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Common Vehicle Interfaces Meeting Topics and Meeting Notes

Apr 24, 2025





This page intends to contain the agenda for next meeting and notes from previous meeting. 

General Agenda

  • Welcome and Compliance statement

Welcome to the COVESA Common Vehicle Interfaces Meeting!

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Agenda discussion - anything that needs to be added?

  • Prioritized Topics:

    • Capabilities - create a list of common vehicle capabilities/function to be expose via api

    • IFEX (Interface Exchange) - a general interface description and transformation technology 

    • uServices - definition of common vehicle services usimg protobuf as the interface definition language

    • Vehicle Signal Specification over Data Distributiion Service 

    • Vehical Information Service Specification (VISS) -  a service for accessing vehicle information, signals from sensors on control units within a vehicle's network. It exposes this information using COVESA Vehicle Signal Specification (VSS).

    • Vehicle API - will 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

    • Hierarchical Information Model (HIM)

    • Interface Blueprint

Agenda 2025-04-24

  • VISS

    • Still on track - RC2 - open for review until April 25

    • Anyone building production version?  Unknown.

  • IFEX

    • Find common time for regular meeting - Paul and Gunnar to synch

    • Call for experts in AUTOSAR

    • Synch with Volvo

  • AMM

Agenda 2025-04-10

  • VISS

    • RC2 - open for review until April 25

  • EU Data Act

  • IFEX

  • AMM

Agenda 2025-03-27

  • IFEX

  • AMM

  • CDSP

  • VISS

  • EU Data Act

  • This meeting date/time

Agenda 2025-02-25

Agenda 2025-01-28

  • Meeting Cadence

    • Will move to every other week

  • AMM Proposals

  • IFEX

    • Worked on quality related topics/issues

    • Testing setup instruction on other platforms e.g. Mac

    • Short dev meeting last week

    • AI:  @Paul Boyes to put meeting notes up

    • Will discuss IFEX with Eclipse SDV

    • Keep Eclipse SDV informed

  • VISS

  • CDSP

    • VISSr updated to v3.0

    • Testing and updating documentation

  • Eclipse SDV

    • Project SCORE - microprocessor harmonized middleware - https://eclipse-score.github.io/

    • Attend if you can

    • V0.5 reference implementation at end f 2025

    • Add COVESA VSS and VISS.  Eclipse Kuksa is intended to be linked as well 

  • Capabilities

  • EU Data Act  Meeting - Meeting tomorrow - See Community Calendar

  • Data Echange Platform

Agenda 2025-01-21

Agenda 2025-01-14

  • IFEX

    • Variant type supported

  • Capabilities

    • Work continues getting to the point of opening up

  • EU Data Act

    • Important to data marketplace

  • Data Marketplace

    • Swen to update diagrams

  • VISS

    • 3.0 release on track

    • First RC soon

  • CDSP

    • Semantic reasoning being added

    • Update VISS version

    • update iotdb

  • AMM

    • May 12 - 14

      • Possibility of workshop

      • Call for tech sessions soon

  • China

    • Apache IoTDB



Agenda 2024-12-17

Agenda 2024-12-10

  • EU Data Act Project 

  • IFEX Dev Meeting

    • Reviewed current codebase

      • How to organize

        • Make it easier to understand

      • Cleanup

    • How and where to contribute

    • AI:  Setup next meeting - after New Year, Wednesday 4pm CET

    • AI:  Get feedback on license change

      • DEG

      • Contributors

  • Capabilities

    • Reorganize 

  • ACEA 

    • 6 european truck manufacturers looking for in vehicle api.  Ready to elaborate

    • Request to setup a Liaison Agreement regarding FMS in vehicle api

      • Type of membership needed?

    • How to proceed

      • Reuse fleet management

      • AI:  create charter  - (Look at Commercial Vehicle EG charter) Achim, Paul 

Agenda 2024-12-03

  • IFEX Dev Meeting is tomorrow December4 at 7am PT / 4pm CET

  • IFEX Web viewer repo

    • Waiting for update from DEG chairs

  • IFEX Licensing 

    • Preferred to get community interest

    • MPL 2.0 not clear on generated code - in other words generated code could be protected under license.

    • Apache appears to be the desired license of some

    • AI:  Paul to make a request to the community for feedback

  • IFEX Update

    • Logo is ready

  • EU Data act proposal

  • Automotive API

    •  Ulf was asked to join next Thursday's meeting to discuss VISS 3

    • AUTOSAR release event on Dec 5.

  • Data Exchange Platform

    • Presented in Commercial Vehicle meeting.  Got some feedback.

