• Blueprint overview/Introduction
  • Use Case
  • Overall application Architecture
  • Overall deployment Architecture
• Platform Architecture
• Software Platform Architecture
• Main Progresses for Release 4
  • Tars is an edge compute microservice platform with low latency, high quality. Notes
• Hardware and Software Management
• Licensing

Blueprint overview/Introduction

Connected Vehicle Blueprint(CVB) is an Akraino approved blueprint and part of Akraino Edge Stack. The project is completely focused on Connected Vehicle Application run on Edge Computing.

Use Case

The use cases for the Connected Vehicle Blueprint are itemized below. For R4, we release the latest Microservice Platform Tars,  which supports the multiple connected vehicle application deployment/management/orchestration/monitor.

Test case: The roadside camera recognizes the vehicles and pedestrians on the road through the edge computing server, and then pushes the pedestrian warning to the host vehicle (blue vehicle) .

Overall application Architecture

The following picture depicts the application architecture of the Connect Vehicle Blueprint, which consists of the following key components:

• Commodity Hardware, Arm/X86 Physical Server.
• Virtualization Layer.
• Tars Microservice Platform layer.
• Connected Vehicle Applications layer.

Connected Vehicle Applications include roadside traffic situation monitoring, driving risk assessment, road event perception, high percision positioning, and so on.

Overall deployment Architecture

The following picture depicts the architecture of the Connect Vehicle Blueprint, which consists of the following key components:

• Commodity Hardware, Arm/X86 Physical Server.
• IaaS Software, like Openstack, IaaS and so on
• Tars Microservice Platform
• Connected Vehicle Applications 

The combination of Commodity Hardware and IaaS Software provides flexible deployments, like Bare Metal, Virtual Machine as well as Container. 

Tars is a microservice framework that can manage/monitor/deploy the connected vehicle applications in the edge and data center. Tars can be flexibly deployed in Bare Metal, Virtual Machine as well as Container.

Connected Vehicle Applications are some different applications that fulfill Accurate Location, Smarter Navigation, Safe Drive Improvement, Reduce traffic violations, and cooperative vehicle infrastructure system.

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Platform Architecture

Software Platform Architecture

The following is the general architecture of Tars, which is a major component in R4.

Refer to the enclosed PDF document for the detail Tars introduction. 

 PDF

Main Progresses for Release 4

Release 4 is the 4th release for Connected Vehicle Blueprint.

Build Of Materials (BOM) / Hardware requirements

Connected Vehicle Blueprint can be flexibly deployed in Bare Metal, Virtual Machine as well as the container.

For R4, we deploy it in Intel Pod1 Akraino  LAB for Release.  The detailed hardware is itemized below:

Tars is an edge compute microservice platform with low latency, high quality. 
Notes

Hardware and Software Management

Licensing