eCall Standardisation

The necessary standardisation activities in Europe related to the technical solution for the implementation of a pan-European emergency eCall system for road vehicles cover two main issues: (1) the transport protocol by which the minimum set of data (MSD) will be send via the mobile telecommunication network (e.g. GSM) to the public service answering point (PSAP), and (2) the content and format of the MSD.

The Commission approached ETSI in 2005 to look for developing supporting standards for eCall. ETSI subsequently divided the work into two parts:

a)   the agreement of a communication link (transport protocol) was assigned to ETSI MSG

b)   a standard to specify the overall architecture and MSD was assigned to ETSI ERM TG37