1、BSI Standards PublicationPostal services Interface and data transfer format for capturing postal automationevents IDT-PAEPD CEN/TS 16919:2016National forewordThis Published Document is the UK implementation of CEN/TS 16919:2016. The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to TechnicalCommi
2、ttee SVS/4, Postal services.A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained onrequest to its secretary.This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions ofa contract. Users are responsible for its correct application. The British Standards Institution 20
3、16.Published by BSI Standards Limited 2016ISBN 978 0 580 91100 2ICS 03.240; 35.240.99Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity fromlegal obligations.This Published Document was published under the authority of theStandards Policy and Strategy Committee on 30 April 2016.Amendments/cor
4、rigenda issued since publicationDate Text affectedPUBLISHED DOCUMENTPD CEN/TS 16919:2016TECHNICAL 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 capturing postal auto
5、mation 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 validity of this CEN/
6、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 the same way as for a
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10、 reserved worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. CEN/TS 16919:2016 EPD 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 General . 19 4.2 Postal oper
11、ations 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 activities in postal operation
12、s 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 about processes which move
13、 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 . 48 6.1 General . 48 6
14、.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 16919:2016 (E) 3 7.1 Ge
15、neral . 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 standard summary reference 61
16、 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 Principles . 66 B.8 EPCIS Specif
17、ication 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 assertions . 71 C.6 Even
18、t 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 Technical Committee CE
19、N/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 rights. This document has
20、 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: Austria, Belgium, Bul
21、garia, 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, Sweden, Switzerland, T
22、urkey 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 different manufacturers in a so
23、rting 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 these or other purposes. In
24、 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. Figure 1 Open Interface
25、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 will then go through a num
26、ber 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 processes in order to gat
27、her 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 will be specific enough,
28、 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 describe postal processes
29、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-specific variations. Th
30、e 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 interface which is compliant wit
31、h 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 Format; The specification
32、 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 processes by providing specifi
33、cations 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 communication requires polling and
34、 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. c) Data Model: Specifica
35、tion 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 level of detail will be plac
36、ed 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 apply1). 2.1 acceptance process of examining a mail induction unit at the a
37、cceptance 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 service contractor 2.3 acc
38、eptance 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 2.4 activity work performed
39、 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 in this document. PD CEN/TS
40、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 (unpacking) decomposition of an a
41、ggregate 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 expressed by a data value 2.10 bar
42、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 bundle mail unit whose physi
43、cal 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 area network, intranet or the
44、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 depositories (posting boxes) whi
45、ch 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 loading to a specific place o
46、f 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 communicated between postal app
47、lications 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 format standard way that informa
48、tion 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 products, suppliers, custom
49、ers, 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 delivery the postal it
