In this talk I will present the Fleet Management blueprint which is focused on capitalizing on the data that a fleet of Commercial vehicles generates (Starting point Trucks). Fleet managers want to be able to capture and make use of where vehicles are, how fast they’re going, and other such details. This problem domain is already addressed by commercial vendors offering Fleet Management System (FMS) software-as-a-service , mostly using vendor and vehicle specific telematics units (black boxes) which need to be installed to the vehicle to extract data and transmit to a cloud back end. Clients of such solutions often complain about hardware and software vendor lock-in, which results in high costs for adding vehicles of additional brands and/or migrating to a different FMS vendor.
In contrast to this, we built the Fleet Management blueprint with open source technology and standards (VSS) at the heart which the members of the SDV Working Group and other communities have created. This talk will not only give an overview but also propose the changes that we propose due to the new and exciting "CV BoF guidelines" and how we plan to do such work alongside implementing OSS from geotab called "curve logging" that will not only reduce data OTA but further enhance the data insights available in the cloud. We hope this blueprint (BPO) will become the collaboration technology "playground" for all future PoC's