2nd ICAI 2022

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2022

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

the condition for reliable data transmission was ensured and at the same time the preconditions for obtaining additional information about the vehicle were created. However, this secondary information is no longer obtained by transmission from the crashed vehicle, resp. vehicles in need (which can be seriously damaged), but from databases that are connected directly to the SW of the operations center. In other words, the source of additional technical-administrative information about the vehicle is not the vehicle itself (it provides primarily to the MSD structure only the VIN, vehicle category and fuel type), but external databases, records, vehicle registers (Rak, 2019, 2021). During the initial considerations of eCall to ensure vehicle identification, it was also necessary to address the international interoperability of eCall, ie obtaining at least basic information about vehicles in need (Casey, 2014). Considerations were still taking place at a time when the EUCARIS interface for the international exchange of vehicle information was not sufficiently publicly known, and the Internet was not entirely common. The only source of information about the vehicle at that time was only the VIN. Therefore, basic vehicle information was required to be extracted from the VIN. The method, process of obtaining this information is generally called vindecoding, and the tool itself is a VIN decoder, see Figure 4. The term VIN decoder means a SW tool for online decomposition of the VIN structure of individual vehicles, i.e. obtaining basic information about the vehicle from the VIN, which has been entered into its structure by the manufacturer.

Figure 4. Demonstration of decoding the correct VIN for the Peugeot 5008 vehicle

Source: Roman Rak, 2020

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