Web Services Directory

The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi), established in 1999, is an independent, non-profit corporation working to define and promote open specifications for the delivery of managed broadband services to networks in homes, cars and other environments. OSGi also works to proliferate these open specifications through the sponsorship of technology, market, and user education programs.

The MAGIC Service Initiative has the goal of defining and promoting the first open industry specification for delivering navigation, telematics, and related geographic information services across multiple networks, platforms and devices. Client server interaction is formatted in XML and encoded in SOAP. A Web Services approach for vehicles.

Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration (AMI-C) is a worldwide organization of motor vehicle manufacturers working to reshape the way automotive and consumer electronics systems interact through the development, promotion and standardization of a common, open interface.

The IDB Forum actively promotes the global integration of IDB networking into vehicles, consumer electronics, and automotive electronics. Activities include technology and market development, demonstration, and interface to the Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration (AMI-C). The scope includes IDB-C, a 250Kbps network based on CAN, and IDB-1394, an automotive grade version of IEEE-1394, under development by the Joint Automotive Working Group (AuWG), a partnership between the IDB Forum and the 1394 Trade Association.

Media Oriented Systems Transport is a multimedia fiber-optic network optimized for automotive applications. It is a network developed by the automotive industry for the automotive industry. Its design allows it to provide a low-overhead and low-cost interface for the simplest of devices, such as microphones and speakers. At the same time, more intelligent devices can automatically determine the features and functions provided by all other devices on the network and establish sophisticated control mechanisms to take away distractions from the driver of the car as different subsystems try to communicate information to them.