Physical Object: Vehicle

Vehicle Emergency Notification

Overview
Requirements
Information Flows
Standards

Overview

'Vehicle Emergency Notification' provides the capability for drivers or collision detection sensors to report an emergency and summon assistance. It gathers data from on-board collision detection sensors, provides a mechanism for the driver to summon assistance, and includes a communications capability to report the collision including indicators of collision severity, the number of passengers involved, and information about the vehicle that may affect the response.

This functional object is included in the "Vehicle" physical object.

This functional object is included in the following service packages:

This functional object is mapped to the following Functional View PSpecs:

Requirements

#	Requirement
01	The vehicle shall provide the capability for a driver to report an emergency and summon assistance.
02	The vehicle shall provide the capability to accept input from a driver via a panic button or some other functionally similar form of input device provided as part of the in-vehicle equipment.
03	The vehicle shall acknowledge the driver's request for emergency assistance.
04	The vehicle shall collect vehicle characteristics describing the vehicles typical and real time configuration, including damage to vehicle components.
05	The vehicle shall notify emergency responders of the characteristics and damage identified to the vehicle involved in a collision.
06	The vehicle shall provide the capability to automatically identify that a collision has occurred using equipment such as collision detection sensors with an interface to mayday type equipment that would automatically detect vehicle problems and send appropriate distress signals to the arriving public safety vehicles.
07	The vehicle shall collect vehicle operational state information from the host vehicle.
08	The vehicle shall analyze vehicle operational state information to determine if the host vehicle has been involved in a collision.
09	The vehicle shall provide further details about the emergency to the center upon request from that function.
10	The vehicle shall forward a request for assistance to a center containing the driver's current location, its identity and basic vehicle data relevant to its current condition, as well as any other data, such as personal medical history, vehicle orientation, etc., that may be developed in-vehicle by other systems.
11	The vehicle shall provide the capability to automatically identify that a collision has occurred using equipment such as collision detection sensors with an interface to mayday type equipment that would automatically detect vehicle problems and send appropriate distress signals to a center.

Information Flows

Source	Flow	Destination
Basic Vehicle	driver input information	Vehicle
Basic Vehicle	host vehicle status	Vehicle
Driver	driver input	Vehicle
Driver	request for service	Vehicle
Emergency Management Center	emergency acknowledge	Vehicle
Emergency Management Center	emergency data request	Vehicle
Other Vehicles	emergency acknowledge	Vehicle
Other Vehicles	emergency notification	Vehicle
Other Vehicles	emergency notification relay	Vehicle
Vehicle	driver update information	Basic Vehicle
Vehicle	driver updates	Driver
Vehicle	emergency notification	Emergency Management Center
Vehicle	emergency notification relay	Emergency Management Center
Vehicle	vehicle collision information	Emergency Vehicle OBE
Vehicle	vehicle incident record	Enforcement Center
Vehicle	emergency acknowledge	Other Vehicles
Vehicle	emergency notification	Other Vehicles
Vehicle	emergency notification relay	Other Vehicles

Standards

Currently, there are no standards associated with the functional object itself though the interfaces may have standards associated with them.