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Feb
25
2016
Feb
25
2016s

ASAM Venturing into Standardizing Telematics Solutions

The ASAM Board of Directors has confirmed that the ASAM organization is planning to expand its work scope towards an area broadly labeled "Telematics". The topic is closely aligned to the recent ASAM International Conference topic of Big Data held in Dresden, Germany. The member organization Cummins Inc. has approached ASAM with the request to further develop use cases relating to "Remote Two Way Communications” as a first step in a Standard development process.



HOEHENKIRCHEN, GERMANY, 2015 – Cummins Inc. and ASAM will co-host a workshop with the global OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers on March 31, 2016 in Novi, Michigan, US to begin the process of gathering use cases and discuss standardization potential in the areas of telematics security, remote software / Calibration updates, remote adjustment, remote Diagnostics, prognostics, and Big Data exchanges services. This workshop, which is open for all interested OEMs and Tier-1s (members and non-members), shall create a common understanding of the topic as well as challenges that need to be addressed during a standardization project. 

“ASAM is the right community for development of this type of project”, said Gorance Eftimovski, Director of Engineering, Connected Systems and Controls Calibration FE, and Board Member of ASAM.  “ASAM’s history and industry connections in Measurement, Calibration, Diagnostics systems and data storage systems make ASAM the perfect intersection to bring together user needs, requirements, and solutions from the marketplace.”

Joseph Sparacino, Business Development Manager at ASAM, knows how crucial it is to develop the right use cases before bringing the major telematics providers on board. "Right now, we are consolidating the business use cases with OEMs and Tier-1s. However, our experience tells us that it will be essential for all relevant stakeholders to take part in the standardization process in order to develop a successful, well accepted Standard. Therefore, our next step will be to work with the many global telematics providers and stakeholders to co-develop a technical Standard," he says.

So far, the work scope of ASAM has been defined as the areas relating to MeasurementCalibration, ECU Networks, Diagnostics, Test Automation, Software Development and Data Management & Analytics. With the successful accomplishment of this project, Telematics will soon complement the ASAM work scope.

About ASAM e.V.

ASAM e.V. coordinates the development of technical standards. These standards define protocols, data models, file formats and application programming interfaces (APIs) for the use in the development and testing of automotive electronic control units. A large amount of popular tools in the areas of Simulation, Measurement, Calibration and test automation are compliant to ASAM standards. Compliance shall guarantee interoperability of tools from different vendors, allow data exchange without the need for converters, and facilitate the exchange of unambiguous Specification between customers and suppliers.

Founded in 1998 as a German association, ASAM has today more than 140 international members, including major OEMs in Germany, France, US, Japan, and China. ASAM has a portfolio of 22 standards among them the well established MCD (measuring, Calibration, Diagnostics)-standards with a market distribution of up to 80% worldwide. The infrastructural standards of ASAM are used by many of the big international OEMs.

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