Automotive Cloud Service Systems Based on Service-Oriented Architecture and Its Evaluation

This article reports our concept and experiences on ACSS (Automotive Cloud Service System) based on SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) for the next-generation automotive software platform. Along with rapid deployment of cloud computing, we expect, automotive software is evolving to ACSS where vehicles are collaborating with outside cloud computing and a variety of social networks. We propose an ACSS based on SOA named DARWIN, and demonstrate the validity of DARWIN with case studies running on a prototype electric vehicle. This article contributes to reveal key aspects of new software architecture for the next generation automotive software of integrating software in a vehicle and cloud services out of vehicles seamlessly.