Profiling and Service Delivery in Internet-enabled Cars

This paper presents our experience applying web services and active database technology in an automotive scenario. Particularly, we concentrate on developing an infrastructure for customizing the user’s experience in a vehicle. The motivation of this work is to allow the users to carry with them a personalized environment and apply their preferences not only to instrument adjustments and to maintenance and diagnostic information handling services but also to location-based services, infotainment and a briefing service that links to the user’s office environment. We describe the infrastructure, the realization of the internal as well as the application services and discuss work in progress related to privacy and billing issues.