    • Action Item:  Please provide feedback

    • Swen discussed with MS for prototype.  There are potentially funds available.

    • MS working with Eclipse SDV

  • Playground - CDSP

    • Knowledge layer work continuing

  • Capabilities - Seat

    • Workshop

  • VISS - v3.0

    • On time plan/path to be feature complete at end of year

  • IFEX/ ARXML translater

    • Setting up repo like Automotive API

Agenda 2024-11-26

  • IFEX Dev - meeting date/time - December 4 at 7am PT / 4pm CET

  • VISS

    • Still on track to release version 3 by May AMM

    • Achim/Bosch to define and clarify performance measurements and requirements

  • Commercial Vehicles

    • FMS in vehicle API requirements

    • Action Item:  @Paul Boyes to reachout to @Steve Crumb regarding adding Standardization to Board Agenda in Dec.

  • IFEX

    • Logo previews coming - continuing the design

    • IFEX web viewer

      • Propose to publish a binary in npm package format with different maintainers - IFEX Viewer

        • Web browser viewer - shows different layers

      • Action Item @Paul Boyes to send request for review of IFEX Viewer repository

      • What is he license? 

        • The quickest way is likely MIT

      • Action Item:  Request comment/decision IFEX license change when ready.  IFEX license change may be proposed

  • VSS Viewer in the past aside or in addtion to playground.digital.auto?

    • In VISS v2 there was a simple viewer

  • Capabilities overview

  • SDV Alliance - Status?

Agenda 2024-11-19

  • IFEX Dev - meeting date/time

  • Data Exchange Platform

  • Architecture

    • When do we need to map to an architecture?

    • What will it look like

      • 2 types of apis were discussed:  data and service

  • Commercial Vehicles

    • rFMS refers j1939 - how does the ip align?

      • Achim to send email to Tim from SAE to ask.

Agenda 2024-11-12

  • ARXML<>IFEX

    • There is a path forward with AUTOSAR.  

  • IFEX

  • Capabilities

    • Update

    • Question as to whether an API is being designed at this point  

      • Answer - No...Aligning OEMs are aligning on Seating Capability



Agenda 2024-11-05

  • ACEA (FMS)

    • Liaison agreement - Achim to sent email 

    • To work with Commercial Vehicle Expert Group

  • IFEX dev meeting request to interested parties and GM, Volvo, and others

  • IFEX

    • Franca to IFEX - please review

    • Publishing two blog posts - on IFEX GitHub wiki

    • Design at Mbition will produce logo for IFEX

  • ARXML <> IFEX  

    • Meeting in AUTOSAR evaluating working model.   Gunnar to provide status next week.

  • Capabilities Project

Agenda 2024-10-29

Agenda 2024-10-22

  • ARXML to IFEX - Mikael Nicklas Hoeret and Pinglei

  • Should we start a IFEX development group meeting 

    • Yes - Paul to send out message to interested parties.

  • Capabilities project with OEMs moving forward 

Agenda 2024-10-15

  • ARXML Interoperability Introduction

  • Summary of TST review of API Design and Standardization

Agenda 2024-10-08

  • IFEX update

    API standardization is presented to the TSC on Oct 14th 

Agenda 2024-10-01

Agenda 2024-09-10

  • IFEX update presentation from Gunnar next week.

  • Workshop Agenda to go out tonight.

Agenda 2024-09-03

  • Data Marketplace

    • presentation

  • Standardization

    • Drafting and SAE compliant layout

      • Easiest path to start.  Can leverage moving to intl orgs

    • How will this affect current VSS work?

  • IFEX update presentation from Gunnar next week.

Agenda 2024-08-27

  • VISS Status

    • No meeting last week

  • CVIS

    • Demo from 20240826 

  • IFEX

    • Nothing new on GitHub

    • Connecting with AUTOSAR

    • Web viewer still a work in progress

  • Central Data Service Playground

    • Committed the extended data processing capabilities with example of advance data reduction

  • Silli Auto - APIGear presented in VSS will present here as well if desired

  • API Standardization

    • finalize "API-standardization charter V1.0" : Proposed Charter

    • Review and Comment on API Standardization -  Presentation

  • Technical Summit/Workshop

    • Sept 24th

  • AMM

  • Data Marketplace

    • present to this group next week

  • Reverse Geolocation API 

    • Opportunity to work with Google 

  • Capabilities

  • vsomeip



Agenda 2024-08-20

  • VISS Status

    • Version 3 before AMM in April

      • Not mandate transfer protocol. 

      • Mandate payload

    • AUTOSAR has chosen v2.0

      • Reviewing documents

    • v3.0 will support GRPC

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