User Documentation

Quick Start

What Vehicle Data Solutions Is Bosch Vehicle Data Solutions (VDS) collects telemetry from the vehicles of your development fleet and makes it available in the cloud: as live signals in Grafana, as downloadable measurement files, and through …

Hardware

owa5X Data Logger The current VDS data logger is the Owasys owa5X. It records CAN, XCP/CCP, UDS and OBD traffic, carries a GPS receiver and a cellular modem, and is powered from the vehicle at 9 to 36 V DC. Status LEDs The two …

General Configuration

The General Configuration page holds the settings that apply to the whole project: the Buses your vehicles have, and the Data Ingest view of how much data the project sends to the cloud. Buses A bus is a named vehicle network, for example …

Vehicles

The Vehicles page is the register of the cars in your project. A data logger is assigned to a vehicle, trips are listed under the vehicle’s name, and the vehicle’s attributes, such as its VIN and time zone, are written into the exported …

Upload Data Dictionary

A data dictionary describes the signals on a bus or in an ECU. Upload the dictionaries for your vehicles here; the configuration editor then lets you pick signals from them. Upload a File Click Upload and choose a file, or drop files onto …

Configure Measurement

Configurations A measurement configuration tells a data logger what to record: which signals from which buses and ECUs, at which rates, and whether to write MF4 files on the device. You build configurations on the Configure Measurement page …

Assignments

The Assignments page lists the data loggers of your project. Here you assign each device to its vehicle, map the vehicle’s buses to the device’s physical interfaces, and choose the configuration the device records with. For each device the …

Trip Data

A trip is one recording session of a device: it starts when the logger begins collecting with its configuration and ends when the logger stops or goes to sleep. The Trip Data page lists the trips of your project and is the starting point …

Events

Events What Events Are An event is a situation in recorded vehicle data that you describe with signal conditions, for example “the engine is running while the vehicle stands still for more than 20 seconds” or “deceleration stronger than 2.5 …

Device Web Manager

Device Web Manager (vdswebmgr) The owa5X data logger includes a built-in web management interface called vdswebmgr. It provides a local browser-based UI for monitoring and configuring certain device specific configuration options over an …

Device Troubleshooting

This page starts from what you see and works back to the cause. Two tools do most of the work: The status LEDs on the logger (table on the Hardware page). The trip log of the trip on the Trip Data page, which lists what the logger reported; …

Trip Log Messages

The trip log of a trip (the health icon on the Trip Data page) lists the messages the logger reported while recording. This page explains them. Messages are quoted exactly as the logger writes them, so you can search for them. Reading a …

Roles and Permissions

Every user of a project has one of four roles. The role decides which buttons are enabled in the web application and which API calls succeed; pages a role may not view show an “Access Denied” message. Role Intended for Admin Project …

Command-line Tools

vds is the command-line client for the VDS REST API. It does what the web application does, from a terminal or a script: list vehicles, devices and trips, manage measurement configurations and users, read a device’s status log, and author, …