Overview

Draft Charter

Bring together public safety, automotive, commercial transportation, and government to make our roadways safer for everyone:

• Define comprehensive stakeholder-based safety-related scenarios and value propositions
• Collaborate with COVESA members and others safety-related organizations to develop safety expertise and community within COVESA
• Develop integrated safety system prototypes and references implementations
• Publish white papers on key findings, best practices, and implementation recommendations

Result

Accelerate delivery of connected technologies to benefit everyone that shares, protects, and maintains our roadways.  Examples:

• Protect and give aid to vulnerable vehicles and occupants stranded along roadway
• Reduce response time and secondary collision risk for motorists involved in a crash
• Provide 911 Public Safety organizations with critical information so that they dispatch the right personnel and equipment to the scene
• Mitigate liability and lost productivity for commercial vehicles involved in roadway crashes

Calendar

To drive this forward, the BoF Working Group will meet monthly to discuss the following topics.  Once the key stakeholder needs have been discussed, additional meetings will focus on defining the technology, data exchange, eco-system, and business model that are needed to deliver against those stakeholder needs.

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Workshop Summary

Virtual Workshop:  April 17, 2024 at 6:30am PT / 9:30am ET / 15:30 CET.

This upcoming workshop - held at the COVESA All Members Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden - will focus on ADAS Collision Avoidance/Aftercare using the following agenda.

Working Session Title: Enabling accurate and prompt implementation of rescue services and start of emergency response

15:30-16:00: Welcome - Tim VanGoethem (Chief Product Office, Emergency Safety Solutions) & Larry Williams (Co-Founder LiDAR Saving Lives Public Safety Coalition)

 – Tim and Larry will provide the Connected Safety Birds of a Feather Working Group status and kick-off the Working Session

16:00-16:25:  Visual contextual information from Lidar, radar, and camera sensors – enabling a more intelligent emergency response Terranet AB, Magnus Anfersson, CEO

–  Today, in 70% of all emergency braking scenarios, vehicle crashes still occur despite having an existing ADAS system installed. Magnus will describe how Terranet’s emerging BlincVision product based on laser scanning, event cameras, and three-dimensional analysis will augment existing ADAS collision avoidance systems to achieve even lower latency. Magnus will describe Terranet’s vision of the world’s first end-to-end fully-integrated system for crash avoidance, detection, and instantaneous crash response - digitally processing and routing visual contextual information and intelligent crash data to first responders – transforming their ability to respond when crashes do happen.

16:25 - 17:00:  Collecting, sending, processing, & distributing intelligent crash data to help save lives - Roger C. Lanctot (Director Global Automotive Practice, TechInsights)

– In the end, it all comes down to response times. In the event of a crash, vehicular emergency data should be collected, transmitted, and processed in a timely manner.  To do so, it should pass through as few hands as possible. Roger will describe the critical role of emerging IP-based instantaneous crash notification service providers transmitting critically important real-time crash data directly into 9-1-1 PSAP computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems augmenting legacy voice-centric 9-1-1 call taker solutions, thereby improving the accuracy and reliability of automotive OEM SOS emergency services, reducing response times, and expediting the arrival of first responders. 

17:00 - 17:25:  Third-Party Service Provider (TPS) eCall services delivering intelligent crash data to PSAPs in global format - Guillaume Ouellette (Product Manager, WirelessCar)

– Instantaneous IP-based crash notification does not eliminate the need for Third-Party Service Provider (TPS) eCall support after a crash.  It does assign TPS eCall support to a secondary role in service of the needs of first responders. Guillaume will describe how TPS eCall providers can work in tandem with forward-thinking automakers and emerging IP-based instantaneous crash notification service providers to enable the swift and efficient delivery of intelligent crash data in a useable, readable format directly into next-generation 911/112/000 PSAP computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems and first responder mobile devices on a global level.

17:25 - 17:30:  Closing, Tim VanGoethem (Chief Product Office, Emergency Safety Solutions

– Tim will recap the Working Session and provide details for May meeting.

For those that aren't able to join in person, please join via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89354153110

Virtual Workshop:  March 7, 2024 at 8am PT / 11am ET / 17:00 CET.

In this workshop we discussed the how many people are affected by crashes with vulnerable roadway users.  Special thanks to Andrew Coetzee from Emergency Safety Solutions for sharing his perspective and thoughts on how we can improve safety for everyone (material available below).

Virtual Workshop:  February 8, 2024 at 8am PT / 11am ET / 17:00 CET.

In this workshop we discussed the needs and value created for the following:

• • the unexpected challenges individuals face during a vehicle submersion including how panic and uncertainty meet the hard reality of needing to act fast in such situations.
  • will share insights into public safety needs and provide real-world data examples.

Special thanks to Sabrina Percher, COO and Founder of AWOS Technologies, and Scott Pate, Co-Founder of LiDAR Saving Lives Public Safety Coalition & Consultancy, for their insightful and thought provoking presentations (material available below).

COVESA Connected SaFETY BOF v2024_02_08.pdf

Kickoff Session:  December 06, 2023 at 7am PT / 10am ET / 16:00 CET.

This kick-off meeting introduced the goals and expected results for the Connected Safety Birds of a Feather Working Group.  The agenda for the meeting was:

• Introductions
• BoF Overview
  • Goal & Strategies
  • Expected Results
  • Approach
• Q&A / Discussion
• Next Steps

The attached materials were used to frame the discussion.

Connected Safety BoaF Kick-off v2023_12_01.pdf