Data Expert Group Workshop Face to Face: July 18-19, 2023 Cologne, Germany - Interface Pillar Alignment

Workshop Purpose

• Achieve consensus and alignment at a high level on the purpose/why of the following Interface Pillar projects. 
• Drill into interface definition, translation and exchange and emerge with a focused collaborative plan for execution with near term wins

Overview

There are 4 projects/initiatives in the DEG Interface Pillar that have emerged over the years with varying level or agreement by members.  Common agreed service and interfaces specifications that align around a common data model have become increasingly important to the connected vehicle ecosystem, as such, they have become central to COVESA.  These common interfaces and data model are critical to enabling the future.  It is time to come to agreement and align this pillar and projects in the industry.

Projects

IFEX - general interface description and transformation technology

Vehicle Services Catalog - service/API descriptions for vehicles in a standard catalog

Vehicle API - expose vehicle data as defined and described by COVESA's Vehicle Signal Specification to a  variety of agreed upon touch-points in and out of the vehicle 

W3C VISS - service for accessing vehicle information, signals from sensors on control units within a vehicle's network.

VSS - vehicle data model.

Architecture

Data Centric Architecture 

Data Expert Group Architecture Diagram

Topics

The above projects fall into these four topics:

• Service Capabilities - what does the service do?  For example, adjust seat, adjust hvac, play media, monitor driver, etc...
  • VSC 
• Service Catalog - a list of service capabilities
  • VSC
• Interface definition, translation and exchange
  • IFEX
• Data servers (pub/sub, get/set service and data model they serve) 
  • VISS
  • Vehicle API

High Level Proposed Agenda Items: (Please Comment/Propose Items)

9-10am - Overview of Interface Pillar and Purpose of Current Projects

10-12am - Drill into the requirements of interface definition, translation, and exchange

12-2pm - Execution planning for interface definition, translation, and exchange

2-5pm - Drill into requirements of Service Capabilities and Catalog

Location:

(TBD)

Cologne, Germany