Roles
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Fleet - A fleet owns/rents vehicles. The partner has equipped vehicles in a fleet with devices that enable remote telemetry.
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Telematics Service Provider - Telematics Service Providers (TSPs) are partners to SKF that provide vehicle health monitoring and location tracking services to fleets.
- Installers - Installers commission or decommission sensors using the TraX mobile app. This role can be held by the fleet, the partner, or 3rd party company such as repair shops or OEMs.
Notions
- Vehicle - A bus, truck, or trailer.
- Vehicle definition - Information about a vehicle such as a vehicle name, VIN, and vehicle ID.
- Vehicle topology - A hierarchical structure where a fleet (at the top of the hierarchy) contains one or many vehicles, and each vehicle can contain one or many sensors.
- Vehicle virtual replica - A digital twin of a real-world vehicle. Often organized in a vehicle topology.
- Connected vehicle - A vehicle that is identified in the same way in both SKF and the TSP's platform. See the Connected vehicles section for more information.
- Gateway - A device that is located on a vehicle provided by a TSP. The gateway collects data sent by sensors.
Connected vehicles
Vehicle identification is fundamental in a connected TraX model because it enables SKF to notify the TSP at which vehicle a sensor either was commissioned or decommissioned.
A "connected vehicle" is a vehicle that is identified in the same way in both SKF and the TSP's platform. In practice, it means that the vehicle is identified using a TSP-provided vehicle ID and fleet ID. Other ways of identifying vehicles such as using the vehicle's VIN or name/description are too unreliable.
Apart from providing a robust way to identify vehicles during commissioning and decommissioning, connected vehicles are also easier to keep in sync between the TSPs- and SKF's vehicle topologies.
- Changes to any vehicle attribute (except vehicle ID and fleet ID) in the TraX vehicle store will automatically be propagated to SKF's vehicle topology.
- Removed vehicles in the TraX vehicle store will also automatically be removed from SKF's vehicle topology. This feature is limited to vehicles without sensors.
Note: these features are not generally available yet
How a "connected vehicle" is represented in the TraX mobile app
A vehicle's "connected status" is represented by a circle to the left of the vehicle's name in the TraX mobile app. A green circle indicates that the vehicle is connected, whereas a white circle indicates that the vehicle is not connected.
How to connect a vehicle?
A connected vehicle has the vehicle's vehicle ID and fleet ID attributes set in SKF's vehicle topology. Fleet ID is set when the fleet is onboarded to SKF's vehicle topology, and vehicle ID can be set each time a new vehicle is added to SKF's vehicle topology.
Making a vehicle "connected" can be achieved in different ways.
RECOMMENDED: Add vehicles to SKF's vehicle topology from the TraX vehicle store
Before a sensor can be commissioned, the TraX mobile app can search for vehicles, and in the list of search hits, connected vehicles from the TraX vehicle store are indicated by a green circle. By adding any of these vehicles, the vehicle in SKF's topology becomes a connected vehicle.
Other options for connecting vehicles:
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Through suggestion by the TraX platform - When the TraX platform identifies that a vehicle with the same name and VIN exists both in the SKF's vehicle topology and the TraX vehicle store, the TraX mobile app users are asked if they want to Connect this vehicle to the TSP’s vehicle. If the user selects Connect, the vehicle's identities are merged and the vehicle in SKF's vehicle topology becomes connected
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When a vehicle is added, and vehicle ID is manually entered - TraX mobile app users can choose to manually insert all the information required to define a vehicle such as a vehicle name, VIN, brand, and model. In addition, by inserting vehicle ID when defining the vehicle, the vehicle is assumed to be a connected vehicle. We generally don't recommend this approach, because vehicle IDs are often long strings of text that can be challenging to insert manually.
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