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ETSI Launches First European Live Trial  Latest ETSI

       for Intelligent Transport Systems                                         White Papers:

       Testing Event in Livorno Shows Convergence
       Between IoT and ITS



























                                                                                 Tackling the Challenges of
       ETSI announced its 5  ETSI ITS      “In collaborative ITS communications,   Cyber Security
                        th
       Plugtests™ event, a two week testing   interoperability is key and this is a
       event for co-operative transport     great opportunity for solution providers   Developed by the chairman of our
       systems focusing on vehicle-to-      to test their products. The fact that   Technical Committee CYBER, this
       vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure   companies from different ITS sectors   document provides an overview of all
       communications. Testing took place   are increasingly involved and ready to   ETSI work related to Cyber Security
       from 7 to 17 November around the     test under real life conditions shows the   and outlines some of our targets and
       port of Livorno, Italy. In addition the   high level of maturity of ITS standards   aspirations for coming years.
       Sea Port Innovation Conference was   and implementations” said Marco
       held on 16 and 17 November where     Annoni, ETSI ITS Vice-Chair.         Available from: https://goo.gl/2avQAn
       attendees were able to take a demo
       tour on the test track.              In Livorno, the cruise terminal was   Ensure interworking
                                            the testbed headquarters and a test-  between multiple
       ETSI has worked for several months   drive path was used for quick setup
       with its partners ERTICO, CNIT, Livorno   of testing equipment in the field. The   Contactless Card Emulation
       Port Authority, Regione Toscana      infrastructure included a 10 minutes   Environments
       (Tuscan Regional Government), AVR    test drive on the Livorno-Florence
       (Livorno/Florence highway), Autostrade   highway, an IoT testbed enabling a   Joint white paper between ETSI,
       Tech (motorway network), and Telecom   set of specialized test cases on large-  GlobalPlatform and NFC Forum.
       Italia to put in place the testbed. This   scale distributed sensing and actuation.   This white paper is intended for
       event contributes to ITS deployment,   The latter can be seen as a vertical   executives in OEM, contactless
       tests interoperability of ITS equipment   realization of M2M communications in   products, and service providers,
       from all key vendors and demonstrates   the context of Intelligent Transport.  especially Mobile Network Operators,
       the convergence between ITS and                                           payment service providers, transport
       Internet of Things.                  The test site included variable message
                                            signs, traffic lights, IoT sensors and   service providers, and all service
       This event trialed the ITS eco       cameras as well as connectivity with   providers offering contactless services
       system under real life conditions    the highway control center. Different   to be hosted in devices such as
       from infrastructure to applications   topics were addressed, including road   mobiles. It informs system integrators
       in vehicles, thus demonstrating      hazard signaling, traffic sign violation,   and engineers how GlobalPlatform
       conformance to ETSI ITS Release 1    intersection collision risk warning and   technologies can be used to build
       standard and interoperability of ITS   loading zone management.           a standardized NFC-ecosystem
       G5 radio equipment. Companies                                             integrating several Card Emulation
       from Asia, Europe and North America   “We were very excited to partner    Environments.
       had the opportunity to connect their   with ETSI for this first real life event.
       equipment to the test infrastructure.   Over the past few years we have   Available from: https://goo.gl/tF2Vd5
       This was a unique chance for solution   organized testing events and created
       providers to maximize the effectiveness   an Interoperability Interest Group to
       of their ITS solutions in urban      enlarge the scope of these activities
       environments.                        and cooperate with third parties in the
                                            development of an ITS standardization
                                            roadmap” said ERTICO CEO Hermann
                                            Meyer.

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