METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DETERMINE VEHICLE TYPE IDENTIFICATION TROUGH DIAGNOSTIC PORT

摘要

A method carried out in a System comprising a Diagnosis plug-in device (1) a host server (2), diagnostics database suppliers (4), on-board ECUs (3), the method comprising: /a/ couple the diagnosis plug-in device to the diagnosis port (8) of a vehicle of interest, said vehicle of interest having a certain vehicle type, said vehicle type being defined at least by the Make/Model/Year/Powertrain of the vehicle of interest, Ibl cause the diagnosis plug-in device to listen on a diagnosis, receive frames broadcasted by onboard ECUs and detect therefrom a Bus Active condition, Ici after said Bus Active condition, détermine a frame profile according to characteristics of the received frame-IDs, /dl/ détermine vehicle type from the frame profile, with the help of a frame profile lookup table (22,22a) held in the diagnosis plug-in device (1) and/or in the host server (2), /e/ provide a diagnosis stacks dataset database (23) at the diagnosis plug-in device (1) and/or at the host server (2), comprising, for each recorded vehicle type, a diagnosis stacks dataset or a link thereto, said diagnosis stacks dataset comprising at least available request/answer services for the vehicle type of interest.