1、BSI Standards Publication Postal services Interface and data transfer format for capturing postal automation events IDT-PAE PD CEN/TS 16919:2016National foreword This Published Document is the UK implementation of CEN/TS 16919:2016. The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical
2、Committee SVS/4, Postal services. A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary. This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application. The British Standards Insti
3、tution 2016. Published by BSI Standards Limited 2016 ISBN 978 0 580 91100 2 ICS 03.240; 35.240.99 Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations. This Published Document was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 30 April 201
4、6. Amendments/corrigenda issued since publication Date Text affected PUBLISHED DOCUMENT PD CEN/TS 16919:2016 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION SPCIFICATION TECHNIQUE TECHNISCHE SPEZIFIKATION CEN/TS 16919 April 2016 ICS 35.240.99; 03.240 English Version Postal services - Interface and data transfer format for
5、capturing postal automation events IDT-PAE Services postaux - Format dinterface et de transfert des donnes relatives la capture des vnements sur des quipements postaux automatiss This Technical Specification (CEN/TS) was approved by CEN on 11 February 2016 for provisional application. The period of
6、validity of this CEN/TS is limited initially to three years. After two years the members of CEN will be requested to submit their comments, particularly on the question whether the CEN/TS can be converted into a European Standard. CEN members are required to announce the existence of this CEN/TS in
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10、 form and by any means reserved worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. CEN/TS 16919:2016 E PD CEN/TS 16919:2016CEN/TS 16919:2016 (E) 2 Contents Page European foreword . 4 Introduction. 5 1 Scope 7 2 Terms and definitions 7 3 Symbols and abbreviations. 17 4 Generic Postal Process . 19 4.1 Gener
11、al . 19 4.2 Postal operations 21 4.2.1 General . 21 4.2.2 Collection . 21 4.2.3 Sorting centre- for further transportation (Outward sorting) 21 4.2.4 Transport 22 4.2.5 Sorting centre-distribution (Inward sorting) 22 4.2.6 Distribution (Delivery office / in office activities) . 22 4.3 Postal activit
12、ies in postal operations 23 4.4 Postal events 25 4.4.1 General . 25 4.4.2 Handover Events . 27 4.4.3 Processing Events . 29 4.4.4 Storage Events . 35 4.4.5 Transport Events 36 4.4.6 Delivery Events . 36 4.4.7 Delivery 37 4.5 Business Steps . 38 5 MIS Interface 40 5.1 General . 40 5.2 Information abo
13、ut processes which move Items 40 5.2.1 General . 40 5.2.2 Item 40 5.2.3 Object / Product 41 5.2.4 Location . 42 5.3 Classification of Postal Business Events in EPCIS data model 42 5.3.1 General . 42 5.3.2 Business steps in EPCIS 46 5.4 The impact of events on MIS . 48 6 Data Collection and Transfer
14、. 48 6.1 General . 48 6.2 Process Integration and Service Oriented Architecture 49 6.3 Process Integrations Platform . 49 6.3.1 General . 49 6.3.2 Common components of integration platform 50 6.4 Message based process integration platform 51 7 Data Storage and Format . 53 PD CEN/TS 16919:2016CEN/TS
15、16919:2016 (E) 3 7.1 General . 53 7.2 Data storage in a Repository 53 7.2.1 General . 53 7.2.2 EPCIS Repository 54 7.3 Data formats . 56 7.3.1 Data levels . 56 7.3.2 Identification 56 7.3.3 Capture . 57 Annex A (informative) Typical Postal Industry MIS interfaces. 59 Annex B (normative) EPCIS standa
16、rd summary reference 61 B.1 Overview 61 B.2 EPCIS Event and Master Data example . 63 B.3 EPCIS Data Exchange Components . 63 B.4 Services Approach 63 B.5 Relationship to the EPC global Architecture Framework 64 B.6 Elements of the EPCglobal Architecture Framework 65 B.7 EPCIS Specification Principle
17、s . 66 B.8 EPCIS Specification Framework 66 B.9 Layers . 66 B.10 Extensibility 69 B.11 Modularity 69 Annex C (normative) EPCIS Data Model assessment with respect to a standardised MIS interface . 70 C.1 General . 70 C.2 Vocabularies . 70 C.3 Locations . 70 C.4 Extension points . 71 C.5 Prospective a
18、ssertions . 71 C.6 Event Types 71 C.7 Capture application . 71 Annex D (informative) Object Data Model definition in the postal process (Items and Aggregations) . 73 Bibliography . 83 PD CEN/TS 16919:2016CEN/TS 16919:2016 (E) 4 European foreword This document (CEN/TS 16919:2016) has been prepared by
19、 Technical Committee CEN/TC 331 “Postal services”, the secretariat of which is held by NEN. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN and/or CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent ri
20、ghts. This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CEN by the European Commission and the European Free Trade Association. According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to announce this Technical Specification
21、: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,
22、 Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom. PD CEN/TS 16919:2016CEN/TS 16919:2016 (E) 5 Introduction This Technical Specification will be in the series of the Open Standard Interfaces defining manufacturer independent interface definitions where needed. All Sorting equipment of the differen
23、t manufacturers in a sorting centre produce data which are relevant for service planning, machine and staff planning, optimization of machine utilization and other sorting centre management relevant data. On the other hand the major suppliers for postal IT systems have developed MIS systems for thes
24、e or other purposes. In sorting centres with mixed machinery and one or more MIS systems, data need to be converted for integration. This Technical Specification will allow to define a common interface to avoid these multiple conversions and by this save costs in the postal business. See Figure 1. F
25、igure 1 Open Interface Illustration As a conscious decision of the Project Team work it is assumed MIS standard will be an instance of EPCIS standard with specific application of this Technical Specification to the Postal Process that will be modelled in the chapters. The Technical Specification wil
26、l then go through a number of significant events of the process that an MIS interface should contain in order to guarantee the interoperability of different proprietary MIS systems and different Postal Sorting equipment. Focus of the development is: The specification will allow interfacing postal pr
27、ocesses in order to gather information which shall be prepared for presentation/aggregation to higher-level systems; The specification will not be in favour of one vendor over another; The specification will not be specific to a programming language, operating system or hardware; The specification w
