Link Type: Position Location Interface

Location and Time Data Source --> Personnel Device:
location and time

Definition
Included In
Communication Solutions
Characteristics
Security

Definitions

location and time (Information Flow): The current geographic location in three dimensions (latitude, longitude, elevation) and the current time.

Location and Time Data Source (Source Physical Object): The 'Location and Time Data Source' provides accurate position information. While a Global Positioning System (GPS) Receiver is the most common implementation, this physical object represents any technology that provides a position fix in three dimensions and time with sufficient accuracy.

Personnel Device (Destination Physical Object): 'Personnel Device' represents devices used by emergency personnel or maintenance and construction personnel in the field. In the case of emergency personnel, the devices would include body cameras or smartphones (and their peripherals) that can be used by emergency personnel to provide images or video as well as send or receive data regarding the incident. The devices could also be used for incident scene safety messages to the personnel. In the case of maintenance and construction field personnel, the devices could be cellular phones or specialized safety devices that would be used for work zone safety messages to the personnel.

Included In

This Triple is in the following Service Packages:

SU05: Location and Time

This Triple is in the following Functional Objects:

Personnel Location Determination

This Triple is described by the following Functional View Data Flows:

This Triple has the following triple relationships:

None

Communication Solutions

GNSS Data - GNSS serial interface (6)

Solutions are sorted in ascending Gap Severity order. The Gap Severity is the parenthetical number at the end of the solution.

Selected Solution

GNSS Data - GNSS serial interface

Solution Description

This solution is used within Australia, the E.U. and the U.S.. It combines standards associated with GNSS Data with those for GNSS serial interface. The GNSS Data standards include upper-layer standards required to obtain location and time information from a satellite-positioning-system-based geolocation receiver. The GNSS serial interface standards include lower-layer standards that support communications between connected ITS equipment and geolocation equipment such as a GPS receiver.

ITS Application Entity NMEA 0183			Click gap icons for more info.
Mgmt No Standard Needed	Facilities No Standard Needed	Security No Standard Needed
	TransNet NMEA 0183
	Access NMEA 0183

Note that some layers might have alternatives, in which case all of the gap icons associated with every alternative may be shown on the diagram, but the solution severity calculations (and resulting ordering of solutions) includes only the issues associated with the default (i.e., best, least severe) alternative.

Characteristics

Characteristic	Value
Time Context	Now
Spatial Context	Adjacent
Acknowledgement	False
Cardinality	Broadcast
Initiator	Source
Authenticable	True
Encrypt	True

Interoperability	Description
Local	In cases where an interface is normally encapsulated by a single stakeholder, interoperability is still desirable, but the motive is vendor independence and the efficiencies and choices that an open standards-based interface provides.

Security

Information Flow Security
	Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
Rating	Moderate	High	High
Basis	While time reference should be universally available, time reference coupled with personal location is tracking data. This flow is internal to a PID, but should probably be encrypted to discourage hacking. Thus MODERATE.	Location and time data is the basis for safety and a host of other applications. Corruption of this flow could lead directly to a vehicle accident.	If this information is not available, applications depending on this information will not function properly.

Security Characteristics	Value
Authenticable	True
Encrypt	True

Location and Time Data Source --> Personnel Device:location and time