Overview

The main aim of the project is to build a cross-platform software to support development of co-operative in-vehicle services. ICT R&D is needed to facilitate the wide variety of software applications with different characteristics and requirements that shape the future of the European automotive domain. The challenges to be solved are scalability, communication cost, information abundance and service dependability and security.

These problems will be solved with a communication medium agnostic content centric networking platform and improved data processing, fusion and aggregation middleware. The results of the project will be demonstrated in several application domains. In the Portuguese project scope, two demonstrators are foreseen:

• Remote Car Diagnostics
  The goal of remote diagnosis is to provide a new application on top of the CarCoDe platform, which gathers and aggregates information from the car sensors (e.g. connecting to the CAN bus, or other type) such as vibration, temperature, noise, etc, and makes this available for manufacturers (and suppliers) to constantly and automatically monitor. This will allow more efficient and powerfull predictive analysis and proactive maintenance. This can also be used to provide recommendations to the driver.
• City parking
  The goal of the city parking service is to open a new type of service provider (or service for existent providers such as mobile operators). In this service, drivers will inform, either using mobile, web, infotainment (if available), of destination, and intention to park in a particular area. The service will take driver preferences into account (cost, distance, more to be detailed) and try to find the appropriate place, from the set of places that are known to the service (parking areas must provide this info - they also subscribe). The service may optimize multiple driver requests, by taking into account all requests being performed (in that no two drivers are sent to the same place - optimization can be multi-criteria or simply FIFO - this still needs to be defined). The CarCoDe platform is used as the means with which the driver interacts with the service, but also to provide information - mainly position).