W3C Automotive Activity

What is W3C?

• World Wide Web Consortium
• Standards body for the Web
• Founded by inventor of Web - Tim Berners-Lee
• Hosts: MIT, Beihang, Keio, ERCIM
• ~450 members

Why is W3C doing Auto Standards?

• Need for a robust application ecosystem
• Future of transportation will require interoperability
• Reduce fragmentation by competing proprietary approaches
• More developers for the Web than any other platform
• Web has proven itself and transformed industries
• Connected vehicles will be relying on Web services
• W3C has a long history of providing higher level interfaces to developers

Rich in-vehicle application ecosystem

• Telematics - W3C VISS (Vehicle Information Service Specification)
• Notifications
• Media
• LBS/Nav
• Payments
• Other areas under consideration

W3C Vehicle Information Service Specification (VISS)

• Service on the vehicle
• Common data model (JSON)
• ~1000 signals, more to be added, extensible
• Web Sockets, next gen also HTTP REST
• Granular accesss control per application
• Requests or Subscribe (stream)

Implementers

Data at center of transportation transformations

• Electrification
• Usage instead of individual ownership
• Autonomous Vehicles - Artificial Intelligence data driven decisions
• V2v, V2i, V2x - SmartCities, IoT
• Delivering content, products and services digitally
• Insurance carriers, predictive maintenance, fleet management, other industries and government regulators

Openness == Innovation

• Open standards, imperative
• Open source, useful
• Open data, caveats

Creating open marketplace

• Useful in vehicle but also want to get it out
• Task force exploring off-boarding and in-cloud challenges
• Handling privacy concerns (GDPR) with Policy language
• Increase power of data with Semantic Web Technology
  BMW/Eurecom ontology work on our common data model
• Increase value of data - metadata on sampling methodology, edge computing, accuracy, availability
• Conclusion: W3C will be forming broader Transportation Data activity

Primary stakeholders

• Auto Manufacturers
• Tier 1s
• Payment processors
• Solution and Content Providers
• Telcos
• Government entities

• Fleet Management
• Independent garages
• Fuel and service companies
• Insurance Companies
• Aftermarket

Get Involved

• Wider, diverse perspective
• Ensure your segment needs met
• Lead change
• Promote adoption

Follow-up: ted+auto@w3.org