October 23, 2015 – Business Group F2F at GENIVI AMM In Seoul

We will be having a face to face meeting on October 23, 2015 in Seoul Korea in conjunction with the GENIVI All Member Meeting.  If you plan on attending please register for the meeting here:

https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/61259/20151023_BG_F2F_SEOUL/

Hotel information and GENIVI registration can be found here:

http://genivi.org/amm-2015-october

I hope to see you there!

Santa Clara Face To Face Summary

Thanks to all who came to the W3C Automotive Business Group’s third face to face in Santa Clara on March 17th and 18th. It was a well attended, productive meeting with over 20 participants from Access, Continental, Daimler, Elektrobit, GM, Google, Intel, JARI, KDDI, LG, OBIGO, OpenCar, Openstream, Pandora, PSA, QNX and W3C. There was very good discussion (and action items) around the maturing vehicle information specification and group direction as well as some excellent presentations by W3C staff, KDDI, OBIGO, Elektrobit, and Continental.

Here are the highlights:

• Presentations
  • W3C – Specification Process
  • KDDI – Overview of Use Cases & Requirements for Vehicle Data API
  • OBIGO – Navigation and FM Tuner APIs
  • Continental and Elektrobit – Introduction to GENIVI speech services
  • W3C – Creating an Automotive Working Group
  • W3C – Creation of Interest Task Forces (subgroups)
    • Example of Task Force Handling Rule
    • Example of Task Force Charter Template
  • KDDI – Discussion Points of Security Strategies
• Vehicle Information Specification
  • Action item list to spec completion
    • Split spec into two docs: one for interfaces that will not change (durable) such as the VehicleInterface (getting/setting data) and one for data interfaces that are likely to come, go and/or change
    • Add better handling, at a global level, for units of measure/localization
    • Add better facility for extensibility of data interfaces
    • Add facility for availability/capability
    • Address interface grouping/categories
    • Address location – which specs to reference?
    • Address get history
    • Fill out supported use cases
    • Address relationship to visual data if appropriate – What to reference?
    • Address additional specs to be referenced as appropriate
    • Move sections from guidelines to specs
      • Overview
      • Security section reference. see KDDI presentation too
  • Continuation/formalization of Vehicle Information Task Force (small group that has been working on spec)
  • Vehicle Information Task Force to complete spec by May 23
• Group Direction
  • Timeline laid out to potentially create an automotive working group by October 2014
  • Potential Task Force Groups
    • Multimedia in vehicle
    • Navigation
    • Speech and Multi-modal
    • Security
    • Containerization and off-line storage – managing in a secure way
• Next face to face will be on May 23 in conjunction with the GENIVI All Member Meeting

Immediate action items for the group are as follows:

• Create timeline, actions and assignments for Vehicle Information Spec completion. ***Please let us know if you are interested in participating. We will start moving forward starting early next week.***
•  Form task forces. ***Please let us know if you would like to form and lead a task force.***
• Set up next face to face at GENIVI AMM on May 23. ***Please let us know if you can attend.***

Thanks again to everyone who attended.

February News

A lot of exciting news:

• Next face to Face meeting at Intel in Santa Clara CA on March 17th and 18th
• New co-chair nomination: Welcome Paul Boyes
• New participants
• Vehicle API draft in final discussion

and a lot of new subjects in progress.

Also, we followed up on an interview request by Telmatics Update – excerpt below, full article at

http://analysis.telematicsupdate.com/infotainment/html5-silver-bullet-automotive-app-development

“For more than a decade, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been at work on a set of coding standards intended to enable a single piece of code – be it for an app or a website – to display across a broad range of connected devices. And the automotive industry has been paying close attention, hoping this new set of standards, known as HTML5, would increase the number of apps available for the connected vehicle, or, at the very least, bring down development costs.

By the look of it, the W3C, which acts as the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web, is getting close. In December 2012, it published the complete definition of HTML5 specifications – an actual set of standards is expected before the end of this year. And the connected car industry is now part of the official process. The W3C’s Automotive and Web Platform Business Group launched in February 2013, and the first draft of an HTML5 automotive standard is expected in April.”

2014 January News

Happy new year
The Automotive business group has been very active in the last weeks with a lot discussions about the vehicle API and the next Face to Face meeting.
Some discussions in progress to finalize the date for this meeting.
Let’s keep in touch for more news