The company Elektrische Signalverarbeitung Dr.Fischer GmbH (ESF) was founded in 1997. Owner and managing director is Dr. Hans-Joachim Fischer.

ESF has a certain focus, but is not restricted to this, on communication and radar technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems. ESF is providing the following services:

• Consultancy
• Scientific research
• Expertises
• Numerical simulation
• Engineering and prototype realisation
• Software and firmware development
• PC data base applications.

In order to meet our customer's requirements efficiently, we cooperate with other small and medium scale enterprises - establishing by this a virtual enterprise.

The office is located at:

Fichtenweg 9 - Asch
89143 Blaubeuren
Phone: +49 73 44 175 340
Mobile: +49 1570 354 5571
Fax: +49 73 44 9191-23
E-Post: info (at) fischer-tech.info
WGS84 coordinates: N48 26.271 E9 49.467

You may reach our office by taxi, either from the airport Stuttgart (45 minutes ride), the main railway station Ulm (20 minutes ride) or the railway station Blaubeuren (10 minutes ride).

Coming by car either from Ehingen, Ulm, Stuttgart, München or Ravensburg, please note the following instructions:

From Ehingen:

B492 towards Blaubeuren. In Blaubeuren turn left on B28 towards Bad Urach. After the tunnel take the first exit right and the the first exit left uphill towards Sonderbuch / Asch. In Asch turn right towards Ulm. Once you passed the petrol station turn right twice.

From Ulm:

B28 towards Blaubeuren. Drive through Blaustein and Herrlingen. Turn right uphill towards Wippingen / Asch and drive through Wippingen. In Asch take the first exit to the left and then turn right.

From Stuttgart / Stuttgart aiport:

Take highway Autobahn A8 towards München. Leave A8 at exit Merklingen. Follow the signs towards Blaubeuren, then towards Berghülen, Bühlenhausen, Asch. In Asch turn left towards Ulm. Once you passed the petrol station turn right twice.

FromMünchen:

Take highway Autobahn A8 towards Stuttgart. Leave A8 at exit Ulm West / Dornstadt towards Ulm. After passing the tunnel in Ulm follow the signs towards Blaubeuren. For further information see above.

From Ravensburg / Weingarten:

Take B30 towards Ulm. Leave B30 at exit Ulm / Donautal towards Donautal (not Wippingen!).After crossing a hill, in Ulm follow the signs towards Blaubeuren. For further information see above.

Paperwork

1. General consultancy
2. Standardisation. We are full member of ETSI.
3. Expertises
4. Scientific studies
5. Numerical simulation
6. Technical reports

Electrical Engineering

1. Design and development of digital and analogue circuits, including radio frequency circuits.

Software

1. TTCN test suites
2. Agilent VEE test suites
3. Scientific applications
4. Webdesign
5. µ-controller, signal processors
6. Office applications

Field trials

1. Design and implementation
2. Performance
3. Evaluation

Virtual enterprise established with companies providing complementary skill - fulfillment from one source!

1. Computer networks and operating systems
2. Internet
3. Automotive electronics
4. Radio communications: e.g micro waves, millimeter waves, infra red
5. Small series production

Cooperative Intelligen Transport Systems

Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) are being developed at various SDOs in a joint approach in order to merge the various "silo ITS applications" under one common cooperative platform which was originally developed at ISO TC204 WG16 (CALM). CALM introduced the concecpt of a "Bounded Secured Managed Domain", which is now being used for C-ITS.

Cooperative ITS can be defined as follows:

Major roles in C-ITS are with

• ISO TC204 WG16 for communication standards (ad-hoc access technologies, cellular networks, and satellites)
• ISO TC204 WG18 for application standards

ISO TC204 WG18 jointly developes its standards with

• CEN TC278 WG16

ETSI TC ITS is developing communication standards and application standards for a small slice of ITS, i.e. car-centric road safety and traffic efficiency.

CEN TC278 WG16 and ETSI TC ITS jointly replied to the Mandate M/453 of the European Commission to develop a first set of C-ITS standards. This activity is partly funded under this mandate.

USA and EU work together on quick introduction of global C-ITS, and on International Harmonization of Standards.

Standardisation activities related to C-ITS are also conductedat other organisation, e.g. at IEEE (802.11p and 1609), at SAE, and other regional SDOs. Please visit our portal on ITS Standardization.

In case you want to contribute to this joint effort, please do not hesitate to contact info (at) fischer-tech.info.

