VSS Resources at a Glance

This page is an aggregation of links to various Vehicle Signal Specifications resources.  It is intended to provide a quick reference access to everything VSS.  If you do not find what you are looking for or see things that are missing, please let us know.

COVESA VSS Wiki

The VSS page on this wiki is a good starting point that leads/points to all of the other locations.   

• VSS One-Pager - High level overview of VSS
• Understanding VSS - Presentations and decks starting with an introduction to those unfamiliar with VSS followed by some deeper dives into VSS and related VSS Ontology
• Weekly Meeting - Weekly meeting time and link

GitHub

GitHub is where almost all of the VSS project work is maintained.  The main page contains links to   

• Documentation

• A straight forward set of topics that give a good overview of VSS

• Releases

• Release links with lists of what has changed

• Specification/Catalog

• VSS specification refers to the standard catalog. It is maintained in yaml.  It is fully expected that not everyone will implement all data elements/signals and they will likely implement some number of proprietary elements/signals.  VSS is still a useful methodology/rule set for defining interoperable models.

• Tools

• Tools are maintained in a separate repository

• GitHub Project wiki

• VSS project team uses the VSS wiki for documenting a variety of things including releases.

• Pull Requests 

• All edits and updates are presented to the team through Pull Requests and are discussed in weekly meetings.

• Issues

• All issues are tracked through GitHub issues

Presentations and Decks

• Introduction to Vehicle Signal Specification on COVESA AMM Spring 2022

How and where VSS is used?

There are various implementations where VSS is used as data model for vehicle data.  Beside several closed-source implementations, here are the ones that were shared publicly:

• Aos Edge - A software first approach to the connected vehicle
  • Repositories
• Eclipse Kuksa - Building blocks for the Software Defined Vehicle
  • Repositories - scroll down to see the repositories
• AWS IoT Fleetwise - Fleet Management software
  • Repositories
• W3C Vehicle Information Service Specification - data service for serving VSS data on multiple topologies

W3C Projects

• • Vehicle Information Service Specification (VISS) 
    • VISS Core
    • VISS Transport
  • Vehicle Signal Specification Ontology
    • VSSo Core
    • VSSo