scope:

This part of ISO 15638 provides business framework based on a (multiple) service provider [4.13] oriented approach for the provision of additional unregulated services to regulated commercial freight vehicles using a common on-board telematics platform, including:

a) Definition of the service that a 'Service Provider' [4.13] has to provide, including a given service level (the service definition comprises service elements such as "retrieve data from IVS", "map data to a map with access conditions", etc.)

b) Means to realise the service

c) Application data, naming content and quality that an IVS has to deliver

d) Development of (any) rules for the approval and auditing of service providers [4.12] for non-regulated service provision.

NOTE The definition of what comprises a 'regulated' service is regarded as an issue for national decision, and may vary from country to country. This part of ISO 15638 does not impose any requirements on nations in respect of which services for regulated commercial freights countries will require, or support as an option, but provides standardized sets of requirement descriptions for identified services to enable consistent and cost efficient implementations where Instantiated [4.8].

This part of ISO 15638 defines the requirements for the scope and framework for all TARV commercial (unregulated) applications. These applications may then be simply instantiated [4.8] as commercial applications conforming to the requirements of this part of ISO 15638, in which case no further standardization is required, so long as conformance can be demonstrated, and service offerings may vary from service provider [4.13] to service provider. Where it is decided that there is benefit in standardized instantiation [4.8] to a common format for a particular service, a separate standards deliverable will be required, but may be developed by the consensus of experts in that area of application by reference to this part of ISO 15638 in respect of the TARV technical aspects.

ISO 15638 has been developed for use in the context of regulated commercial freight vehicles (hereinafter referred to as 'regulated vehicles'). There is nothing, however, to prevent a jurisdiction extending or adapting the scope to include other types of regulated vehicles, as it deems appropriate.