian ERA-GLONASS accident reporting and response system.

Presentation on the outcomes of a national meeting of German experts and stakeholders in AECS to discuss the proposed technical regulation for the type approval of in-vehicle systems.

Proposal for a testing and certification framework for the type approval of in-vehicle automated emergency call devices.

CLEPA positions on selected draft provisions of the proposed regulation on automated emergency call system devices.

Proposed mandate for the expert group working on regulatory provisions for in-vehicle automated accident emergency call devices.

European Commission proposals for changes to the text of the automatic emergency call systems/devices regulation under development. These changes focus mainly on the use of global navigation satellite systems and do not represent an endorsement of the rest of the text.

European Commission position stressing its requirement that the proposed automatic emergency call system regulation cover and include the EGNOS (EU Satellite Augmentation system) and Galileo (the EU global navigation satellite system).

Proposal from the informal group secretary to add classes of emergency call devices to the draft regulation. The three classes proposed would address bandwidth variations (e.g., GSM 900, GSM 1800, UMTS 900, UMTS 2100, UMTS 1700/2100, UMTS 1900) and permit authorities to limit their acceptance of type approvals to particular classes.

OICA proposals for the test and measurement procedures to be undertaken to assess the post-collision (i.e., following the frontal impact or side impact testing under UN Regulations Nos. 94 and 95) functioning of an automatic emergency call device.

Draft report from the expert group working on a new regulation to govern approvals of in-vehicle automated emergency call devices to the Working Party on General Safety.

Table proposing scope and testing of triggering behavior, crash resistance, and post-crash performance within the scopes of UN R94, UN R95, and UN R12 as well as component-only testing.

Final feedback table from CLEPA on draft accident emergency call system approval provisions (action item from the 5-6 December 2013 AECS informal group session).

OICA raises a number of concerns over the direction of the AECS discussions including implications for all “connectivity” technologies. OICA stresses need for AECS to establish true harmonization through performance (rather than design) requirements and for mutual recognition under the 1958 Agreement as well as to maintain the focus on vehicles (as opposed to unwarranted digressions into broader infrastructure, telecommunications systems, bandwidth, etc.).

Update on the status of European efforts to deploy a mandatory in-vehicle emergency call system.

Review of Korean research related to automatic emergency call systems and perspectives on their deployment.

GNSS Performance -Conformance Tests according to 3GPP TS 37.571-1 with proposed adaptation for eCall.