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KUKSA at FOSDEM 2023

KUKSA has been at the FOSDEM 2023 in Brussels. We show-cased how the Eclipse KUKSA project can help to leverage the advantages of a standardized description of vehicle signals The talk presented the architectural answer given by the Eclipse KUKSA project to leverage the COVESA Vehicle Signal Specification inside a vehicle. It showed how to use KUKSA components to gather and transform the data from lower embedded layers in the vehicle, and providing them in a secure way to apps and services.

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KUKSA CANOPi Prototyping platform for Software Defined Vehicle applications

If you have followed KUKSA over the last years you know the KUKSA OBD Prototyping Platform, a Raspberry CM3-based OBD dongle. Now we are proud to present the second iteration of the KUKSA hardware. As we are not limited to OBD anymore, a small rename was in order, so let’s welcome the KUKSA CANOPi Platform a Rapid Prototyping Hardware for Software Defined Vehicle Applications. So what is new? Two independent MCP251xFD based CAN-FD interfaces.

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Kuksa.val for SCR Anti-Tampering in trucks [Talk]

The DIAS project used Eclipse KUKSA to detect tampering in the exhaust cleaning system of a modern truck. Modern internal combustion engines have several advanced exhaust treatment systems to meet emission standards and legislation. In case of Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) for diesel engines, a catalyst (“AdBlue®”) is used as consumable. This incurs costs for the operator of diesel vehicles and provides an incentive to unlawfully circumvent those systems. The talk presents how the Eclipse KUKSA stack has been used to realize an anti-tampering system for commercial heavy-duty trucks exhaust systems.

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Eclipse Kuksa.val DBC Feeder Demo [Video]

Eclipse Kuksa.val DBC Feeder Demo [Video] This demo showcases the features of the kuksa.val (https://github.com/eclipse/kuksa.val) server. While the automotive world is full of standards, there are not a lot of useful standards for an I(o)T world. Useful here means Standardize on semantics, not technology only Usable across vendors, by anyone (car manufacturers, suppiers, aftermarket, third parties) Building on, or interacting with, common IT technologies One of the more useful approaches in this context is the Genivi Vehicle signal specification (VSS) (https://github.

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Using Eclipse Kuksa for Connected Vehicle Services [Video]

EclipseCon Europe 2019 Presentation: Using Eclipse Kuksa for Connected Vehicle Services … is presented by project comitters and contributers at the EclispeCon Europe 2019: EclipseCon Europe 2019 Interview: APPSTACLE & Eclilpse Kuksa

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Kuksa IDE [Video]

Kuksa IDE Video published ITEA Article on 0.1.0 Release ITEA published a news article on Kuksa 0.1.0 at https://itea3.org/news/itea-appstacle-project-announces-eclipse-kuksa-platform-for-car-to-car-to-cloud.html Kuksa 0.2.0 Release postponed to January 2020 Since minor organizational matters are still ongoing, we need to postpone Eclipse Kuksa 0.2.0 release to January 2020. Stay tuned!

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Kuksa IDE VSCE now available

Kuksa IDE Extension published to Visual Studio Code Marketplace Today, the Eclipse Kuksa team successfully published the latest Kuksa.IDE-VSCE at the Visual Studio Code marketplace. This Visual Studio Code Extension (VSCE) provides several commands to ease application development, docker image generation, and the transmission to an existing Eclipse Kuksa Appstore. More information can be found here. Download the Eclipse Kuksa IDE VSCE at the official VSCode marketplace now for free. The extension can be further used along with Eclipse Theia and Eclipse Che as part of an online IDE based on kubernetes and docker.

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Developer Questionnaire

Help us with your feedback to further develop Eclipse Kuksa .. … take a few moments as a developer to give us feedback from our ecosystem: In-Vehicle, Cloud, and IDE via https://forms.gle/XbhaugGQexb4pexi9 Thank you!

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Release 0.1.0

The APPSTACLE project members and Eclipse Kuksa developers released Eclipse Kuksa 0.1.0 officially on 30.09.2019. Within this release you can find the following: In-Vehicle In-Vehicle software runs on a target device such as the Raspberry Pi. agl-kuksa - Scripts to automate the AGL build system with the meta-kuksa layers. kuksa-hawkbit - Barebone API for connecting to Eclipse Hawkbit. The kuksa-appmanager (see below) should though be the prior choice to interact with Eclipse HawkBit.

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Automotive Ethernet Gateway by taskit

taskit GmbH has developed a Car2X Gateway, which enables standardized, secure access to the cloud for in-car software. It comes pre-installed with Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) and Eclipse Kuksa and supports multiple interfaces such as CAN bus and Automotive Ethernet. The Gateway was created as a part of the APPSTACLE project. This project is creating an open de facto standard and an open-source implementation of a complete technology stack for connected car scenarios as well as an associated ecosystem of libraries, tools, business models, services and support - hosted by the Eclipse Foundation as the Eclipse Kuksa project.

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