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Commercial Vehicle Expert Group
Meeting Schedule
Weekly on Wednesdays at 6am PT / 9 am ET / 3pm CET
If you do not have a Google account, please see the Community Calendar
Weekly Agenda and Meeting Notes
See page Commercial Vehicle BoF - Weekly Agenda and Meeting Notes
Alignment with other efforts
To avoid duplication of efforts and potential leveraging of different organizations' solutions, we are actively reaching out and discussing this COVESA activity with the following. Do please make Thomas and Ted aware of other initiatives that we might want to coordinate with.
Ford EV Range Prediction - an additional data sampling campaign to be able to collect consistent data across OEM for range prediction calculations based on in-vehicle observations and external factors.
ITXPT IT for Public Transportation - J1939 based standards for public transportation buses in Western Europe
VDV standards for public transportation buses in Germany - J1939 based and coordinates with ITXPT and FMS
FMS HD OEM led standards in EU for fleet telematics
MDS initiative that is related to Catena-X for telematics cloud exchanges
Expert Group Kickoff/Workshop planning
Early September 2024, at least a week or two before AMM where we also hope to get someone on main stage as well as tech track breakouts
scraped - not able to get confirmation in time
Promotion on LinkedIn, COVESA Mailchimp, COVESA blog
Record proceedings (Zoom, Webex) and make available from Expert Group wiki
Agenda building
EG launch, overview/update (25 min)
High level problem, goal of establishing VSS marketplece, experiences/issues with OEM and other cloud offerings
Industry verticals
Insurance*
Road safety - severity of incident - consistent assessment would be preferred
Fleet logistics*
Predictive maintenance HR906
Remote diagnostics and warranty extension based on vehicle assessment
EV
Updates including CVIS, SDV Blueprint,
Insurance focus (25 min)
aiden/VISS demo for CV - confirm with Ulf ?
Data sampling - Mike Branch (data scientist, leads workshops with OEM on importance of sampling methodologies) (30 min - optional - can do during EG call and record instead)
Ecosystem (future work - spin up group on eg consent - what else is needed to enable robust marketplace) (45 min)
mostly setup for Consent/Privacy and future ecosystem work
Charter and resources
Deliverables
Product | Charter Stakeholder | Status | Release Target | Resources and comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fleet Management Data Campaign | ETAS, Geotab | Basic complete, needs better packaging and promotion | Q1 2026 | |
Insurance Data Campaign | MOTER, Allianz, Geotab | Basic complete, needs better packaging and promotion | Q1 2026 |
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Emergency Response Data Campaign | COVESA Connected Safety BoF collaboration | Proposed, initial alignment | TBD |
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Vehicle Theft Data Campaign for reporting to law enforcement | MOTER, Allianz, Geotab | Leveraged German insurance association signals and expanding | TBD | Will get assistance from Connected Safety on reporting, need to engage eg LowJack and other entities to advance |
Battery Health |
| Ideation | TBD | Leverage EU Battery Passport, interest from eg CARB, Cox others |
Emissions and continuation inspection data campaign | Geotab | Ideation | TBD | Various government (countries and US state entities) are starting to require regular emissions data for heavy duty and passenger vehicles. Leverage CARB and fleet contacts to get momentum |
EV Range Prediction | Ford | Abandoned as other effort stopped | - |
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FMS signal isn VSS and onboard API | Bosch, Geotab | In progress | Q4 2025 | Intent to leverage VISSv2, in discussion with SAE re J1939 usage in signal map |
ATA TMC RP1230 API | Geotab, Sonatus, Volvo Group | Paused awaiting ATA Study Group 12 to resume | Q3 2025 | Socialized in ATA, intend to make a push at their Spring 2026 meeting |
Trailer signals |
| Started, coordinating with VDM group | ||
Upfitting | Ford | Awaiting SME |
| additional signals for specialised trailers or equipment on vehicels eg plow, salt sander, refrig |
Driver data | Geotab | Potential submission of Verifiable Claims based data model for driver’s license and vehicle registration to VDM group from government entity | ||
Diagnostics and ECU Firmware | Cummins, Cox |
| - | Possibly extend VSS and/or a separate domain in VDM |
Github Repo
COVESA Community Calendar
The COVESA Community Calendar contains all open COVESA meetings.
Commercial Vehicle Group Mailing List (Google Group)
https://groups.google.com/a/covesa.global/g/commercial-vehicles
Slack Channel
COVESA Community Workspace Invite:
https://join.slack.com/t/covesacommunity/shared_invite/zt-1eul7g8g0-Kj9p~Guk4Khv3rlPUy5flw
Commercial Vehicle Channel:
https://covesacommunity.slack.com/archives/C058E8YT6LW