Partners Platform Science and Daimler Trucks North America debut the first open OEM (original equipment manufacturer) platform for fleet management.
The platform—Virtual Vehicle—allows fleets to access real time vehicle data directly from its vehicles, as well as gain telematics, software solutions, and third-party applications
The platform provides customers greater value and a greater choice of software-enabled services.
Sanjiv Khurana, Daimler Truck North America head of connected services said: “With Virtual Vehicle, we offer our customers an open digital solutions and services platform that allows them to choose fleet applications that best meet their needs. The system is seamlessly enabled in our trucks, without the need for installing any additional telematics hardware, or the associated costs and loss of uptime. Through our collaboration with Platform Science, we are building on the strong connectivity already integrated into our trucks, and offering unprecedented flexibility, efficiency and scalability.”
The Virtual Vehicle platform enhances driver experience, offering software-enabled and ROI-enhancing applications. Daimler is the first OEM to use Cloud, Edge and in-dash tech to provide native in-vehicle mobile technology that customers can distribute, manage and enable driver applications and connected vehicle services.
It provides fleets flexibility to choose third-party apps, mix or match telematics service provider applications or to use their own for fleet customization by app and by driver level, creating a best-in-class in-cab technology experience to their own company objectives.
The Virtual Vehicle platform offers many benefits to fleets, including:
- Productivity: With factory-installed telematics hardware, fleets can maximize uptime by avoiding installation delays and costs for complementary hardware;
- Flexibility: Virtual Vehicle allows fleets to create a software experience catered to individual business needs through a growing pipeline of developer-created innovations;
- Accessibility: Virtual Vehicle leverages edge, cloud and in-dash data to optimize networks, keeping data available 24/7/365, even when fleets are offline;
- Cost-effectiveness: Users of participating applications on Virtual Vehicle benefit from usage-based billing