Covesa (GA)

Covesa continued two member-driven collaborative projects in the areas of android automotive and vehicle signal specification (vss). These projects brought together approximately 25 members and 20 non-members to discuss and deliver standard approaches for automakers and their software suppliers. The vss project in particular advanced to version 2 of the specification and enjoyed significant early adoption by several automotive and fleet management organizations. Both of the projects required deliverables to be accessible in public projects where innumerable organizations outside of the Covesa membership (in automotive and non-automotive industries) also benefitted.

Covesa continued to actively align with other standards development and collaborative organizations including w3c, esync alliance, open insurance network and several others under the label of common vehicle interface initiative (cvii). Cvii is an umbrella initiative under which Covesa and several other organizations actively liaise on common approaches for connected vehicle architectures, interfaces and data description. Cvii influenced and/or engaged roughly 1,000 automotive industry participants, goernment-funded technology projects in u.s. and europe and national and international standards bodies like iso.

Covesa continued its semi-annual all member meetings in april and october of 2022. These events were virtual due to the covid-19 pandemic, but still resulted in roughly 100 organizations and 200 people in attendance at each. Both business-level and technical presentations were made from roughly 60 speakers. While the event was not executed until january 2022, Covesa also prepared for a significant showcase and reception event at the ces 2022. This involved contacting roughly 75 organizations for participation and sponsorship. Roughly 40 organizatons agreed to participate and/or sponsor the event.