eSafety Working Group on Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) : State of play

Creation date: 16 June 2008

The SOA Working Group plays a key role in identifying the benefits SOA has on eSafety and ITS, as well as devising a roadmap for SOA implementation. Recently, the SOA Working Group has analysed a wide range of use cases to identify a common value chain for actors involved in esafety as joint business . Use cases are mature models to capture users’ (system or person) interaction requirements and begin to establish some of the functional requirements before the building-up of a new system starts.

These use cases are exploited to identify useful interfaces for the orchestration of services by different classes of providers such as information providers, OEMs, PSAPs, service station, location based services providers  and others. A domain model has been drafted and will be further developed. In parallel, the reporting document has been drafted and will be delivered to the Working Group members after the ITS Conference in Geneva . An important part of the work- which is still ongoing- is to identify the potential benefits that could stem from the application of SOA principles to eSafety applications and services. Closely related to this are the recommendations on how to practically introduce SOA services and avoid pitfalls. Here, the liaison activities with Sensoria project and Atos have been initiated to gain further insight from other perspectives.

A public workshop scheduled for September will present the current findings and involve stakeholders for them to share their feed-back, comments and suggestions for improvement.