6.8.2.2: Provide Traveler Emergency Communications Function

This process shall prepare and send an emergency message from a traveler's personal portable device to the Manage Emergency Services function. The message shall only be sent by the process in response to data received from another process that monitors traveler inputs. Once an emergency message has been sent, the process shall send a message to that effect to another process for output to the traveler. The process shall then await a response from the Manage Emergency Services function, and when received again send a message to the other process for output to the traveler. Output of the emergency message to the Manage Emergency Services function shall be repeated by the process at regular intervals until a response is received.

This process is associated with the Personal Information Device physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

• Personal Emergency Notification

This process is associated with the following data flows:

• emergency_message_traveler_output
• emergency_request_personal_traveler_acknowledge
• emergency_request_personal_traveler_details
• fopid-emergency_notification_relay_from_other_personal_device
• fopid-emergency_request_personal_device_details
• fopid-emergency_request_remote_personal_device_acknowledge
• topid-emergency_notification_relay_to_other_personal_device
• topid-emergency_request_personal_device_details
• topid-emergency_request_remote_personal_device_acknowledge
• traveler_personal_emergency_request