Secure and targeted access to the data and services of defined fleet vehicles for selected OEM business customers
Fleet Essentials provides vehicle manufacturers (OEMs) the key elements of data processing and managing fleet structures and permissions in order to make connected vehicle data and services available to their business customers. The product offers flexible connected vehicle integration options and provides APIs that enable OEM business customers to build solutions with the features that their end users need. All the data collected provides opportunities for data analysis and a better understanding of how/where cars are used on an aggregated level. This greater visibility of vehicle health and usage leads to increased vehicle utilization and safety as well as better operational effectiveness for the business customers of the OEM.
OEMs are changing their business models and focusing on a sustainable future for both their businesses and the environment. There is an opportunity to simultaneously increase revenue and reduce the environmental impact by increasing the number of vehicles that are driven in different fleets with a higher utilization rate. At the same time, an increasing number of vehicles are being driven by people who are not the registered owner, and ownership is shifting from private persons to commercial entities. New mobility services are continually appearing on the market and there is a constant influx of new ideas and functionalities offered to consumers.
With these ever-evolving circumstances, OEMs face several challenges in offering safe and useful services:
To support the transition from ownership to usership, access to vehicle data must be managed in a secure way so that only those who are meant to access information can see it.
OEMs must be able to manage connected groups of vehicles and to resolve roles and rights for the OEM business customers.
Vehicles need to be divided into logical vehicle groups based on the business logic used by the OEM’s customer (e.g., geography, models, powertrain, etc.)
The work processes must be efficient throughout the entire flow from the OEM to the end user, both to achieve profitability and to create a good customer experience.
The solution should not be locked-in for the OEM. Rather, it should stimulate high usage by different actors, including rental companies, leasing companies and the OEM itself.
All of this calls for a new way of doing business, and of managing vehicles, data and services created by the OEM in a flexible and efficient way.
On average more than 60% of OEM vehicles are sold into the B2B channel. Many of these vehicles become part of a fleet, whether it is an OEM test car fleet, leasing company, rental car company, mobility provider, or other fleet-based service models. Regardless of the owner and fleet type, there are a few common areas of concern:
Increasing usage and realizing ROI
Reducing environmental impact and CO2 emissions
Efficiently managing the health and location of assets
Building attractive pricing models and features for end users
To address these areas of concern and to obtain visibility of individual vehicles in the fleet; connectivity, data, and fleet-centric services are key. Fleet Essentials provides services that enable a fleet of vehicles to be organized in a structured way. Roles and rights to access vehicle data are managed while data and services are delivered securely to any business customers.
Our API makes it possible for the OEM to give access to the vehicle data to mobility providers or fleet management providers. There is no locked-in solution for one specific fleet management portal. This allows OEMs to offer a rich set of features that improve operational excellence, strengthen brand loyalty, and provide positive user experiences.
As an OEM, ensuring successful management of the B2B business and assets is key. The Fleet Essentials portal and Fleet Essentials APIs enable you to establish the top level of your customers’ fleet structure and infleet/defleet vehicles.
The permission management features allow you to assign access to the services and features according to your defined business agreement with the fleet owner.
The Fleet Essentials portal is a Graphical User Interface that visualizes the fleets and fleet structures and enables critical fleet administration. The OEM’s Sales team uses this portal to establish the necessary relationships in the system between the fleet owner and the connected vehicles of that fleet. The portal also allows the OEM to manage access to the fleet structure and set up permissions for which services and data the OEM business customer can view and use within their fleet(s).
We do not believe in locking in how the fleet manager portal should be visualized. Therefore, a fleet API is included that is easy to consume for the OEM’s business customer. We also have a network of partners for fleet manager portals that suit different markets and needs.
Do you already have a connected vehicle backend or are you starting from scratch? No matter your starting point, we provide different product packages that support getting data and services from the cars into our cloud. This can be done via an existing OEM backend, directly from the vehicle via a telematics control unit, or even via an Android Automotive OS in-vehicle application. This flexibility enables even OEMs with multiple legacy systems to consolidate, manage and view these vehicles inside our fleet structure. Since the complexity of the vehicle integration is encapsulated in WirelessCar’s solution, your developers can focus on adding value for the company and its users.
The Fleet Essentials APIs support business customers to integrate the fleet and connected car data and services into the company’s processes and systems. As a result, fleet owners and operators can benefit from a rich set of tools and capabilities to manage and access data from the vehicles as well as work with their fleet structures.
A core element of Fleet Essentials is the secure and efficient processing of different data types:
All data is collected, encrypted, and stored according to the highest security standards with respect to the region where the vehicle is operational (EU, US, China).
The WirelessCar Console provides all the necessary information and know-how to get started using the API’s features. Here, you will find documentation about how to get started and use the end points to support your business processes. Your integration efforts are supported by examples, FAQs and clear guidelines for request/ response format and data.
Fleet Essentials builds on our fleet-ready, cloud-based backend products and services. As an OEM you benefit from using our proven building blocks as a part of your solution and decreasing time to market for your connectivity offerings towards your business customers.
Simultaneously, you gain the ability to expand your offerings over time based on a secure and highly scalable solution. You have control of the connected service offerings that you want to deliver and the data you want your business customers to be able to utilize within their fleet systems. By reducing their need for external dongles and the logistics and expense of managing extra hardware, their total cost of ownership is reduced.
Status Package
Remote commands
Data analytics
Average consumption (diesel, petrol and electricity) qnd average miles
Global reach: Currently, our services support most markets in the world including North America, the European Union, and China.
Designed for scale: As the number of vehicles increases, so does the amount of data. Our products are designed to support large amounts of data and are built to secure scalability.
Respect for privacy: How, when, and where vehicles are driven can be sensitive data. All data is tagged according to data privacy regulations and securely encrypted and stored.
Designed for the mobility industry: Our solution focuses on digital services for connected vehicles. Our products are fully designed for any mobility use cases.
At WirelessCar cybersecurity and data protection is in our DNA, meaning we apply the secure by design principles to address the unique characteristics of the connected vehicle and its services. We work proactively against any potential threat by leveraging our twenty years of experience in the domain, proven by being ISO27001 and VDA-ISA certified as well as following NIST and UN R155 regulations for cybersecurity and privacy controls.
We build our applications and services based on DevSecOps, making security an equal partner along-side development and operations; and we leverage our cloud partners such as AWS to help our architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for our applications.
