Germany - Transport companies using telematics systems from the two leading European trailer manufacturers, Schmitz Cargobull AG of Horstmar, Germany and Krone Commercial Vehicles SE of Werlte, Germany can now access the data provided for all their vehicles via their individual access points regardless of the telematics hardware installed or the telematics portal used. This new service has been facilitated through cooperation between Cargobull Telematics and Krone Telematics: both manufacturers have opened their standardized interfaces for the respective other system. The two companies jointly produce more than 80,000 trailers a year, accounting for some 30 to 40% of total trailers sold in Europe.

Ralf Faust, managing director of Krone Service, and Marnix Lannoije, managing director of Schmitz Cargobull Telematics, in a joint statement, said: “For transport companies, the topics of standardization, data consolidation and thus open interfaces are becoming the new focus of attention. The continuous analysis of trailer data to support business processes is becoming increasingly important. Standardization becomes an elementary building block for holistic fleet management and reduces internal process costs significantly. Open data processing becomes highly important not only for monitoring, securing and tracking the load, but for all automation processes around the trailer. Ultimately, our customers only look for one thing: they want to retrieve all vehicle data as quickly, easily, and transparently as possible to manage their fleets even more efficiently. This we now assure with the compatibility of Cargobull Telematics and Krone Telematics.