MINSK, 8 June (BelTA) – Vehicles made by the Belarusian automobile engineering company MAZ will be fitted with automatic traffic collision report devices ERA-RB starting this year, BelTA learned from Igor Bykov, Deputy Director for Unmanned Aerial Systems, Navigation, and Communication Means of OAO AGAT – Control Systems, the managing company of the holding company Geoinformation Control Systems.
Igor Bykov said: “We've finished all the work to make these terminals. We've obtained all the certificates and intend to start equipping MAZ vehicles with these terminals this year, including vehicles, which are exported, primarily to Russia.”
Belarus-made cars are also supposed to be fitted with these devices. At present the automatic traffic collision report devices are installed in three car models made by the Belarusian-Chinese joint venture BelGee, but the devices themselves are not made in Belarus. A special working group will arrive from China in H2 2018 to negotiate the proposal to use Belarus-made devices.
The ERA-RB terminals are designed to call the emergency services when a traffic accident happens and the driver or passengers are unable to call for aid. The onboard device also allows tracking coordinates of the vehicle, its passport data, and sending the data automatically to the system operator so that the operator could send emergency response units. Igor Bykov specified that they have to make at least 2,210 ERA-RB terminals this year.
Similar systems have been developed in Russia and Kazakhstan. They are compatible, this is why emergency assistance will be called if a traffic accident happens in any of the three countries.
According to Igor Bykov, vehicle tracking services are rather well developed in Belarus. Any vehicle company can sign the contract, including with AGAT – Control Systems, and get complete information about where a specific vehicle is at any given time, including its average speed, driving time, and fuel consumption.
Igor Bykov also mentioned the well-developed legislation as a serious accomplishment. However, different parties work separately to introduce navigation systems in Belarus. “We would like all the systems to be connected and compatible so that we could create a united navigation system in the future,” he said.
Deputy Chairman of the CIS Interstate Council Radio Navigation Viktor Tsarev added that the council is intent on fulfilling the interstate radio navigation programs of the CIS member states. The current program is the fifth one in the series. It was passed in Kazan, Russia in May 2017 in line with the relevant resolution of the CIS Heads of Government Council.
The 50th session of the CIS Interstate Council Radio Navigation took place at premises of the CIS Executive Committee in Minsk on 8 June. The sessions are held twice a year. Participants of the session summed up results of 25 years of work and discussed future tasks. The agenda included the implementation of the fifth CIS interstate radio navigation program, which will run till 2020, the organization of cooperation with the UN International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG), and other matters.
The CIS Interstate Council Radio Navigation was established in 1993 to coordinate and provide consultations for the development and joint use of radio navigation systems by all kinds of transport operators, deal with tasks relating to geodesy, geology, and land management, help create integrated radio navigation fields in the CIS states, and supply all consumers with navigation data.