Dedicated Short Range Communications

DSRC is a standardization project. Responsible for the set of basic DSRC standards

• EN 12253 DSRC Physical Layer
• EN 12795 DSRC Data Link Layer
• EN 12834 DSRC Application Layer
• EN 13372 DSRC Profiles

was CEN TC278 WG9.

ETSI provided standards for conformance testing:

• EN 300 674 Part 1: General characteristics and test methods for Road Side Units (RSU) and On-Board Units (OBU)
• EN 300 674 Part 2: Harmonized EN under 3.2 of the R&TTE Directive; Sub-part 1: Requirements for the RSU
• EN 300 674 Part 2: Harmonized EN under 3.2 of the R&TTE Directive; Sub-part 2: Requirements for the OBU

Thiese harmonized standards are registered in the official list of harmonized standards of the European Commission.

• TS 102 486: Intelligent Transport Systems(ITS); Road Transport and Traffic Telematics (RTTT); Test specifications for Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) transmission equipment;
  Part 1: DSRC data link layer: medium access and logical link control;
      Sub-Part 1: Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) proforma specification
      Sub-Part 2: Test Suite Structure and Test Purposes (TSS&TP)
      Sub-Part 3: Abstract Test Suite (ATS) and partial PIXIT proforma
  Part 2: DSRC application layer;
      Sub-Part 1: Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) proforma specification
      Sub-Part 2: Test Suite Structure and Test Purposes (TSS&TP)
      Sub-Part 3: Abstract Test Suite (ATS) and partial PIXIT proforma
  

ESF GmbH was involved in the development of all parts of these DSRC base / profile / test standards, partly as member of a CEN project team or as member of an ETSI STF (Specialist Task Force).

The process continues at CEN TC278 WG1 - WG on Electronic Fee Collection (EFC) in order to develop standards as the technical interoperable basis for the European Electronic Toll Service (EETS).

Electronic Fee Collection

EFC mainly is an implementation project, as almost all standards urgently needed are already available.

ESF GmbH was and still is involved in several real EFC implementations in Europe.

The urgent task now is to serve Europe in a user-friendly, cost-effective, reliable way to achieve interoperable cross-border EFC. The basic well-proven core technology is DSRC. New technologies such as GNSS/CN, Video/OCR recognition, etc. may be used in addition to the pan-European mandatory core technology where reasonably being applicable. It has to be considered, that most vehicles in Europe are in private usage (cars, motorcycles), thus expensive technology like complex navigation technology is not acceptable at all, especially for those countries that still suffer from low economy. "Cheap" implementations of navigation technology suffer from somewhat low performance. Considering the competition between DSRC and GNSS/CN it is easyly being calculated that in case of enforcement to be implemented for EFC systems - which is not only reasonable but urgently required -, DSRC systems are cheaper to be implemented and operated than GNSS/CN sytems. The main cost in a DSRC EFC system is the cost of enforcement. The effort for enforcement is the same for DSRC and GNSS/CN.

The Europe Commission together with CEN TC278 WG1 now are working towards a harmonized European Electronic Toll Service (EETS) considering

• the well established CEN DSRC technology
• GNSS/CN as currently being in use in Germany
• the Italian Telepass technology, which is similar to CEN DSRC.

Such a harmonized service beneficially can be implemented as a coopeartive ITS on a CALM in-vehicle platform. This allows to reduce significantly the price of equipment related to EFC, and at the same time providing added-value services in the car.

General Purpose Interface Bus

This is a hardware and software development project of ESF GmbH in cooperation with IEB GmbH.

The universal interface GPIB-A1 together with a dual stepper drive module is in successful operation at NARDA Safety Test Solutions GmbH in several RF measurement set-ups including anechoic chambers with very high field strength. The stepper drives control position and movement of antennas.

This is a useful device for physical layer measurements of any radio equipment. The basic interface provides digital I/O lines at TTL levels. Please check the manual.

Control of the GPIB instruments is done via the Agilent VEE software. ESF GmbH is a registered VEE developer using VEE 6 and VEE 7.

Please contact info (at) fischer-tech.info for further details.

