Collaborative Projects
COVESA members launch and contribute to a variety of collaborative projects that advance the mobility ecosystem and focus on accelerating connected vehicle systems. Active projects include:
Data Expert Group
Data Models
- Vehicle Signal Specification (VSS) is a common approach for describing vehicle data and is a widely adopted, developer-friendly, extensible data model and catalog with industry-supported tooling.
- Vehicle Signal Specification Ontology (VSSo) facilitates the use of VSS in analytics and services.
Common Vehicle Interfaces
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Capability and use case identification.
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IFEX is a general interface description and transformation technology.
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uServices is a definition of common vehicle services using protobuf.
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Vehicle API exposes vehicles as defined and described by VSS to a variety of agreed-upon touchpoints in and out of the vehicle.
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Vehicle Information Service Specification is a joint effort between W3C and COVESA hosted by W3C. It is a service for accessing vehicle information and signals from sensors on control units within a vehicle's network. It exposes this information using COVESA VSS.
Architecture
- Data Architecture Terminology drives understanding and adoption of COVESA specifications and technical projects through the definition of reusable common architectural terminology and patterns realized with technical implementations, and proofs of concept.
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Central Data Service Playground is a neutral playground to investigate internals and combinations of data services on and off of the vehicle in the context of data-centric architectures.
Electric Vehicle Charging Expert Group
- EV Charging Event Data Aggregation Project focuses on the standardization of data and APIs that will enable and leverage shared big data at a large scale to deliver great charging experiences.
- EV Optimization - Increase Travel Range for Fixed Battery team aims to develop a standard specification for power optimization and demonstrate features/scenarios by POC.
- Private Cross OEM Joint Compute for EV Charging group provides technical solutions to address the challenges of sharing data.
Security Team
- Automotive Cybersecurity Team addresses a growing number of standards and topics enhancing cybersecurity in the vehicle.
Automotive AOSP App Framework Expert Group
- Automotive AOSP App Framework Expert Group identifies gaps between AAOS with GAS and AAOS without and proposes, and specifies and/or develops white label solutions/alternatives. Only topics either not being available for OEMs using AAOS without GAS or not available at all will be tackled within this group to avoid fragmentation across the automotive industry.
Simulation & Tooling
- digital.auto aims to support OEMs in the adoption of VSS, SdV, and COVESA standards by making it easy to rapidly explore the feasibility of new business ideas and features through an online playground.
Vehicle Experience and Content – Entertainment BoF
- In-Vehicle Payment SIG explores standard and novel approaches for in-vehicle commerce and payments.
Commercial Vehicle Birds of a Feather (BoF)
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Commercial Vehicle BoF identifies issues and gaps in the practical use of VSS for commercial vehicle fleets.
Connected Safety Birds of a Feather (BoF)
- The goal of the Connected Safety BoF is to help motorists avoid crashes, minimize the consequences of crashes should they happen, and expedite recovery.
COVESA code is openly available on GitHub and more information on COVESA projects can be found on the COVESA Wiki.
Learn more on how to get involved in the COVESA Getting Started Guide.