New features offer fleets the opportunity to select the solution that fits their data needs
Road Ready and Clarience Technologies announced two industry-first solutions for digitally integrating the truck and the trailer for fleets. Road Ready’s two new solutions, cloud-based application program interface (API) technology and a virtual tether, respectively, provide visibility and data feeds that are unlike anything in the commercial transportation industry today. With Road Ready, fleets have the flexibility to choose the truck/trailer connectivity option that best fits their needs.
The most basic integration of both truck and trailer assets, Road Ready’s cloud-based solution empowers fleets to see data from both asset types in a synthesised single view. Enabled by Clarience Technologies’ acquisition of Fleetilla late in the first quarter of 2022, Road Ready is utilising the Fleetilla Connect open architecture IoT platform, which uses APIs to integrate a broad set of data feeds through providers like electronic logging devices (ELD) and in-cab cameras, and brings them into one interface.
Coupled with Road Ready’s FleetViz dashboard, which showcases data from the LogIQ smart partner network, this “single pane of glass” approach eliminates the need to portal hop — allowing fleets to save time, understand and potentially act upon asset insights.
Road Ready utilises a virtual tether approach; the solution allows the driver to integrate the truck and the trailer by plugging into the J-560 connection — just as they’re used to doing.
In addition to ease of operation for drivers, the virtual tether also offers real-time data benefits. Despite telematics’s booming success and popularity, spurred by the digital transformation of transportation, data collected and connected through telematics in the cloud has challenges when it comes to real-time safety-critical information. In the case of an emergency event, instantaneous information is crucial for driver safety and the best-case outcome for assets. Edge computing allows the virtual tether to offer real-time data that is relayed to the driver.
