Problem statement

1. Drivers (may) own cars and produce data
2. Data is stored by the entity who created/deployed the device to the car
3. New data driven businesses need to access the data

As of today, there is no unified way of handling consent, and data access across all parties. Everything is handled individually by the parties involved.

Desired state

1. Drivers and owners produce data based on consent
2. Data is stored by the entity who created/deployed the device to the car if consented by the owner
3. This entity defines terms and conditions to access the stored data
4. Interfaces allow the access to data protected by state of the art security measures and access control
5. We create a goto-place where all participants can go and explore
6. Everyone can onboard and register for accessing the data according to the predefined terms and conditions
7. Curated/processed datasets, models, and other things can be made available again

Solution outline

A data exchange platform is a managed environment with:

• a unified access across data sources (OEM, service providers),
• with the ability to search for specific data set
• a well defined SLA and legally compliant,
• a proper separation of safety relevant and regulated data,
• straight access to a number of data points,
• very low data consumption on transport side,
• upload to any data store,

protected by

• access right management, rate limitation and a paywall,
• state of the art security measures,

to increase attractivity, usefulness and visibility to third party developers, experimenting with their business ideas

To enable scale, all must be self-services. No human interaction is required to onboard users, cars, new services.

Two options are possible. Direct data access after onboarding (bypassing the OEM cloud) or indirect access via the OEM cloud. For different use cases, different options might be the best. tbc

For different development phases, not only car data can be utilized but also recorded data in a data lake (served by the playground) or synthetical data provided by a service. Especially for testing/validation purposes this seems very useful.

This is the project space where everything around the data exchange platform will be hosted.