eCall Service Providers working group - recap 2007

Creation date: 20 December 2007

The eCall Service Providers (SP) working group held three meetings over the course of 2007.

The group gathers around 15 service providers of telematics services (emergency assistance, eCall, etc.) from different European countries.

Its major objective to identify the roles and responsibilities of service providers and PSAPs (public safety answering points) in the eCall service chain, looking into issues such as:
 • what additional value-added services can service providers offer?
 • what kind of data must be included in the eCall Full Set of Data (FSD)?
 • what are the procedures and interfaces required to provide the PSAP with this additional data?

The working meetings in February, July and October were devoted to discussions around the content of the Full Set of Data (FSD), the need for an interface for the SP and PSAP, as well as the possible business models for eCall which include the SP role.

The major result of these efforts was finalisation of the first draft of a document which proposes possible SP/PSAP interfaces and possible content for the Full Set of Data. It will be submitted to the PSAP working group for its feedback.

The next step for the SP working group is to build a closer co-operation with the PSAP expert group, in order to progress the overall work of eCall deployment.

For more information, please contact eSafety Support, info@esafetysupport.org