Three Keys To Making Telematics Work

摘要

Few meetings give the feeling of promise and excitement that I experienced at the recent Association of Equipment Management Professionals (AEMP) conference in Scottsdale, where I received an update on the collaborative effort underway to define key telematics data and make it available to end-users in a well-understood, standardized format. The work is essential for the future of our business. AEMP has taken the lead, and it is time for us to pull together and make sure that the initiative succeeds. In March 1999,I wrote a letter to Mac Klingler, then manager of advanced research and development at John Deere. We were trying to wrap our minds around the huge potential offered by our emerging ability to instrument machines and wirelessly transmit the resulting data. We divided the system into four components with the following principal functions:rnCollect and Buffer: to collect the outputs from the sensors, including the GPS antennae, store them, and prepare them for later transmission.