VSS - Vehicle Signal Specification

The Vehicle Signal Specification (VSS) is a COVESA project that has been under development for several years.

Starting in 2020, COVESA and W3C then started the Common Vehicle Interface Initiative and VSS was proposed as potential starting point to achieve an industry-common data model. 
At the start of 2022 VSS is now being adopted widely and continues to be the assumed starting point for determining an industry-common way to describe data

Examples:

• VSS is being adopted or required in industry software platforms, such as its use in the AWS Fleetwise platform.
• VSS is being linked into projects like the Open Insurance Think Tank (OPIN) data definitions.

The VSS project develops two independent but inter-related aspects of data exchange:

1. The definition of how to define vehicle signals according to the VSS Model rules
2. The definition of a proposed VSS Standard Catalog, containing a variety of agreed-upon data item definitions, organized as a tree.

These are both described in the corresponding GitHub project and its documentation.

As a complement to the specification, develop VSS-related software technologies:

    3. Open-source licensed tools to transform and work with VSS are in vss-tools.