SIM Legal Metrology Working Group

Activities in 2008

Group Meeting

Quito, Ecuador

March 10, 2008

Training course – Quito, Ecuador

Software and hardware authentication for fuel dispensersMarch 11, 2008

Outline: General considerations about conformity evaluation concerning hardware and software specifications.

Hardware verificationTechnical information from the manufacturers.Dispenser’s peripherals.

Software verificationAuthentication process.Validation process.

Implementation of audit trail

Software authentication practicesReading firmware of integrate circuits and using cryptographic reduction.Reading software through communication ports and using cryptographic reduction.

Training courses

Quito, Ecuador

March 12, 2008

Standard capacity measures for testing measuring systems for liquids other than water.

(OIML R 120)

Dynamic measuring systems for liquidsother than water.

(OIML R 117)

Training course

Quito, Ecuador

March 13 and 14, 2008

Quantity of product in prepackages

(OIML R 87)

Metrological requirements for a prepackage.

Reference test for metrological requirements.

Statistical and general principles of control.

International Seminar on Software in Legal Metrology

August 27 and 28, 2008

Buenos Aires

Participants from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica,

Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Instructors from PTB, INTI and CENAM.

Survey on training needs:

What are the priorities of each country or subregion?

Nonautomatic weighing instruments

Liquid fuel dispensers

Evidential breath analyzers

Taximeters

Prepackages

Instruments for measuring vehicle exhaust emissions

Equipment for the measurement of the speed of vehicles

Clinical thermometers

Two additional events scheduled for 2008 and early 2009

CARIMET (plus Belize)

Dates and subjects to be defined.

CAMET and ANDIMET

Dates and subjects to be defined.