On the road with RTLola : Testing real driving emissions on your phone

Abstract

This paper is about shipping runtime verification to the masses. It presents the crucial technology enabling everyday car owners to monitor the behaviour of their cars in-the-wild. Concretely, we present an Android app that deploys rtlola runtime monitors for the purpose of diagnosing automotive exhaust emissions. For this, it harvests the availability of cheap Bluetooth adapters to the On-Board-Diagnostics (obd) ports, which are ubiquitous in cars nowadays. The app is a central piece in a set of tools and services we have developed for black-box analysis of automotive vehicles. We detail its use in the context of real driving emission (rde) tests and report on sample runs that helped identify violations of the regulatory framework currently valid in the European Union.