Daimler Truck North America to combine Lytx tech on choose Freightliner and Western Star fashions

Expertise information and briefs for the week of Oct. 23, 2022: 

Lytx, Daimler Truck North America collab on OEM integration

Tech firm Lytx Inc. has introduced a first-ever OEM integration with Daimler Truck North America (DTNA).

Lytx will collaborate with DTNA to launch a brand new car telematics gateway and digicam answer that may be ordered instantly from the manufacturing facility on choose Freightliner and Western Star fashions.

The answer will leverage Lytx DriveCam elements, which will likely be built-in within the car through the manufacturing of these fashions.

“Combining our enterprise technique of providing customer-first options with the configuration choices throughout the Lytx Imaginative and prescient Platform, we’re grateful for the chance to work with the staff at Daimler Truck North America to ship our customizable security options in an progressive new manner,” mentioned Lytx Chairman and CEO Brandon Nixon.

The answer, powered by the Lytx Imaginative and prescient Platform, offers Lytx assist with its experience in video, massive information, and synthetic intelligence options to OEM companions and shoppers in constructing customized options.

Clients can start inserting orders later this fall, with the primary Lytx-equipped vehicles to be inbuilt early 2023 for the Freightliner Cascadia and Western Star X-Sequence line of 47X, 49X and 57X fashions.

Predictive upkeep platform provides new capabilities

Industrial intelligence software-as-a-service supplier Uptake has developed a number of new capabilities in its predictive upkeep platform Uptake Fleet.

Main the additions is an expanded work-order analytics functionality that allows customers to maneuver past time and odometer-based measurements.

The instrument makes use of as much as 10 years of present inside work order information to offer component-level survival curves that point out the place a truck’s belongings are within the gear lifecycle, in addition to mixture and particular person unit element analytics. It additionally filters by information fields so customers can assess each enterprise-level and vehicle-specific efficiency.

The brand new configuration permits customers to set survival curve thresholds for particular car elements. When these thresholds are crossed, Uptake Fleet will create an alert that influences the truck’s danger rating and flags the potential for element failure, which allows customers to plan extra precisely for replacements and put together inventory accordingly.

Help for a number of widespread sensor analytics endpoints through the addition of latest Utility Programming Interface (API) and Electrical System Score (ESR) connectors can be included.

By its enhanced assist, Uptake Fleet now ingests and analyzes a wider vary of fault information that customers can leverage to dramatically broaden their stage and high quality of insights to extend car uptime, reduce upkeep disruptions and enhance fleet productiveness.

The brand new sensor analytics capabilities assist outputs from the Geotab ESR module, giving customers of the Geotab monitoring platform a brand new solution to generate electrical programs insights that may forestall roadside failures. Utilizing Geotab’s ESR “rating,” Uptake Fleet can set up efficiency thresholds for insights on the well being of alternators, batteries and different crucial system elements.

Geotab integrates with Phillips Join, Irdeto

IoT gadgets supplier Geotab has two new integrations.

The corporate has built-in with Phillips Join to supply the latter’s StealthNet and SolarNet asset monitoring and administration options by way of the Geotab Market Order Now program. Cybersecurity firm Irdeto has additionally built-in with Geotab to make use of its open utility programming interfaces to offer finish clients with a turnkey answer for keyless car operation.

Phillips Join’s expertise out there by way of the Geotab Market Order Now program helps customers procure options rapidly and conveniently, permitting them to make knowledgeable choices that may assist mitigate danger, enhance productiveness and create price effectivity.

The combination permits customers to trace belongings diligently to handle theft or loss, automate yard checks and assist determine upkeep points earlier than pricey repairs are wanted.

Geotab launched the Order Now program in 2021, permitting customers entry to market options instantly inside its fleet administration platform MyGeotab.

Utilizing the Geotab GO9, Keystone by Irdeto will interface instantly with MyGeotab, enabling whole car administration, from key distribution to car analytics and offering elevated safety, profitability and adaptability for purchasers.

Keystone by Irdeto is a safe, permission-based car digital key answer that makes use of Bluetooth Low Power expertise to allow proximity-based car entry utilizing a smartphone. It permits the fleet supervisor to regulate who, when and the way drivers and assist features can entry and drive automobiles in its fleet. Leveraging proximity wi-fi applied sciences, Keystone by Irdeto can detect a certified driver approaching and begin preconditioning the car even earlier than the driving force reaches it, growing driver and fleet effectivity.

One other advantage of the combination would be the risk to retrofit and convert present bladed key fleet automobiles to keyless operations. The answer works on any car with a bladed key.

Insurance coverage app makes onboarding unbiased contractors simpler

Danger administration and insurance coverage brokerage agency TrueNorth Firms LC has made enrolling unbiased contractors in insurance coverage protection simpler for motor carriers.

Impartial contractors can now enroll in and handle protection for TrueNorth’s Impartial Benefit program through the TNTruck app, which makes use of digital signatures to make the enrollment course of paperless. They’ll additionally print certificates instantly from the app and permits them to combine and synchronize information in actual time between the agency, contractors, the insurance coverage firm and TrueNorth.

“This newest replace to TNTruck is a game-changer for motor carriers as their efforts round onboarding and driver retention proceed to evolve,” mentioned TrueNorth President Trent Tillman.

The TNTruck app launched in 2019 as a manner for unbiased contractors not driving for a motor provider to get quick and simple quotes for trucking insurance coverage, handle drivers and models and entry certificates and account data. Now, unbiased contractors driving for a motor provider get entry to the advantages of a totally built-in platform.

EROAD companions with transportation authorized firm on dashcam provide

Authorized firm TVC Professional-Driver has partnered with world transportation expertise providers firm EROAD to assist fleets maximize security, efficiency and compliance through dashboard cameras and fleet telematics.

By this partnership TVC, which provides authorized safety providers and industrial advantages to trucking professionals, now provides clients entry to the dual-facing EROAD Readability Dashcam and its GPS monitoring and fleet administration platform.

“Video proof rapidly removes many unknowns within the occasion of a collision,” mentioned Jim Angel, vp video telematics at EROAD. “With the addition of video telematics, fleet managers are additional empowered to guard their drivers in addition to their belongings resulting in safer roads and price financial savings. We’re excited to associate with TVC Professional-Driver to assist fleets mitigate danger with fleet video.”

These are among the advantages TVC’s clients acquire from this partnership: defend drivers and their enterprise from wrongful lawsuits; save on insurance coverage and restore prices; use video footage as a high-impact teaching instrument to enhance driver efficiency; and scale back accidents and the time required to research them.