In-Vehicle Management & Logistics System: Stability, Flexibility, Ease of Use

A New Generation of In-Vehicle Management Systems

SPAR of Austria is one of the leading manufacturers in the European logistics industry.

In recent years, SPAR started to establish a new generation of in-vehicle management systems with three main features: stability, wireless communication, and ease of use.

Benefits of an All-In-One Mobile Vehicle Terminal

Considering the benefits of an all-in-one mobile vehicle terminal that is also detachable, most of today’s systems fall short of the opportunity and do not tap the potential of a re-engineering of the tablet PC to connect to valuable vehicle data.

As merely one example, this type of data functionality can enable tablet PCs to send sensor data from the engine or temperature monitors for food cargo cold chain quality monitoring. 

Due to the FMCSA regulation requiring ELD devices, a popular form factor for this logging is by a detachable handheld in the cab.

Whether for ELD process or considering the proliferation of mobile tablets in every stage supply chain in general, there will be an increased need for that handheld device to bridge data to the partner network to convey vehicle status. 

Most of today’s systems fall short of the opportunity to turn mobile tablets into a true Internet of Things (IoT) data gateway for mobile fleets.

SPAR’s New In-Vehicle Management System

SPAR’s new in-vehicle management system was a customized solution which was co-developed by Styletronic and Advantech-DLoG.

Styletronic took charge of the Windows interface software and system integration, while Advantech-DLoG provided the industrial grade in-vehicle devices plus hardware in interface integration.

Download this Case Study and learn how Advantech-DLoG with its professional expertise in this field helped build the required high-quality in-vehicle management systems for SPAR.