2nd ICAI 2022

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2022

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

between two entities, resp. their information systems (in which, for example, there is a 10% error rate), then there are errors “on both sides” and the yield of information already has a 20% error rate. The error rate adds up. In other words – every fifth vehicle tested has an uncertain, very risky answer!

5. Conclusion – VIN decoder is one of the very effective tools for increasing the quality of VIN

During the eCALL solution in the Czech Republic, the VIN decoder was incorporated into the SW architecture of the project solution as one of the key sources of information about the crashed vehicle for the following reasons: • VIN decoding time is less than 1 sec. During this time, the operations officer will obtain immediate information on the basic characteristics of the crashed vehicle. • Obtaining information from the VIN via a VIN decoder does not depend on the quality of the connection to other information systems (central vehicle register), which may be unavailable in some critical situations. • There may be errors in the 17-digit VIN in the Central Vehicle Register. In this case, there would be no recovery, finding the vehicle in an emergency. Rescue services would not receive any information about the vehicle and its owner or operator. The probability of such an event is almost 8%. • In the event of a vehicle accident from a European country that is not connected to its national vehicle register via the eCALL module of EUCARIS technology, the rescue services will not receive any information about the crashed vehicle. Currently, only 6 EU countries are involved in the eCALL system from the point of view of international information exchange. • The VIN decoder is application-independent, and in eCALL technology it is able to cooperate with Russian GLONASS-type satellite systems, so that a crashed vehicle using this technology is provided with the same information support as all EU vehicles.

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