ISO 15031-5:2011 Road vehicles - Communication between vehicle and external equipment for emissions-related diagnostics - Part 5: Emissions-related diagnostic services
This part of ISO 15031 is intended to satisfy the data reporting requirements of On-Board Diagnostic (OBD)
regulations in the United States and Europe, and any other region that may adopt similar requirements in the
future. This part of ISO 15031 specifies:
a) message formats for request and response messages,
b) timing requirements between request messages from external test equipment and response messages
from vehicles, and between those messages and subsequent request messages,
c) behaviour of both the vehicle and external test equipment if data is not available,
d) a set of diagnostic services, with corresponding content of request and response messages, to satisfy
OBD regulations.
This part of ISO 15031 includes capabilities required to satisfy OBD requirements for multiple regions, model
years, engine types, and vehicle types. Those regulations are not yet final for some regions, and are expected
to change in the future. This part of ISO 15031 makes no attempt to interpret the regulations and does not
include applicability of the included diagnostic services and data parameters for various vehicle applications.
The user of this part of ISO 15031 is responsible for verifying the applicability of each clause of this part of
ISO 15031 for a specific vehicle, engine, model year and region.
This part of ISO 15031 specifies diagnostic services and functionally addressed request/response messages
required to be supported by motor vehicles and external test equipment for diagnostic purposes which pertain
to motor vehicle emission-related data. Any external test equipment meeting the requirements of ISO 15031-4
use these messages to retrieve emissions-related information from the vehicle.
Each clause in this part of ISO 15031 which specifies additional details to existing sections of ISO 9141-2,
ISO 14230-4, SAE J1850, and ISO 15765-4 supersede those specifications.
This part of ISO 15031 references SAE J1979-DA (Digital Annex), which includes all definitions of PIDs,
OBDMIDs, TIDs and INFOTYPEs.
This part of ISO 15031 provides the mechanism to satisfy the requirements included in the country-specific
regulations and not all capabilities included in this part of ISO 15031 are required by the country-specific
regulations. This part of ISO 15031 is not considered a final authority for interpretation of the regulations.
Therefore readers should determine the applicability of capabilities defined in this part of ISO 15031 for their
own specific needs.
ISO 15031-5:2011 Referenced Document
ISO 14229-2 Road vehicles — Unified diagnostic services (UDS) — Part 2: Session layer services*, 2021-10-12 Update
ISO 14230-2 Road vehicles - Diagnostic communication over K-Line (DoK-Line) - Part 2: Data link layer*, 2016-08-01 Update
ISO 14230-4:2000 Road vehicles - Diagnostic systems; Keyword protocol 2000 - Part 4: Requirements for emission-related systems
ISO 15031-1 Road vehicles - Communication between vehicle and external equipment for emissions-related diagnostics - Part 1: General information and use case definition
ISO 15031-2 Road vehicles - Communication between vehicle and external equipment for emissions-related diagnostics - Part 2: Guidance on terms, definitions, abbreviations and acronyms
ISO 15031-3 Road vehicles — Communication between vehicle and external equipment for emissions-related diagnostics — Part 3: Diagnostic connector and related electrical circuits: Specification and use*, 2023-02-06 Update
ISO 15031-4 Road vehicles - Communication between vehicle and external equipment for emissions-related diagnostics - Part 4: External test equipment*, 2014-02-01 Update
ISO 15031-6 Road vehicles - Communication between vehicle and external equipment for emissions-related diagnostics - Part 6: Diagnostic trouble code definitions*, 2015-08-01 Update
ISO 15765-4 Road vehicles — Diagnostics on Controller Area Networks (CAN) — Part 4: Requirements for emissions-related systems*, 2021-07-30 Update
ISO 9141-2:1994 Road vehicles; diagnostic systems; part 2: CARB requirements for interchange of digital information
ISO/IEC 10731 Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection - Basic Reference Model - Conventions for the definition of OSI services
ISO/IEC 7498-1 Information technology — Open Systems Interconnection — Basic Reference Model: The Basic Model
SAE J1979-DA Digital Annex of E/E Diagnostic Test Modes (See Also SAE J1979; Includes Access to Additional Content)*, 2021-04-01 Update
ISO 15031-5:2011 history
2015ISO 15031-5:2015 Road vehicles - Communication between vehicle and external equipment for emissions-related diagnostics - Part 5: Emissions-related diagnostic services
2011ISO 15031-5:2011 Road vehicles - Communication between vehicle and external equipment for emissions-related diagnostics - Part 5: Emissions-related diagnostic services
2006ISO 15031-5:2006 Road vehicles - Communication between vehicle and external equipment for emissions-related diagnostics - Part 5: Emissions-related diagnostic services