28、ill be specific enough, to allow any standards-compliant equipment to be connected to standards-compliant higher level systems and get at least basic functionality without any customization; The Data Model will use well-established terms, e.g. taken from the UPU data model, which are suitable to des
29、cribe postal processes accurately; PD CEN/TS 16919:2016CEN/TS 16919:2016 (E) 6 The Data Model will categorize the information sent and received (e.g. into status, event, control- message) and define standards for each of these categories; The specification will allow for vendor-specific or equipment
30、-specific variations. The scope of these variations will be limited (otherwise we would not have a standard at all); The specification will provide for future extensions and modifications, such that future versions do not break existing installations; It will have to be easy to implement an interfac
31、e which is compliant with this standard; The specification will define how to prevent unauthorized access, preferably by referring to an existing security standard; The specification will use well-established technologies for Data Transport; The specification will use established standard for Data F
32、ormat; The specification needs to state minimal requirements for data volume and frequency as well as the permissible latency which an implementation needs to comply to. PD CEN/TS 16919:2016CEN/TS 16919:2016 (E) 7 1 Scope An IDT-PAE interface enables interoperability among several systems and proces
33、ses by providing specifications to the following requirements: a) Data Collection and Transfer: Specification of data transported from the devices to higher level systems. There may be more than one permissible protocol referring to different OSI layers. The standard will define where the communicat
34、ion requires polling and where asynchronous messages are used. The basis is messages triggered by events. b) Data Storage and Format: Specification how data is formatted and structured. This concerns the choice between XML, CSV, EDI, JSON and other formats including possible binary representations.
35、c) Data Model: Specification of the semantics (meanings) behind the data. This is the most important part and the one of the most important objectives for the specification. This means that conceptual data model and its mapping to the Data Format will be developed. Major focus on specifications leve
36、l of detail will be placed in order to provide a document that will provide detailed specification information without being too general or too specific. 2 Terms and definitions For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply 1) . 2.1 acceptance process of examining a ma
37、il induction unit at the acceptance location, to ensure that the mail is acceptable for postal processing and that the postal operator may take responsibility for it 2.2 acceptance location location at which responsibility for a mail induction unit is handed over from the mail submitter to the mail
38、service contractor 2.3 acceptance of postal processing completion of the process of ensuring that mail can legally be conveyed by post, fulfils postal system requirements, regarding size, addressing, etc. and that correct postage has been paid or is chargeable under normal contractual arrangements 2
39、.4 activity work performed by people, equipment, technologies or facilities 2.5 addressee party that is the intended ultimate recipient of a postal item 1 )The terms and definition in this document are defined in the UPU Standard glossary, Date of approval 26 February 2014, in the bibliography and i
40、n this document. PD CEN/TS 16919:2016CEN/TS 16919:2016 (E) 8 2.6 aggregate assignment (packaging) assignment of an item or (lower-level) aggregate to a (higher-level) aggregate of mail which is to be handled as a unit during the next processing or transportation step(s) 2.7 aggregate break-up (unpac
41、king) decomposition of an aggregate into its component mail items and/or lower-level aggregates 2.8 application identifier numeric prefix to a data structure that defines the content, format and intended interpretation of the data 2.9 attribute named characteristic of an entity which can be expresse
42、d by a data value 2.10 bar code symbol consisting of a series of printed bars representing values 2.11 business information system business information systems represent a system of controls and processes which a business uses to analyze information needed to effectively manage their business 2.12 b
43、undle mail unit whose physical constraint is a band or wrapper 2.13 clearance operation of collecting postal items deposited at access points 2.14 control protocols provides reliable, ordered, error-checked delivery of a stream of octets between programs running on computers connected to a local are
44、a network, intranet or the public Internet 2.15 code value, taken from a particular code list, which is used in messages to represent one of the possible data values forth data element covered by the code list 2.16 collection method of mail induction in which customers deposit mail in unmanned depos
45、itories (posting boxes) which are periodically emptied by the mail service contractor or its agent PD CEN/TS 16919:2016CEN/TS 16919:2016 (E) 9 2.17 consignment set of one or more receptacles of a particular mail category, using a common transport on a particular occasion, from a specific place of lo
46、ading to a specific place of final destination 2.18 containerization process or act of packaging one or more mail units into a receptacle to simplify handling and transportation 2.19 data element smallest logical unit of data, about a postal item, aggregate or receptacle, which might need to be comm
47、unicated between postal applications 2.20 data captured automatically identifying objects, collecting data about them, and entering that data directly into computer systems 2.21 data collection and transport collection and distribution of information to virtually any device or system 2.22 data forma
48、t standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file 2.23 data model used in two related senses. In first sense it is a description of the objects represented by a computer system together with their properties and relationships; these are typically “real world“ objects such as
49、products, suppliers, customers, and orders. In the second sense, it means a collection of concepts and rules used in defining data models: for example the relational model uses relations and rules, while the network model uses records, sets, and fields 2.24 data storage technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data 2.25 data transfer physical transfer of data (a digital bit stream) over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel 2.26 delivery operators postal enterprise which
