- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:33:54 -0600
- To: w3c-news@w3.org
Hello,
We issued a media advisory a moment ago:
Automotive Industry Launches W3C Group for Bringing Web to Cars
http://www.w3.org/2013/02/autobg.html.en
There are links in the online version, and the text and testimonials are below.
Any translations and new testimonials will be available at:
http://www.w3.org/Press/Releases-2013#autobg
Media contact:
Ian Jacobs, <w3t-pr@w3.org>, +1.718 260 9447
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http://www.w3.org/ — 21 February 2013— W3C announced today the new
Automotive and Web Platform Business Group to accelerate the adoption
of Web technologies in the automotive industry. The group convenes
developers, automotive manufacturers and suppliers, browser vendors,
operators and others to discuss how to enhance driving, safety, and
passenger entertainment with the Open Web Platform. The group will
first focus on defining a Vehicle Data API that will create new
opportunities for automotive services via the Web.
"The W3C's API initiative arrives just as OEMs are laying the
groundwork to bring the browser into the car via multiple means," said
Roger C. Lanctot, associate director in the Global Automotive Practice
at Strategy Analytics. "Car makers will be looking to the W3C to help
identify best practices for over the air software updates and security
and the launch of the new Business Group will provide the ideal forum
for those conversations."
Mobility is Driving Industry Convergence
W3C first explored the impact of the Open Web Platform on the
automotive industry at the November 2012 Web and Automotive
Workshop. Participants discussed how location-based services, enhanced
safety, entertainment, and integration of social networking will
benefit drivers and passengers. In addition, they looked at business
drivers for Web technology adoption such as the ability to attract
customers with convenient and innovative services, maintain ongoing
customer relations, address regulatory requirements, manage mobile
payments, and lower development costs.
The more than 40 organizations that participated in that conversation
expressed broad consensus that HTML5 is a compelling platform for
providing these services and lowering the risk of fragmented
solutions. The new Automotive and Web Platform Business Group picks up
where the Workshop left off.
"Open standards are essential to the successful evolution of in-car
telematics and infotainment, and HTML5 offers the right platform to
build automotive apps, create innovative services, and enable
automobiles to become first-class citizens of the Web," said Andy
Gryc, automotive product marketing manager at QNX Software
Systems. "I'm thrilled at the prospect of contributing to the group
and its mandate of defining an industry-standard Vehicle Data API."
New Group Will Accelerate Adoption of Web Technologies for Automotive
The initial plans of the new Business Group are to:
* Create specifications, starting with a Vehicle Data API Specification.
* Create conformance tests to cover new specifications that get defined.
* Provide use cases and other reports to identify additional needed
standards work and to drive successful automotive web deployment.
W3C invites all organizations and individuals interested in bringing
the Web and automotive industries together to join the Automotive and
Web Platform Business Group.
W3C Business Groups give W3C Members and non-Members a vendor-neutral
forum for collaboration on the development of the Web in the
near-term. Business Groups do not create W3C standards, but they do
develop reports, use cases, requirements, and other forms of input to
the W3C standardization process. About the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C)
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About W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium
where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work
together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission
through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to
ensure long-term growth for the Web. The Open Web Platform is a
current major focus. Over 375 organizations are Members of the
Consortium. W3C is jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM)
headquartered in France, Keio University in Japan, and Beihang
University in China, and has additional Offices worldwide. For more
information see http://www.w3.org/
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Testimonials
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AKQA
As we move towards a world where everything is connected, the car
will become even more central to an individual’s life than it is
today. From our depth of experience in developing connected car
solutions, we know the possibilities for the future are
infinite. AKQA is proud and excited to be part of the W3C
Automotive Business Group. We are looking forward to collaborating
with some of the best automotive people in the world: to create
and validate standards that will support seamless digital
connectivity between the car, driver, passengers and wider.
- Ben Jones, Chief Technology Officer, AKQA
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BMW
The Web Platform is of great importance for BMW and we are very
interested in the possibility of utilizing industry standards
within the automotive environment. Furthermore, we believe web
technologies will play an important role in the future for us –
enabling rapid development of infrastructure and applications by
taking advantage of both a proven and robust platform as well as a
broad base of developers.
