Introduction

0.1 Background

The need for standardized communication with ITS field devices is growing around the world. Several countries have adopted Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) based field device communication standards.

There is a growing view and empirical evidence that standardizing this activity will result in improved ITS performance, reduced cost, reduced deployment time, and improved maintainability. The ISO 20684 series extends ISO 15784‑2 by defining the management information necessary to monitor, configure and control features of field devices. The data elements defined in all parts of ISO 20684 series may be used with any protocol but were designed with an expectation that they would be used with one of the ISO 15784‑2 protocols.

By using this approach, agencies can specify open procurements and systems can be expanded geographically in an open and non-proprietary manner, which reduces costs, speeds up deployment, and simplifies integration.

0.2 Overview

SNMP is a collection of well-thought-out and well-proven concepts and principles. SNMP employs the sound principles of abstraction and standardization. This has led to SNMP being widely accepted as the prime choice for communication between management systems and devices on the internet and other communications networks.

The original implementation of SNMP was used to manage network devices such as routers and switches. Since then, the use of SNMP has grown into many areas of application on the internet and has also been used successfully over various serial communications networks.

This document defines management information for ITS field devices following the SNMP conventions.

0.3 Document approach and layout

This document defines:

a) the conformance requirements for this document (Clause 4);
b) a set of user needs for user-defined trigger conditions that can “fire” to initiate actions (Clause 5);
c) a set of detailed requirements for the identified user needs (Clause 6);
d) a set of custom dialogues for notification management (Clause 7);
e) security considerations for the information defined in this document (Clause 8);
f) the management information bases that define the data for the defined requirements (Annex A);
g) the requirements traceability matrix (RTM) that traces the requirements to the design elements (Annex B).

PD ISO/TS 20684-4:2022

Intelligent transport systems. Roadside modules SNMP data interface - Notifications

Current, Under Review

Published:

30 Nov 2022