Companies will be able to manage connected cars at the fleet and individual vehicle level, with the introduction of the new SAP Vehicle Insights application.
The application provides a range of services, including data analytics about fleets, vehicle diagnostics and mobility-as-a-service scenarios. Companies can use information about entire fleets and car-specific key data like gear recognition, fuel stops, scores for economical driving or heat mapping, to conduct predictive maintenance, thereby reducing costs, and improve overall fleet management.
The Vehicle Insights solution can combine the data generated by connected vehicles both with a company’s existing business data and other external data.
“Vehicles and, to an increasing extent, machines need to be integrated in digital business processes. Whether it is a truck on the road, a forklift at the warehouse or an excavator at a construction site, everything needs to be operated in the most efficient way possible. We help customers not only to rapidly develop and implement these scenarios for their businesses, but also to validate them in the market and scale them accordingly over a short period of time,” said Stephan Brand, senior vice president, products and innovation Internet of Things (IoT) and moving assets, SAP.
The applications for the solution could include conventional areas of logistics optimisation as well as management of commercial fleets, which are able to use vehicle data like geo-positions, load weight, temperature or the estimated time of arrival. Additional services for geo-fencing or speed-limit analysis could also support new business processes and models in the fields of digital farming and telematics for insurance.
SAP Vehicle Insights is based on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform, and collects, stores, maps and analyses real-time sensor data from vehicles and equipment. Standardised web-enabled services with open integration allows the solution to be connected with existing systems with minimal disruption, enabling reduced costs through improved operations, planning and control.
