Digital identification and digital twins are two of the most useful blockchain applications in development. When you think about your everyday life, how transformed would hassles like going to the vehicle registration agency and getting through airport security be if we had our licenses and identification with us digitally? Now if you think about everyday objects we use, how much easier would it be if your vehicle's records were stored and secured digitally? You wouldn't have to scramble to find its maintenance history or a physical proof of ownership. MOBI created the Vehicle Identity (VID) Working Groups in order to create a digital twin of a vehicle, opening up enormous opportunities and secure record-keeping throughout the lifecycle of a vehicle.
For the MOBI community, the most important Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are the vehicle identity (VID) and the vehicle-part identity (VPID). Together, with other DIDs, they are the crucial building blocks for smart mobility IoT ecosystems of the future. Decentralized VID and VPID are tools that enable interoperable, dynamic, multi-stakeholder transportation ecosystems that yield increased transparency, coordination, and automation between stakeholders. MOBI’s DIDs follow the specifications of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
MOBI VID is the unique “digital twin” of a vehicle, providing the necessary bridge to the physical asset that allows vehicle owners, users, and the mobility IoT ecosystem to trust, verify, manage access control, confirm ownership, track events, and interact with the vehicle. The physical vehicle and its MOBI VID are inextricably linked by the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). As a result, it becomes the key that ties together the master records for the vehicle’s history and usage data in a decentralized New Economy of Movement.
Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) open up business networks and other multi-party ecosystems for broader and more efficient collaboration. Stakeholders with relevant read and/or write permissions will be able to interact with the data stored on the tamper-evident decentralized ledger.
Learn more about the VID Working Groups and check out our upcoming lectures below! We'll also be announcing our implementation program next week, so stay tuned.
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MOBI Team
MOBI's VID Working Groups define a digital document that is a verifiable link to a specific vehicle, a minimum representation of that vehicle’s digital twin. VID can be used to establish existence, manage access control, confirm ownership history, and track key events in the life of a vehicle.
VID I launched in 2018 and was co-chaired by Groupe Renault and Ford, with support from Accenture, AIOI USA, BMW, Car Vertical, Cerebri AI, Cognizant, ConsenSys, CPChain, DMX, DLT Labs, GM, Honda, Hyperledger, IBM, IOTA Foundation, KAR, Luxoft, MintBit, Netsol Technologies, Oaken Innovations, On The Road Companies, Quantstamp, Trusted IoT Alliance, and Xapix. Following the success of the VID I WG, VID II launched in 2019 and is co-chaired by BMW and Ford, with support from Accenture, AWS, AutoData Group, Bosch, Car IQ, CEVT, DENSO, DMX, Hitachi America, Ltd., Honda, IBM, KAR Global, Luxoft, Nara Institute, Quantstamp, Ownum, and USAA.
The purpose of the VID standards is to enable each vehicle to have its own unique digital identity that will capture definitional features like the vehicle’s make, model, production year, fuel efficiency, and classification. To do so, the vehicle is immutably anchored to the MOBI VID by the physical Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). The July 2019 MOBI VID I Standard establishes a machine-readable vehicle birth certificate (VBC), capturing the vehicle’s characteristics when it leaves the factory - this is the first "link" in a vehicle's lifecycle. The VID II Standards were released in January 2021 to continue defining “vehicle identity” and lifetime events such as registration and maintenance traceability.
Stay tuned for an announcement about our implementation program next week!
Listen to the co-chairs of the VID Working Group and authors of MOBI VID I and II Standards share value propositions, insights on mobility derived from the new vehicle identity, and MOBI's work to create standards for the deployment of VID on blockchain.
Upcoming Lectures
JULY
TOMORROW! Hear an expert panel on opportunities to monetize data and services within consortium networks. Expert panelists will share differing perspectives on the role of data, shared services, governance, and tokens. Expect to leave the event with a clearer picture of the possible ledger-based business models for mobility, permissioned data, the “trusted trip,” and how the network’s core services of governance, authority, identity, and assurance (GAIA) can accelerate monetization.
Join us on 18 August for a conversation with Hector Monsegur, one of the most controversial hackers of this generation. Alongside his friend, MOBI Working Groups Lead Rajat Rajbhandari, Hector will discuss the topic of cybersecurity. Hector will share his experience as a black hat, his transition to white hat, and his current role in assisting large enterprises against cyber-attacks. He will also share his thoughts on recent ransomware hacks, potential attack vectors in supply chain, IoT, automated vehicles, and how enterprises can become better prepared.
Supply Chain Working Group members from Ford, AWS, and FIM Research Center talk in-depth about the SC WG's innovations and value propositions within the mobility supply chain, including the deployment of multi-party supply chain parts traceability applications. This panel introduces listeners to the use case review of end-to-end parts traceability, as well as a high-level overview of the reference implementation architecture and how it leverages blockchain, DLT, VID, and other primitives.
Andreas explores the concepts of decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials, and how these industry standards together with their implementations can be utilized to build secure and privacy-preserving federated, or even decentralized, trust networks without centralized 3rd party trust providers. He also discusses the role that MOBI is playing in rebuilding the web of trust through developing standards-based identity and assurance core services and application interoperability infrastructure for the mobiNET project.
MOBI members enjoy a wide range of benefits and opportunities specifically designed to promote smart mobility through blockchain and distributed ledgers. Among the benefits of membership are participation in our working groups, access to the MOBI Vehicle Identity (VID) and other MOBI Standards, networking, speaking, and sponsorship opportunities at our MoCo (MOBI Colloquiums) and at our Community Innovation Lecture Series. See who makes up our consortium in the member directory.
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