Safety Intelligence Systems (SIS) will team with IBM as its exclusive information technology partner to provide a comprehensive, telematics-based, automobile-crash information network in Ireland. The network will help answer calls in Ireland for improved road safety. It will also work to speed emergency response, fight fraud and reduce the cost of automobile insurance through the use of customized, in-vehicle data recorders commonly known as “black boxes” in the aerospace industry. The data recorders will immediately notify emergency providers when road crashes occur and provide accurate and objective information about the crashes themselves.
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To collect, secure and facilitate analysis of all information gathered, SIS and IBM will establish the new European Safety Data Vault, which will be housed in Ireland within IBM’s dedicated space in ServeCentric, one of IBM’s strategic hosting business partners based in Dublin. The data is expected to drive change that will result in lives spared, injuries prevented and billions of Euros saved. Public agencies, investigators and policy makers will also benefit from access to timely and accurate crash data.
SIS and IBM are creating the new telematics initiative to help combat increasing automobile crash rates, place downward pressure on presently high vehicle insurance costs and fight crime. The solution, which collects, transmits stores and analyzes accurate crash data, effectively fills a knowledge void unaddressed in Europe until now by traditional crash investigation techniques.
Irish Minister for Transport, Séamus Brennan TD, said: “I am strongly of the view that advanced and sophisticated technology systems have a central role to play in helping to reduce deaths and serious injuries on our roads. While the penalty points system and other initiatives are bringing about reductions in deaths and injuries in Ireland we must also embrace other measures that can play a major role in the prevention of accidents as well as giving valuable insights into the causes of the crashes. I believe Safety Intelligence Systems and IBM’s launch in Ireland of the “black box” technology has the potential to make a significant contribution to this country’s determined efforts to reduce deaths and injuries. I welcome their involvement and I look forward to the impact that this new technology, and other systems that no doubt will be developed in the years ahead, will make to changing driver behavior so that there will be safer roads for all the people using them.”
Presently, the European Union’s goal is a 50 percent reduction in crash-related deaths by the year 2010, using emerging information technology as the key component of its strategy. A major priority is to use automatic call or “e-Call” capabilities from vehicles for immediate notification of crashes to emergency providers. The SIS/IBM solution provides such technology, with data recorders available for installation in vehicles across Ireland by mid 2004.
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By GlobalDataThe technology is however not unique: the UK insurance group Norwich Union has begun trials of a similar system to provide data on mileage and other factors for a “pay as you drive” insurance plan. However, the technology is also IBM’s in partnership with the UK communications group Orange.
Minorplanet, the UK-headquartered vehicle management information group which operates 200,000 vehicles across Europe, is to be the first large-scale customer for the system. The black boxes are to be manufactured by a third partner, Celestica.
