History of my activities

Edition 2025-01-25.

Consultancy

• Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS)
• Communications in ITS, especially the set of standards developed under the acronym CALM (Communications Access for Land Mobiles) at ISO TC204 WG16, but also including standards from ETSI TC ITS and IEEEE 1609 WG (WAVE).
• Applications and application support (facilities) in ITS, especially the set of standards developed at ISO TC204 WG18, but also including standards from ETSI TC ITS.
• Road Transport and Traffic Telematics (RTTT),
• Dedicated Short Range Communication (CEN and Telepass including ETSI test standards)
• Electronic Fee Collection (EFC) for both CEN/Telepass DSRC and GNSS/CN
• TTCN-3 test suites for ITS
• Radio Local Area Networks and Field Bus Systems (CAN, LON)
• ISDN via packet radio
• ASN.1 module development
• Edition of book "Dedicated Short Range Communication - DSRC - A tutorial".

Involvement in Standard Developoment Organizations

• Member of DIN GK717 (Road Telematics) and its sub-committees
  • AK1 (DSRC),
  • AK9 (Electronic Fee Collection),
  • AK15 (eSafety)
  • AK16 (C-ITS).
• Member of CEN TC278 and its working groups
  • WG1 (Electronic Fee Collection),
  • WG2 (Freight and Fleet Management Systems),
  • WG7 (Spatial data),
  • WG9 (DSRC),
  • WG15 (eSafety),
  • WG16 (Cooperative ITS),
  • WG17 (Mobility integration)..
• Member of ISO TC204 and its working groups
  • WG1 (Architecture),
  • WG3 (ITS geographic data),
  • WG4 (Automatic Vehicle and Equipment Identification),
  • WG5 (Electronic Fee Collection),
  • WG14 (Driving automation and active safety systems),
  • WG16 (Wide area communications/protocols and interfaces, CALM),
  • WG18 (Co-operative systems),
  • WG19 (Mobility integration),
  • WG20 (Big data and artificial intelligence)
• Expert at and member of ETSI with active contribution to
  
  • TC ERM in its TG29 and TG37,
  • TC ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) and its five WGs.
    • First vice-chairman of WG2 (Architecture) and other WGs.
    
• Member / leader of ETSI Specialist Task Forces
• STF 455 on a Platform for Conformance Testing of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) protocols operated in a Bounded, Secure Managed Domain (BSMD). Follow up activity of STF 422.
  
  
• STF 422 on Conformance testing in support of interoperability for ISO 24102 - FSAP and ISO 29281 - FNTP, and HDR-DSRC
  
  
• STF 404 on ITS LDM and ITS application identifier
  
  
• STF 398 on ITS testing framework
  
  
• STF 372 on Conformance testing and interoperabiity DSRC (ETSI ES 200 674-1)
  
  
• STF 365 on Conformance testing in support of interoperability for ISO 21218
  
  
• STF 359 on European profile standard for 5,9 GHz ITS communications
  
  
• STF 282 on DSRC TTCN test suites for upper protocol layers.
  
  
  
  
• STF 238 on DSRC harmonized test standards EN 300 674.
  
  
• Member / leader of CEN TC278 Project Teams
  • PT1601 on ITS application management in the global context.
  • PT1604 on the Local Dynamic Map for global applicability in C-ITS
• Member of the EU/US task force harmonization task groups HTG1 and HTG3 (harmonizationn of ITS standards).
  Editor of the HTG3-1 deliverable. The whole set of deliverables is publicly available at the EC's web.
• Member of IEEE and IEEE-SA.
• Chairman of 1609 PSID sub-group (works on harmonized understanding of ITS-AID and PSID, and a common registry)
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Some projects

• Work on selected issues of IEEE 802.11 relevant for ITS.
• Investigations in coexistence of ITS 5 GHz communications with the Italian HDR-DSRC EFC system.
• Consultation and Engineering for the EU project CVIS - validation of the initial set of ISO CALM (Communication Access for Land Mobiles) standards for ITS.
• Independent evaluator for the EU funded research project RCI "Pan-European EFC service" conducted by ERTICO.
• Development of test software for communication systems using Python.
• Specification of DSRC (µW and IR) for the German truck tolling enforcement system including test specifications.
• Conformance verification of Italian Dual-Protocol Chip-Set for EFC - DSRC and TELEPASS.
• Test specification for the DSRC/TELEPASS protocol implemented in the Dual-Protocol Chip-Set.
• Specification of DSRC and EFC for the Norwegian Road Tolling System AutoPASS.
• Contribution to the DSRC and EFC test specification for the Norwegian Road Tolling System AutoPASS.
• Revision of the DSRC and EFC specification and test specification for the Norwegian Road Tolling System AutoPASS with respect to pan-European Interoperability of EFC applications and multiple communications / EFC protocols.
• Contribution to the "Dual protocol project" developing an integrated circuit supporting the MDR-DSRC and the HDR-DSRC protocoll for EFC.
• Design and Development of the Microwave Dedicated Short Range Radio Data Link FP99. Prototype Realization and Field Trials.
• Design and Development of the Microwave Dedicated Short Range Radio Link PIGEON for the pan-European digital tachograph EFS2000. Prototype Realization and Field Trials.
• System Design for a pan-European Traffic Management System.
• System Design for Military Microwave Links.
• Basic Research on Communications and Numerical Simulations of radio links and radio systems.
• System Design for Millimetrewave Battlefield Communications and Spread Spectrum Technology.
• System Design for a Military Body Area Network.
• Design and Implementation of Algorithms for a Digital Receiver for AIS.
• Numerical Simulations and Embedded System Programming.
• UNIX system administration
• Embedded System Programming for GSM Mobile Phone Tests.
• Embedded System Programming for an Emergency Telephone System for Train Applications.
• Embedded System Programming for a High Frequency Communication Link.
• Embedded System Programming for Military Microwave Links.
• Spread Spectrum Algorithms in C at LINUX.
• Speech Synthesizer Design for GSM Automotive Application.
• Visual C/C++ Programming. Crypto-Coder.
• Visual C/C++ Programming. Control Interfaces for Radio Systems.
• Visual Basic Programming. Office Software.
• HP-VEE Control Interfaces for Instruments. Mainly control of instruments in RF measurement chambers. HP-IB Interface modulare interface board with stepper drives.

Employments / Engagements

• Universität Kaiserslautern: Research assistant
• Standard Elektrik Lorenz in Pforzheim / Germany: System developer
• Telefunken Systemtechnik - Deutsche Aerospace - EADS / Ulm: Group leader for system development
• Berufsakademie Tettnang: Assistant teacher
• Elektrische Signalverarbeitung Dr. Fischer GmbH: Managing director
• Engineering Services Fischer: Freelancer