Aumovio opens up VDO Fleet for partners

Aumovio has further developed its digital fleet management system for commercial vehicles – VDO Fleet – into an open platform for digital fleet services.

Vehicle fleet operators and fleet management providers as well as software and technology companies can access tachograph data via various interfaces and integrate this data directly into their systems or use the data for their own applications, such as payroll processing, time recording, or the optimisation and automation of dispatching and route planning.

“Our digital tachograph provides extremely reliable and legally compliant data,” said Volkmar Knaup, head of Services Europe at Aumovio’s Commercial and Special Vehicles segment. “By making this data accessible via open interfaces, we are creating a flexible basis for extended data-based functions in transport logistics.”

“In this way, we are evolving from being a hardware and service provider into a partner that enables third-party providers and fleets to access new digital business models in transport logistics,” he added.

The digital tachograph has been more than just a control instrument for quite some time. It delivers legally compliant, tamper-proof data on driving and rest periods, vehicle movements and driver activities. It is used not only for control purposes, but also increasingly for numerous additional applications such as dispatching, billing and personnel planning.

With VDO Fleet, Aumovio says it has merged these data systematically on a cloud platform in an analysable format. By opening data up to partners such as software providers, platform operators and fleet management service providers, this data can now also be used outside of the company’s own software environment. Partners can access data records via standardised interfaces and use them as a basis for their own services.

“The tachograph is one of the most reliable data sources onboard vehicles. Our aim is not only to harness this potential for our own services, but also to open it up specifically for partners,” added Knaup. “We thereby create an ecosystem from which fleets, partners and their customers can all benefit equally. Initial collaborative efforts with partners have already been successfully launched.”