Summary of activities at ESF GmbH

• Conformance testing and certification of C-ITS equipment.
• Consultation for
  • Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS)
  • Communications access for land mobiles (CALM)
  • Road Transport and Traffic Telematics (RTTT),
  • Dedicated Short Range Communication (CEN/ETSI-DSRC and Telepass)
  • Electronic Fee Collection (EFC) for both DSRC and GNSS/CN
  • Communications Access for Land Mobiles (ISO-CALM)
  • TTCN-3 test suites for ITS
  • Radio Local Area Networks and Field Bus Systems (CAN, LON)
  • ISDN via packet radio
• Edition of book "Dedicated Short Range Communication - DSRC - A tutorial".
• Member of DIN GK717 (Road Telematics), DIN GK717 AK1 (DSRC), AK9 (Electronic Fee Collection), AK16 (C-ITS).
• Member of CEN TC278 WG1 (Electronic Fee Collection), WG9 (DSRC), WG16 (Co-operative systems).
• Member of ISO TC204 WG5 (Electronic Fee Collection), WG16 (Wide area communications/protocols and interfaces, CALM), WG18 (Co-operative systems)
  • Editor of ISO 16444 "ITS Geo-Routing"
  • Editor of ISO 16445 "ITS handover architecture"
  • Editor of ISO 16460 "ITS integration of WAVE"
  • Co-editor of ISO 21214 "CALM IR".
  • Editor of ISO 21215 "CALM M5".
  • Co-editor of ISO 21217 "ITS architecture".
  • Editor of ISO 21218 "Medium access points".
  • Editor of ISO 24102 "ITS station management"
  1. Local ITS station management.
  2. Remote ITS station management
  3. Service access points
  4. Inter-ITS-SCU management communications
  5. Fast service advertisement protocol (FSAP)
• Editor of ISO 29281 "Non-IP networking" (3 parts).
  1. Non-IP networking
  2. Fast networking & transport layer protocol (FNTP)
  3. Legacy system support
• Full member of ETSI.

• Active contribution to ETSI ERM, ETSI ERM TG29 and TG37.
• Active contribution to ETSI ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) and its WGs.
• Vice-chairman of WG2 (Architecture)
• Member of ETSI Specialist Task Forces
  • 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 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.
  • Active contributions to ISO TC204 (Intelligent Transport Systems), ISO TC204 WG15 (Dedicated short range communications for TICS applications) and WG16 (Wide area communications/protocols and interfaces).
• Consultation and Engineering for the EU project CVIS - validation of CALM.
• Work on selected issues of IEEE. 802.11 relevant for CALM.
• 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.
• 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 and Numerical Simulations.
• 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.
• 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.

Elektrische Signalverarbeitung Dr. Fischer GmbH

ESF GmbH is an independent consultancy and engineering service provider. The company is owned by Dr. Hans-Joachim Fischer.

Main activities are in the areas

• Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and Road Transport and Traffic Telematics (RTTT)
  • Electronic Fee Collection (EFC) with DSRC and GNSS/CN according to EETS (European Electronic Toll Service)
  • Ad-hoc mobile communications (between vehicles, between roadsides, and between vehicles and roadsides)
  • Seamless Communications based on CALM / ITSC
  • Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure Systems CVIS

with a temporary focus on

• Development of base standards, mainly at ISO TC204 WG 16 (CALM and Probe Data), ISO TC204 WG18 and CEN TC278 WG16 (Cooperative systems)
• Development of test standards with TTCN-2 and TTCN-3
• ITS system and test specifications
• Project consultancy

Further activities are e.g.

• Development of test suites based on Agilent VEE
• Customer specific HPIB interfaces
• Communications and radar system design
• Numerical simulation of communications and radar systems
• Design of dedicated software, e.g. Visual Basic, C/C++.

Ingenieur Elektronik Benad GmbH

IEB GmbH is an electronics company in Saxonia.

We combine experiences in the areas of:

• Traffic Telematics
• Measurement Technique
• Automatisation Technique

We are engineering service providers for:

• Hardware development
• Software development
• Customer specific system development
• Small series production .

LECIT Consulting s.r.l.

Lecit Consulting s.r.l. is an independent consultancy company.

Main areas of interest and competence of the company are:

• Application architectures
• Information security
• Testing
• Content management systems and Electronic Commerce
• Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).

Main activities of Lecit Consulting in the time frame 2004-2005 are:

• ITS
• Road Transport and Traffic Telematics
• Electronic Fee Collection
• Standardization
• Testing.

Ylum

Ylum Consulting is an independent consultancy company operating in:

1. ITS (Intelligent Transport System) norms and standards.
2. Renewable energies and energy usage optimisation.
3. Process optimisation, requirements collections and requirements management, analysis, technical specifications and project management
4. European and National financing in projects innovation.

Ingenieurbüro für Datentechnik

IFD - Ingenieurbüro für Datentechnik is owned by Dipl. Ing. (FH) Jürgen Fischer.

Main activities are in the areas

• Development of customer-specific software, mainly data base applications, running on WINDOWS.
• Support of any kind for personal computers running WINDOWS.

IFD supported ESF GmbH in several projects.