European Committee for Standardization

Electronic fee collection - Personalisation and mounting of first mount OBE
 N CEN/TR 16152

Annotation

Background and expected benefits of first-mount OBE

It could be foreseen that in future the DSRC OBE will be delivered by car manufacturer as a feature of the vehicle as they do today with car radio which are parts of the most sold vehicles. For the vehicle owner, the OBE supplier is the car manufacturer acting as an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer).

The integration of first mount OBE by car manufacturer is the only way to create a future mass market for EFC application based upon DSRC as well as GNSS/CN, as at present the integration of this type of OBEs cannot be achieved except for heavy goods vehicles. Regarding DSRC, this is also an opportunity to extend the capability of today's EFC technologies by providing increased quality of service, and possibly a greater range of services using in-vehicle electronics and resources.

Personalisation concept

The personalisation procedure is the procedure where the EFC Service Provider initialize, customise, and finally activate the EFC interoperable service to OBE, for a customer with or without existing account. Two different kinds of personalisation methods can be defined:

a) the personalisation procedure can be done "over the air". In such case, personalisation data can be encoded in the OBE by the Service Provider over a secure air-link, or

b) personalisation data can be loaded directly by the driver into the OBE or Service Provider via a personal storage media.

Theses are two fundamentally different approaches. The second method is perfectly fitted for critical initialisation data, such as encryption keys, to enable the driver to use the same EFC contract in different vehicles, and also to send personalisation data via post to a large number of customers.