Anritsu to Showcase Life-Saving Emergency Call System at Automotive Testing Expo 2023

Anritsu will join Automotive Testing Expo 2023 (13-15 June, Stuttgart, Germany),to display leading-edge test solutions for hot use cases in the automotive industry. The event is the world’s largest automotive testing technology expo, bringing together the latest innovations in full vehicle and component testing, as well as validation technologies and services.

On stand 1600 in Hall 10, Anritsu will showcase its testing solutions that help to evaluate the safety, stability, interoperability, and reliability of different CV2X applications.

Next Generation eCall testing solutions
The eCall, an automatic car emergency call system, is becoming a crucial part of the car environment, and since March 2018, it has been mandatory for all new homologated car models in the EU. It has already been a couple of years since the last standardization and adoption of eCall technology which is based on 2G and 3G cellular technologies. With the evolution of cellular technologies and wide deployment of 4G and 5G, the Next Generation eCall (NG eCall) is now coming, ensuring a much faster and reliable transfer of Minimum Set of Data (MSD).

As this emergency call provides life-saving services, it needs to be tested thoroughly. On the stand, Anritsu will demonstrate the process of making the emergency call from In-Vehicle system into the cellular LTE network with the transfer of MSD over SIP signalling and bi-directional end-to-end voice call between the passenger and operator of Public Service Answering Point (PSAP). In-Vehicle system represents Device Under Test (DUT) where we use the device developed by one of the market leaders. The PSAP is emulated by Anritsu Signalling Tester/Base Station simulator MD8475B and Anritsu eCall Test solution MX703330E. The process for making emergency calls is based on Voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology, where IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Session Initialization Protocol (SIP) are used to establish the voice call. All necessary data is then transferred quickly to help emergency services provide fast and effective intervention.