Celebrating Innovation: COVESA Adopter & Contributor Award Winners
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Congratulations to the recipients of the COVESA Adopter & Contributor Awards: Cox Automotive and Virtual Vehicle Research. We’re proud to recognize their outstanding contributions to the COVESA community!
Cox Automotive
[Left to right: Jordan Smith, Senior Product Manager, Cox Automotive, Steve Crumb, COVESA Executive Director, Lee Price, Enterprise Data Strategy Director, Cox Automotive]
Cox Automotive, the world’s largest and most complete automotive services provider, joined COVESA this year as a core member and impressed the judges with its innovative approach. As COVESA Executive Director Steve Crumb noted, “The Cox Automotive showcase was more of a story than a demonstration.”
Under the Cox Automotive umbrella are several data-driven businesses, including AutoTrader, Kelley Blue Book, and Manheim Auctions. Cox Automotive leverages COVESA’s Vehicle Signal Specification (VSS) to normalize cross-brand vehicle data, enabling essential insights for these businesses. The award recognizes Cox Automotive’s use of VSS as a common data pipeline for its resale commercial offerings.
Virtual Vehicle Research
[Left to right: Michael Spitzer, Lead Researcher, Virtual Vehicle Research, Steve Crumb, COVESA Executive Director, Laura Gregorc, Lead Researcher, Virtual Vehicle Research]
Virtual Vehicle Research, Europe’s largest research center for virtual vehicle development, equally impressed the review team with its commitment to open standards. Their demonstration showcased the adoption of two COVESA technologies:
- COVESA’s open-source implementation of the IEEE 1722 protocol for streaming audio/video, tunneling CAN/LIN messages, and enabling remote access to peripherals.
- VSS for driver identification and personalized mood lighting based on preferences.
These companies received the awards at the recent All Member Meeting (AMM) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. These awards are given at every AMM since Spring 2024, and recognize organizations that have demonstrated exceptional innovation, adoption, and contribution to COVESA technologies and community with the COVESA Adopter & Contributor Awards.
Join us in celebrating our award winners! We’ll see you at the next AMM, and we look forward to seeing your innovations and contributions.
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The Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance (COVESA) is an open and member-driven global technology alliance accelerating the full potential of connected vehicles and the mobility ecosystem. As the only alliance focused solely on developing open standard approaches and technologies for connected vehicles, COVESA serves as a collaborative platform that brings together automotive software stakeholders with world-class developers to address opportunities and challenges in the automotive industry and navigate the digital transformation shaped by customer expectations. To learn more about COVESA or to join our community, visit www.covesa.global.
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