OSGi-based service gateway architecture for intelligent automobiles

Abstract

This paper describes the OSGi-based automotive specifications that improves the standard and integrates a great many existing automotive protocols and automotive networks. A key element of this specification is the OSGi-based automotive framework, which is open standard based, service-oriented infrastructure for provisioning, managing and developing telematics services. By using the technology of J2ME and extending the dynamic service deployment of OSGi, and integrating intelligent agent society, the mobile devices of automobile can access, download and use the various services from plenty of various service provider. The OSGi-based oriented-service automotive architecture is analyzed from the application and implementation points of view. Finally, the authors depict the tremendous benefits that OSGi platform technology offers in automotive networks and briefly discuss potential future work in this field.