This document discusses using OSGi as an open platform for telematics services to create an interoperable telematics market. It describes the 3GT initiative, which defined interfaces to ensure interoperability across the telematics service delivery chain, including application deployment, remote user sessions, and service subscriptions. Field trials at BMW's Munich test site extended 3GT concepts with additional features. The document concludes that OSGi remote management is key for an open telematics market and that 3GT specifications could be considered for OSGi standardization.

1. Enhanced OSGi remote management
The centrepiece of an open telematics service provisioning chain
Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de

2. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
Outline
! Telematics
! An OSGi-based approach for an open telematics market
! 3GT: enabling interoperability in telematics service delivery
! The 3GT implementation at the Munich test site
! Pushing the boundaries of OSGi Remote Management
! Field trials and interoperability testing
! Conclusions

3. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
What is Telematics?
! Telcos: Teleservice as opposed to bearer service
! Commonly: Telematics = Automotive Telematics
! Historically:
! Voice amplified by some lightweight signalling and information
transfer protocol
! Examples: GATS, ACP
! Recently complemented by WAP and other online services
! Consumer not always the immediate end-point (cf. diagnostics)
! Evolving hybrid service delivery, i.e. involving both, on-board
and off-board components
Services delivered to the mobile user with
specific focus on, or particular added value in
an automobile environment.

4. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
What is wrong withTelematics?
! First generation telematics:
! Hardware-based dedicated single-service solutions
! Standalone, vertically integrated units
! Redundant designs, no synergies
! (Almost) no standardization
! Second generation telematics:
! Partial standardization, especially on the signalling protocol
! Services tightly coupled with information transfer protocol
! Standards suffering from low acceptance and penetration
! Still high degree of proprietary system solutions
! Closed, embedded in-vehicle platforms
While there clearly is a market for telematics, its
potential remains limited due to lack of openness.

5. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
Creating an open market
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Ease of Market Access
Ease of Market Access
Avoid unduly high
barriers of market entry
Freedom of choice in
service consumption

6. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
Service Aggregator – the central role
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Aggregator
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Provider
Service
Provider
Service
User
Service
User
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User
Seeks to deliver
services to all users
Seeks personalized
service selection
Defines „rules“:
• Entry of Service Providers
• Entry of Service Users
• Contractual/Legal
• Financial/Invoicing/Billing
• Cf. Telco Model

7. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
Fragmentation in an evolving telematics value web
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Manufacturer
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Authorities
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Open technical standards are absolutely critical.

8. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
Telematics: current market situation
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Per-OEM vertical implementation.

9. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
Telematics Horizontal Market Evolution.
Transparent networking resources provided
by private telco operators.
Open telematics protocols allows „virtual“
per-OEM telematics on shared infrastructure.
In-Vehicle
Presentation
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Service Providers deliver services anywhere without
having to re-develop service implementations.
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Further standardization will foster
interoperability among 1st tier suppliers.

10. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
An OSGi-based approach for open telematics
Control
Centre
OSGi Terminal
User
User
Register
Service Application Download
Software
Repository
Service
Centers
Service Application Deployment
Service Execution
Service Consumption
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Provisioning
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Remote
Management

11. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
3GT: ensuring interoperability for the delivery chain
Control
Centres
OSGi Terminals
User
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Login
Service Discovery
Service Subscription
Application Install
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Application Packaging
Application Deployment
Service Description
Service Registration

12. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
3GT: in-vehicle service gateway personalization
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Variant Management
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13. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
Implementing 3GT: the Munich test site
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14. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
3GT: extending OSGi Remote Management
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Provisioning
Remote
Management
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BMW Control
Centre
BMW Terminal
Login
Service Discovery
Service Subscription
Application Install
OEM Terminal
Login
Service Discovery
Service Subscription
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AAA, incl. Login
Service Discovery
Service Subscription
Application Sync‘ing
Personal Token Mgmt.
User Profile Mgmt.
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15. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
BMW: software distribution beyond 3GT
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16. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
3GT Munich Site: protoype vehicles
Open architecture:
• Java and OSGi R2 with
InitialProvisioning
• Integration into vehicle dashboard
• High usability through iDrive
controller
• Secure personalization through
token-based authentication and
Multimedia Card storage
• Based on X5 vehicle platform
• Integrated into several other vehicles
(7series, 5series, Mini)

17. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
3GT exemplary Use Case.
Subscribing to a navigation service.
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18. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
3GT Field trials and interoperability experience
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19. Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group Forschung und Technik, hans-joerg.voegel@bmw.de
Conclusions
! Telematics still faces considerable horizontal market challenges
and OSGi is a key enabling technology to address them
! OSGi Remote Management is at the core of an end-to-end service
delivery chain
! 3GT has defined critical interfaces to ensure interoperability:
! Deployment and provisioning of Service Applications
! Remote user session (login) and Service Gateway personalization
! Subscription and service object management
! 3GT specifications proven through extensive field trials
! The 3GT Munich test site has extended the concepts with security,
advanced personalization, vehicle management, and electronic
payment features
3GT results and specification available to OSGi
to be considered for standardization.

20. Questions?