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Tolling Technology Certification Presented by: Bill Brownsberger

Fagan Consulting, LLC July 14, 2015

Technology Certification

Certifying technology to pave the path toward Interoperability

• What is Technology Certification?

• Why do we need it in Tolling?

Terminology

• Standards

A standard is a document (specification) that provides rules or guidelines to achieve order in a given context.

• Certification

Product certification is the process of certifying that a certain product meets minimum performance standards, passed quality assurance tests, and/or meets qualification criteria stipulated in contracts or specifications, and/or complies with regulations.

Products are "Certified" to meet a documented "Standard"

Standards

Standards – Purposes

• Standards provide requirements for interconnectivity. ─ Between systems and between equipment


• Standards provide requirements for interconnectivity.

• Standards are important for ensuring safety, reliability, and environmental concerns. Safety

─ Grounding and housing to protect from electrical shock and fires

─ Connected Vehicle (CV) application safety (interference with other vehicle systems)

Reliability ─ Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) requirements proven

in testing

Environmental ─ Rule Out Hazardous Substances (ROHS) requirements assure compliance with state

regulations


• Standards provide requirements for interconnectivity.

• Standards are important for ensuring safety, reliability, and environmental concerns.

• Standards provide requirements for interoperability.

This is especially important where agencies desire to 'mix and match' equipment and/or services.

Certification

Certification

• Certification is a process intended to determine if a product meets a standard.

• The process for certification of a product is generally summed up in four steps: Application (including testing of the product)

Evaluation (does the test data indicate that the product meets qualification criteria)

Decision (does a second review of the product application concur with the Evaluation)

Surveillance (does the product in the marketplace continue to meet qualification criteria)

Interoperability

Evolution of Interoperability

• One system, one integrator

Method of communication between components not a priority



• Multiple systems, one integrator

Method of communication between subsystems becoming a consideration




• Multiple systems, multiple integrators

Interfaces still customized, but industry began to adopt some standards on content and form




• Multiple systems, multiple integrators

• Multiple agencies / systems / integrators

European CEN standard

Inter Agency Group (E-ZPass)

Florida / Texas / California

6C Tolling Operators Coalition

RFID Interoperability

• Original Approach If two or more agencies want their tags and readers to be interoperable,

then the common approach was for all agencies to purchase equipment from a single vendor.

The vendor ensured that all equipment was interoperable. This is how several agencies work today.

• Introduction of Standards Agencies worked together to define an RFID standard. Third party certification testing still evolving. California adopted Title 21 that includes RFID specifications, which

allowed competitive procurements for their RFID products. CEN standard (EN 15509) developed for European toll collection (5.8GHz).


Challenges Remain!

Excerpt from recent procurement document:

“As it can never be guaranteed that referenced specifications or standards are not conflicting, ambiguous, and incomplete or unintentionally leave room for interpretation, the (bidder) – as (transponder) purchaser and issuer is obliged to contact every (interoperable Toll Agency) using DSRC technology for clarification.”


• Contemporary Model

Agencies work with standards / certification bodies to document a spec, including test procedures that will allow independent, third party labs to certify that the products meet the spec.

This ensures interoperability and eases the testing burden on individual agencies.

Example: The 6C Toll Operators Coalition (North American ISO 18000-6C (63) Tolling)

Industry Certification Services

• OmniAir Certification Services (OCS) Advocates for standards development and certification in ITS and Tolling Standards / Certification regarding RFID/DSRC, electronic Payments Back

Office communications (EPSNIS), and Connected Vehicle applications

• Certification in India Automotive Research Association of India Provides technical expertise in R & D, testing, certification,

and framing of vehicle regulations.

• Europe Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Comité

Européen de Normalisation (French: European Committee for Standardization - CEN)

Other Certification Applications

Other applications for standardization and certification may be:

• License plate processing (image/data standardization) Image transfer standards for…

─ Front / Rear identification

─ IR vs Standard Lighting

─ Human Readable Optimized vs Computer Readable

Review data standards… ─ State

─ Plate

─ Jurisdiction

─ Prefix / Suffix

─ Specialty nomenclature



• License plate processing (image/data standardization)

• ITS products (NTCIP - National Transportation Communications for Intelligent Transportation System Protocol )

Changeable Message Signs

Lane Occupancy Detection (MDS units)

Cameras



• License plate processing (image/data standardization)

• ITS products (NTCIP - National Transportation Communications for Intelligent Transportation System Protocol )

• Back office interfaces

OmniAir EPSNIS standard

IAG provides a standard back office specification

IBTTA is in the process of standardizing the back office interface for National Interoperability


• Connected Vehicle

USDOT National ITS Architecture

Benefits

Benefits

• Overall

• To the industry

• To the tolling agencies

Benefits - Overall

• Safety

For Connected vehicle applications, safety concerns are an absolute must

• Environment

A certification process can assure ROHS regulations are met

• Support of government agencies and legislation

Government support of standards for Connected Vehicle (CV)

• Industry and Agency Growth

An open, published, specification allows multiple vendors to build to the spec’, receive certification, and produce a product with assurance that their product will be interoperable

Benefits to the Industry

• Allows for mass production of a product

• An established foundation upon which to build new technologies

• Allows phased rollouts of new technology

• Encourages innovation

• Raises agency confidence in product

Benefits to Tolling Agencies

• Increased selection of products • Reliability of products • Acceptance by bonding agencies • Reduction of risk • Enhance existing implementations • Easier replacement of equipment • Easier migration to newer technologies • Backwards compatibility • Faster implementations • Allows competitive procurements • Interoperability

Questions and Answers

Sources

• American National Standards Institute (ANSI) http://www.ansi.org

• European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) http://www.etsi.org/

• OmniAir Certification Services http://omniaircertified.org/

• National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol (NTCIP) https://www.ntcip.org/

• National Interoperability Protocol (NIOP) http://ibtta.org/ibtta-interoperability-committee-iop

• Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) http://www.araiindia.com

• Alliance for Toll Interoperability (ATI) http://www.tollinterop.org

• American Society for Testing and Materials http://www.astm.org

Fagan Consulting

• Contact:

Bill Brownsberger

Phone: (937) 403-3705

URL: http://faganconsulting.com

• About:

Fagan Consulting is a certified Disadvantage Business Enterprise or Minority Business Enterprise (DBE/MBE) in Texas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia. Fagan Consulting is a registered SBE in California.

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