We will show-case how Eclipse KUKSA project can help to leverage the advantages of a standardized description of vehicle signals. A large challenge for automotive software is the lack of standardization inside a vehicle. The basic data fabric of a vehicle consists of "signals", such as for example the speed of the vehicle or the state of a door. For this kind of data traditionally there was no standardized way how it is represented or transmitted. This makes even seemingly simple end-to-end applications such as "upload mileage to the cloud" very hard and costly in the industry. With the COVESA Vehicle Signal Specification (https://covesa.github.io/vehiclesignalspecification/) there exist an approach that is currently quickly adopted throughout the industry addressing this by introducing a domain taxonomy for vehicle signals.

KUKSA.val is an Open Source solution that helps transforming and serving such standardised signals inside a vehicle computer enabling faster development of reusable cross-fleet in-vehicle software.