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Abstract—Advances in the field of engineering have resulted in Taking into account the new advances and trends in the
vehicles becoming a digitised source of data from which scenarios research field of vehicle engineering, our work lists a number
of Quantified Vehicles emerge. Even though the benefits and of challenges starting from a trend, coined as the “Quantified-
range of emerging services are ample, several challenges cap the
extent of opportunities, such as determining the business benefits, self” (QS) or “Quantified Vehicles” (QV), which occurs as
as well as constructing and operating an independent, scalable, the world is becoming more and more equipped of smart
and flexible platform ensuring e.g. privacy, accountability. In our connected things with sensors and actuators. Nevertheless,
work in progress paper, we propose a conceptual architecture of the business and technical benefits are not entirely obvious,
a generic IoT platform for enabling such data-driven services for i.e., how can they be reaped in a successful way, and several
the vehicle domain, while considering important characteristics,
such as data security and privacy, improved service operations, contenders (from start-ups to automotive suppliers, manufac-
safety and value creation for end-users. We then describe how turers up to large software companies) are in the search of the
this platform can be demonstrated, including the vehicle gateway optimum platform and position to host and release it. Thus, a
device (Vehicle Data Logger) capturing the vehicle data, to finally popular trend is the search of a universal Internet of Things
enable a set of useful and usable data-driven services for vehicle (IoT) platform from a variety of emerging commercial and
drivers and other stakeholders.
open source solutions. There are specific requirements that
need to be satisfied, including offering functionality that opens
I. I NTRODUCTION , M OTIVATION AND G OALS
up to new opportunities and more rigid challenges, such as
Automotive electronic systems nowadays expand rapidly privacy, safety and complying with regulations, e.g., the EU
and massively in becoming fully connected and capable of regulation of data privacy enforced recently in all businesses
extended functionalities. Modern vehicles typically consist of (General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR) and the General
several dozens Electronic Control Units (ECUs) linked to Safety Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 in the automotive sector.
communication networks processing data to ensure a vehicle’s Our work in progress paper describes the conceptual ar-
functionality. This rapid development is even more visible chitecture of a generic IoT platform to support security,
in the advances in vehicle software which are increasing safety, automation, operations and management, based on
both in complexity and functionality, relying on platforms the concepts mentioned above and the new advances and
developed entirely for the automotive domain (e.g., the stan- trends outlined, enabling data-driven services in the vehicle
dard Automotive Open System Architecture - AUTOSAR). domain. As a preliminary proof-of-concept, we have developed
These denote extended software programming development a demonstrator which supports two-way connectivity needs of
environments with underlying subsystems, including language, third-party cloud services for quantified connected vehicles.
runtime, components and other associated libraries. Our proposed solution accepts, stores and processes vehicle
These recent developments offer a range of possible service data obtained from a Vehicle Data Logger connected to the
types classified in [1] as: (i) product services, to extend a OBD-II interface of the vehicle. Raw vehicle data is then
product with new or improved functionality (usually targeting analysed on our proposed cloud-based platform with a focus
an end-user group), (ii) process services, to improve the oper- on extracting driving styles and behaviour. The paper shows
ation of a product as part of a larger process (often oriented to how our solution enables the operation and management of
the product owners and having limited control over the actual third-party access to collect, store, transform, process and
product development), (iii) lifecycle services, to use data in visualise data, and then feeding back the result to human
ways that improve the associated lifecycle processes, including drivers or other stakeholders.
predictive and preventive maintenance (usually targeting the The main contribution of our paper is the presentation of
manufacturer of the product), and, (iv) extended services, use a generic IoT platform, building on open source technologies
data from products to improve the operation of decoupled to and containers, for seamlessly enabling novel data-driven con-
the product products or services (targeting administrators and nected vehicle services. We then validate our platform through
governments). a demonstrator, that is feeding interesting information, related