- Maximilian Michel, Domain Architect Browser, BMW AG
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DFKI
The mobile Web has not yet reached our main means of mobility:
cars. DFKI regards automotive as key for developing innovative,
ubiquitous & productive Car2X services. Via traffic and danger
warnings, the standardization of Car2Car communication will also
improve traffic flow and safety. And we need a standardized API
for seamless integration of automotive infotainment infrastructure
and smart, personalized devices.
- Reinhard Karger, Corporate Spokesperson, DFKI
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eBay / PayPal
Automobiles are mobile devices too, and the same challenges
apply. PayPal and eBay are very pleased to see W3C moving ahead
with standards for the 21st century Internet and look forward to
participating in this effort. Both in the area of developing new
standards and harmonizing globally among multiple competing
technologies, W3C has a role to play in the future of connected
driving.
- Daniel Austin, Principal Architect, PayPal
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KDDI
Automotive is a new frontier for web services, and their
convergence brings rapidly evolving technologies into an
automotive industry. As a result, a car driving will become a
total life support experience that supports seamless services from
home to a car. Furthermore, it will also assist human to live more
exciting and sustainable life. On the other hand, safety is the
most important requirement, and collaboration of automotive and
web industry is necessary for the successful innovation of the
life. Therefore, KDDI strongly support the establishment of Web
and Automotive Business Group.
- Satoru Takagi, Advisory Committee Representative, KDDI AC Representative
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Openstream
Openstream, as one of the co-authors of the W3C Multimodal
Architecture Standard and a contributor to several web speech and
open source initiatives, is very pleased to share its expertize in
context-aware multimodal technology and collaborate with partners
in the automotive industry to promote the application of
context-aware multimodal technology and interfaces for bringing
web to cars as part of the W3C Automotive and Web Platform
Business Group.
- Raj Tumuluri, President, Openstream Inc
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Visteon
As one of the major automotive Tiers 1, Visteon is investigating
various technologies to create an appropriate eco-system to speed
up the HMI development for his Customers: Visteon has clearly
identified that Web technologies can tremendously reduce the
time-to-market for automotive solutions. The adoption of HTML5
will definitely contribute in creating quickly apps which will
enrich the features set proposed by the OEMs to their Customers.
As a member of GENIVI, Visteon reinforces its strategy to provide
Open solutions on his platforms by joining the W3C Automotive and
Web Platform Business Group. Through this business group
participation, Visteon wants to share his experience and specify
his needs taking also into account the efforts already done by the
GENIVI domain to correlate both initiatives.
- Pierre Sigrist, Software Manager, Visteon
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Vodafone
Vodafone Group R&D is happy to support the new W3C Automotive
Business Group. We have been working together with the W3C for a
while in activities such as the Web and Automotive Workshop last
November in Rome. We believe such activities and this Business
Group are key in order to push the adoption of Web technologies in
cars and bring automotive applications to the masses. Doing so has
the potential of creating new opportunities for developers,
service providers and a wealth of choice of car applications for
users.
Standardization of a Vehicle API will boost interoperability
regardless of manufacturers and enrich automotive applications
with vehicle data, which would increase security and user
control. We believe the W3C is the right organization to ensure
correct design and sandboxing of such an API so that it does not
interfere with other vehicle functions; they have already been
doing this for years, i.e. standardizing a large number of Web
APIs that run securely in the browser's runtime. We look forward
to starting collaboration with other industry players through this
business group.
- Diana Cheng, Web & Social Media Expert, Internet Standards, R&D, Vodafone Group
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Webinos
Promoting a 'single service for every device' vision, webinos
delivers an open source platform that securely connects all user's
devices, such as mobile phones, TV sets and in-car units. In that
context, webinos was a proud sponsor of the Nov. 2012 W3C Web and
Automotive workshop that led to the creation of this exciting
newly launched W3C Automotive and Web Business Group.
- Dr. Stephan Steglich, webinos scientific coordinator, Fraunhofer FOKUS
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Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
Tel: +1 718 260 9447
Received on Thursday, 21 February 2013 16:34:00 UTC