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Plugtests Events In the run-up to the formal roll-out in 2018 of eCall, the
In our Plugtests events companies can interconnect in-vehicle emergency call service, we held the 5th eCall
prototype or production implementations of standards to interoperability event in November/December. The event
test for interoperability and, where needed, conformance to was open to vendors of eCall in-vehicle systems, Public Safety
requirements. These events provide a highly cost effective Answering Points systems and eCall test solutions.
and practical way of identifying inconsistencies in either an
implementation or the standard itself. Our Plugtests events Interoperability events are becoming increasingly popular for
are often supported by the European Commission (EC). emergency and critical communications; we began planning
our first mission-critical Push-to-Talk Plugtests events, with
In 2016 we organised 12 Plugtests events, with varying two events foreseen in 2017.
formats to meet the specific needs of our members and the
industries we serve. Intelligent Transport Systems
In our continuous effort to support the rapid deployment
Emergency Communications of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), in partnership with
In March 2016 we ran a Plugtests event on Next Generation ERTICO, we organised the fifth Co-operative ITS Plugtests
112 (NG112) Emergency Communications, which has event, in Livorno, Italy. We were given access to the
been identified as a potential answer to the increasing port of Livorno and the Florence-Livorno highway so ITS
requirements and demands of content-rich emergency infrastructure vendors could deploy Roadside Units (RSUs) in
calling. The event involved a testing campaign based on the port as well as along the highway and connect RSUs to
use cases developed by ETSI and the European Emergency the highway control centre.
Number Association (EENA) and provided a unique
opportunity for vendors of emergency communication Other Highlights
equipment to test their products against different Our programme also included events on oneM2M, Small Cell
implementations and scenarios. The tests were based on LTE™, eSignatures, Time-Slotted Channel Hopping (6TiSCH)
the Next Generation 112 Long Term Definition document mode and the Associated Signature Container as well as a
and standards developed by ETSI, the Third Generation Mobile-Edge Computing (MEC) PoC Zone.
Partnership Project (3GPP™) and the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF).

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