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Navigate the many opportunities and privileges for your organization with your COVESA membership!

ABOUT COVESA  

COVESA welcomes collaboration on all connected vehicle projects supporting vehicle, edge and cloud services, interfaces and data exchange. Members enjoy a variety of benefits including participating in a vibrant buyers and sellers network.is the only alliance focused solely on developing common approaches and technologies for connected vehicles, which now form a growing percentage of vehicles on the road.

We are well-aligned to address opportunities and challenges in the automotive industry, which is experiencing a digital transformation driven by fundamental customer expectations.

COVESA is focused on three core challenges, which are the foundation for our current active collaborations:
1.    Keep the In-Vehicle Digital Experience Up-to-Date
2.    Embrace the Customer’s Digital Life
3.    Integrate Vehicles into Broader Mobility Solutions

Information on COVESA can be found on our website , Wiki and COVESA overview presentation. A and Wiki along with a complete list of our Board and Officers can also be found on the COVESA website..

News & Updates

Stay current on what’s happening with COVESA and receive our newsletter and important updates. Email help@covesa.global to be added to the list. 

All Member Meetings & Events

Twice a year, COVESA holds All Member meetings featuring both business-level and technical content, as well as the popular Member Showcase and Reception. COVESA also attends and speaks at various industry events and holds showcase and networking receptions annually at CES and AutoTech: Detroit. 

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Steve Crumb

Executive Director

scrumb@covesa.global

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Paul Boyes

Community Director

pboyes@covesa.global

Mike Nunnery

Business Development Manager

A list of upcoming and past COVESA events can be found on the COVESA website. If interested in sponsoring or participating in a COVESA Reception & Showcase event, contact Mike Nunnery at mikenunnery@comcast.net.

Key Contacts

COVESA key contacts for operations, technical community, membership, marketing and events are listed below. Contact the COVESA Help Desk for general membership questions and Wiki access.  

mikenunnery@comcast.net

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Thomas Spreckley

Marketing Team Lead

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Traci Renner

Branding & Messaging Manager

trenner@inventures.com

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Karin Hanson

Senior Events Manager

karinha@khansonevents.com

GET INVOLVED

COVESA welcomes new members to add to its strong, active base of current members working together to shape the future technologies of connected vehicles and the mobility ecosystem. 

Learn more about our various collaborative projects, expert groups, and Birds of a Feather (BoF) projects and how to start getting involved using the various tools and resources listed below. 

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Groups & Projects

COVESA Groups and Projects are organizational structures for members to collaborate on the advancement of connected vehicle systems, software-defined vehicles, and mobility ecosystems. Learn more about each group and project and how to get involved here.

COVESA Wiki

You can track COVESA activities on our Wiki at wiki.covesa.global. If you have not already received your login credentials or if you need to add access for a colleague, please contact help@covesa.global. 

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COVESA code is openly available in GitHub and more information on COVESA projects can be found on the COVESA Wiki.  

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.  

Data Expert Group

The Data Expert Group (DEG) provides a single group in which best practices and common approaches for connected vehicle data and interfaces are discussed, documented, and where appropriate, proved. A primary goal of the group is to facilitate, simplify, and reduce integration efforts and improve interoperability enabling focus on new experiences, business opportunities and revenue streams.

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Best Practices

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Data Models & Ontologies

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Data Architecture & Infrastructure

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Interface Definition

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Vehicle Signal Specification (VSS): 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.

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COVESA

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Vehicle API: Exposes vehicle data as defined and described by VSS to a variety of agreed upon touch-points in and out of the vehicle.

Vehicle Service Catalog (VSC): A standardized, extensible vehicle service catalog and associated tools to enable protocol, language, and specification-agnostic interoperability between ECUs, infotainment, and cloud.

Vehicle Information Service Specification (VISS): A joint effort between W3C and COVESA hosted by W3C. It is a service for accessing vehicle information, signals from sensors on control units within a vehicle's network. It exposes this information using COVESA VSS.

EV Charging Expert Group

• EV Charging Event Data Aggregation Project

• EV Optimization - Increase Travel Range for Fixed Battery

• Private Cross OEM Joint Compute for EV Charging

The Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Expert Group is where common and novel approaches around EV charging are discussed, documented, and proven including but not limited to delivering great EV experiences, optimization of resources, exploring new business models, EV ecosystem, and alignment with standards.

The 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.

The EV Optimization - Increase Travel Range for Fixed Battery team aims to develop a standard specification for power optimization and demonstrate features/scenarios by POC.

The Private Cross OEM Joint Compute for EV Charging group provides technical solutions to address the challenges of sharing data.

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Automotive AOSP App Framework Expert Group

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Automotive Cybersecurity Team

The Automotive Cybersecurity Team addresses a growing number of standards and topics enhancing cybersecurity in the vehicle, including data security and privacy. 

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Simulation & Tooling

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The digital.auto initiative 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. The playground can be utilized to build a portfolio of COVESA-supported use cases with high appeal to OEMs. This will help OEMs to fully utilize COVESA standards in the context of digital business models.

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Vehicle Experience and Content / Entertainment BoF

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The Vehicle Experience and Content / Entertainment BoF provides a community for members to discuss, learn, and validate ideas and thought leadership as related to vehicle experience. 

• In-Vehicle Payment SIG

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The In-Vehicle Payment SIG explores standard and novel approaches for in-vehicle commerce and payments.

COVESA MARKETING & BRANDING

As a member-driven organization, it’s critically important COVESA members elevate, amplify and promote COVESA and their contributions to the alliance.

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The COVESA brand guidelines were created to facilitate and inspire communications that will present a clear and consistent identity for COVESA. To ensure proper usage of COVESA logos and branding, please follow the COVESA Brand Guidelines. You can also find COVESA logo files and a PowerPoint template on the Wiki here.

COVESA Blog

The COVESA blog features news, technology project updates and implementations, member profiles, and member roundtables. Please email marketing@covesa.global if interested in contributing a blog article or participating in a member roundtable or profile article. 

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Please take a moment to connect with COVESA and support us on our social media platforms and please share and communicate news about COVESA on your social media channels.

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• Follow COVESA @COVESAglobal and share /retweet our news
• Tag COVESA when appropriate – @covesaglobal

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• Follow COVESA at Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance and “Like”, “Share” and comment on our posts to extend the reach of our news
• Tag COVESA when appropriate – Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance

Key Contacts

COVESA key contacts for operations, technical community, membership, marketing, and events are listed below. Contact the COVESA Help Desk for general membership questions and Wiki access.