Native OEM Platform for Telematics Gives Customers More Choice, Enhanced Productivity and Enhanced Flexibility
LISLE, Ill. and SAN DIEGO, March 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ –Navistar and Platform Science, a leading connected vehicle platform, today announced the integration of Navistar’s Platform Science with Virtual Vehicle™, the first open OEM platform that enables fleet telematics enables access. , software solutions, real-time vehicle data, and third-party applications directly from their vehicles. This collaboration gives international truck customers access to a customizable platform that provides an unlimited canvas to fleets, enhancing their capabilities to innovate and use, manage and deploy digital applications.
“Virtual Vehicles allows us to extend the power of our connected services platform OnCommand Connection to maximize the value of data for our customers,” said Chet Sisilsky, VP of Navistar’s on-highway heavy duty truck business. “Our collaboration with Platform Science provides our customers with convenient digital solutions – meeting and taking them where they want to be in the future.”
The virtual vehicle platform, which Navistar will launch in 2023, offers a number of benefits to the fleet, including:
- Productivity: With factory-installed telematics hardware, fleets can maximize uptime by avoiding installation delays and the cost of supplemental hardware.
- Flexibility: Virtual Vehicles allows fleets to build a software experience that meets individual business needs through a growing pipeline of developer-created innovations.
- Reach: Leverages edge, cloud and in-dash data to optimize virtual vehicle networks, keeping data available 24/7/365 even when fleets are offline.
- effective cost: Users of participating applications on a virtual vehicle benefit from usage-based billing
“As a leader in OEM native telematics, Platform Science is setting the standard for modern enterprise fleets with virtual vehicles,” said Jake Fields, Platform Science co-founder and CTO. “The virtual vehicle platform brings to customers a wide range of integrated Android Fleet Apps, giving fleets options and total access to the new apps to select the software solutions they require without the burden and expense of adding new hardware. Provides flexibility. We are very excited to work with Navistar to deliver these solutions to customers and to enable those customers to deliver a safer, more user-friendly experience for drivers and achieve more efficient results Huh.”
“Navistar’s integration of the virtual vehicle allows us to leverage a combined solution to drive the efficiencies we see in today’s maintenance,” said Tony Wahl, Werner’s Director of Equipment Procurement. “This level of connectivity between service providers simplifies the maintenance process and helps us operate more effectively.”
For more information visit www.virtualvehicle.io.
About Platform Science
Platform Science is transforming transportation technology by empowering enterprise fleets with an integrated, user-friendly technology platform. Platform Science makes it easy to develop, deploy and manage mobile devices and applications on commercial vehicles, giving fleets an edge in efficiency, flexibility, visibility and productivity. The customizable platform provides an unlimited canvas to fleets and developers seeking to create and build new solutions as customer needs, businesses and industries develop. In 2021, Platform Science was ranked #2 in the FreightTech 25 Awards by industry news leader, FreightWaves. For more information please visit www.platformscience.com
Navistar. About this
Navistar, Inc. (“Navistar”) is a purpose-driven company that reimagines what matters to build more cohesive relationships, build high-performing teams, and find solutions where others do not. International® brand commercial trucks and engines based in Lisle, Illinois, Navistar or its subsidiaries and affiliates, IC Bus® brand school and commercial buses, all-make OnCommand® Connection advanced connectivity services, and FleetRight®, Renewed® and Diamond Produces Advantage®. Brand aftermarket parts and includes MWM Motores Diesel e Geradores, a Brazilian manufacturer of engines and gensets. With a history of innovation dating back to 1831, Navistar has over 14,500 employees worldwide and is part of TRATON SE, a global champion of the truck and transportation services industry. Additional information is available at www.Navistar.com.
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