Let's DO - Automotive Platform for Interoperability

Developing automotive software applications is one of the most challenging and time-consuming activities in the automotive product development cycle. As of today, classical automotive software applications communicate exclusively using vehicle-specific communication protocols such as Controller Area Network (CAN) and FlexRay communication buses. Automotive applications communicate using transport layer messages that are defined and configured for each vehicle system (car model). This hard-wired design makes out-of-the box integrations between heterogeneous automotive products virtually impossible. It also renders automotive integration projects to digital world (smart devices, cloud, big data, IoT gadgets) hard to develop and maintain. We present in this paper Let's DO, a novel platform for interoperability and data exchange between different noncoherent products, systems and devices (both automotive and nonautomotive). Let's DO platform abstracts automotive communication protocol messages in a unified message standard transported over IP-based Ethernet networks enabling interoperability, quick prototyping, code reuse, and allowing more agile and efficient automotive software development cycles.