The ACTIA group boasts unique synergy of skills In the vehicle communications field. Our core business, diagnostics and onboard vehicle systems manufacturing, effectively places us at the core of all the challenges and issues involved in getting vehicles to communicate with their environment. Not only does ACTIA excel in collecting, monitoring, analysing, managing, interpreting and displaying vehicle data, it also provides incoming and outgoing communications through its seamless mastery of communications systems and protocols.

ACTIA Connected Vehicle : features

Our Connected Vehicle solution provides continuous, real-time communications between moving vehicles and a central control unit. The data is viewed across Internet and processed using management software. Remote processing then makes it possible to :

• perform full vehicle diagnostics
• take a position reading
• communicate with the driver
• use a dynamic navigation system
• calculate and control trips and accurately determine travel time
• trigger a remote monitoring system
• receiving assistance requests, etc... from drivers.

ACTIA Connected Vehicle : the benefits

Connected Vehicle combines several technologies, products and services to respond to expectations relating to major issues like safety, comfort and maintenance but also to meet economic targets: fleet management, vehicle operational status maintenance…

ACTIA operates at the core of this onboard systems / communications / diagnostics data / services nexus and has been providing global fleet management and remote diagnostics solutions to major commercial vehicle manufacturers for several years. Recently, ACTIA has developed a service offering supporting the new SmarTach Remote generation of tachographs.

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ACTIA Connected Vehicle : the solution

The takeover of Autoliv Electronics’ “Connected Safety” business by the ACTIA group marks a new phase in the group’s positioning. As a major player in remote processing, this division develops innovative platforms in partnership with major automotive manufacturers. Thus, the open-ended TEM-3 solution packs a service bouquet providing vehicle management, control, protection and remote assistance from a single, user-friendly portal. Adapting easily to different vehicle architectures, this solution supports all communication standards.
At the same time, this division participates in several e-Call workgroups and standardisation committees and has already developed two of the three e-call systems currently available on the European market.

ACTIA Connected Vehicle : e-Call

The e-Call remote platform delivers substantial gains in terms of vehicle passenger safety. In fact, the benefits of the new emergency services is expected to spread across the transportation sector thanks to European standardisation efforts currently underway.
eCall is a Europe-wide service that will operate in all member States that are part of the initiative. It will be available in all vehicles, irrespective of make, country and actual geographic location. E-Call is the only service providing coverage on the European scale.

In practical terms, when a serious accident happens, sensors onboard the vehicle automatically trigger an e-Call. When activated, the onboard system makes a voice call to 112 and, at the same time, sends out an emergency message, a priority data set or MSD (Minimum Set of Data) comprising information on the accident including time, place, travel direction (determined from accurate data provided by a satellite navigation system like the EGNOS11 and, from 2013 onwards, Galileo 12). Additionally, a description is sent with the voice call.

The e-Call system can also be triggered manually.

The mobile network operator ascertains that the 112 call is an e-Call using the “e-Call flag” inserted by the vehicle’s communication module. The operator processes the e-Call like all 112 calls and reroutes it together with the MSD to the relevant emergency call centre - PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point).