Open roads ahead: Collaborating on a SDV reference implementation for commercial vehicles

This talk, presented by Carlton Bale from Cummins and Priyaa Gurunathan from Allison Transmission, explores collaboration in creating a reference implementation for software-defined vehicles (SDVs) targeted at the commercial vehicle sector. The speakers discuss the importance of open source components in building a shared architecture that addresses industry challenges such as cost constraints, hardware variability, and long lifecycle requirements. They showcase a prototype that utilizes containerized workloads orchestrated between cloud and vehicle environments, integrating projects like KUKSA for vehicle signal abstraction and uProtocol for communication. The session emphasizes creating portable applications capable of seamless operation across different OEM platforms, contributing to the development of interoperable and scalable SDV systems.