PD ISO/TS 13499:2019

What is PD ISO/TS 13499 - Multimedia data exchange format for vehicles about?  

PD ISO/TS 13499 is the international standard on road vehicles that discusses multimedia data exchange formats. 

PD ISO/TS 13499 presents a simple means for the exchange of multimedia data on impact tests between different laboratories. A format has been developed which defines a directory structure and the exchange information as ASCII files. 

Who is PD ISO/TS 13499 - Multimedia data exchange format for vehicles for? 

PD ISO/TS 13499 on a directory structure and data exchange format for road vehicle is relevant to: 

• Road vehicle engineers 
• Vehicle data file organization 
• Information exchange and communication systems 

Why should you use PD ISO/TS 13499 - Multimedia data exchange format for vehicles? 

Data Exchange Format means a machine-readable data format intended or suitable for redistribution or sharing of data between software applications. 

PD ISO/TS 13499 navigates you through the general requirements on: 

• Physical units specifying that all data shall be expressed in SI units 
• Data types that are integer, float and string, 
• For integrity, where data are unavailable, insert the reserved word “NOVALUE” as the data value 
• Filename convention 

PD ISO/TS 13499 defines file types that deliver information files that consist of a sequence of information lines. 

PD ISO/TS 13499 guides you through the creation of data files that consist of a header section and a data section involving comment files. 

All files relevant to a certain test are kept in a standard directory structure, as specified in PD ISO/TS 13499. 

Test information file data formats and descriptor explanations are given in electronic documents specified in PD ISO/TS 13499. 

Overall, PD ISO/TS 13499 could guide you through the data exchanges format that provides one-stop-solution to discover and acquire data sources, analyze new data and revenue operations to provide a mechanism that is capable of describing product data throughout the life cycle of a product. 

What’s changed since the last update?  

PD ISO/TS 13499:2019 supersedes PD ISO/TS 13499:2014. PD ISO/TS 13499:2019 includes some technical changes with respect to PD ISO/TS 13499:2014. These include: 

• ASCII 32 is the code for a space, therefore "blank" was changed to "spaces"  
• 6.1 was modified to allow more than one static measurement data file 
• The static subdirectory has been changed to contain the information file instead of the data file