2nd ICAI 2022

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2022

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

services arrive at the scene), dimensions, weights, volumes of transport spaces (to ensure adequate rescue equipment or the necessary capacities for the safe transfer of transported material from the crashed vehicle and removal from the accident site). 2. Issue, target and used methods: VIN decoder as a part of Intelligent Transport System eCall in the Czech Republic During the discussions, project intentions, initial proposals of the eCall architecture (Figure 2) in the Czech Republic, the question of how to transfer as much technical information about the vehicle as possible to the rescue services from the transmitted vehicle unit to the Integrated Rescue System (IRS) operation center was addressed to they had good information for deciding on the composition and technical equipment of the intervening fire brigade. In view of the requirements for a reliable telecommunication connection between the vehicle in distress and the operations center, it has been decided that the transmitted message (MSD) must be as short as possible (Boukerche et all, 2017). With „long“, data-intensive transmissions, there is a risk of transmission failure in the field. Therefore, it was not possible to include any extensive technical information about the vehicle in this data report.

Figure 3. Appearance and location of the VIN on vehicles. The VIN is also stored in the eCALL electronic control unit for a vehicle homologated after 2018

Source: Roman Rak, 2021 It was decided to incorporate a globally unique VIN ( Vehicle Identification Number , Figure 3) into the MSD structure, which on the one hand determines the individual identity of the vehicle, it is possible to read basic information about the vehicle (brand, basic model, category, manufacturer, usually also), body shape and / or engine type, model year, production plant, or other information) and also serves as an interconnection, the so-called database key to various vehicle registers and databases (and further information can be obtained from here) (Dirnbach, 2020). In this way,

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