A new architecture of collaborative vehicles for monitoring fleet health in real-time

Vehicle’s maintenance costs, uptime and security are considered the most important goals for owners and transport companies. The main objective of transporters is to respond properly to their customer’s demands in order to deal with competitiveness. Transport companies are working to improve the management of their fleets by focusing in particular on vehicle’s maintenance, which affects the vehicles uptime and generates the most important cost. Predictive Maintenance is a prominent strategy for dealing with maintenance issues given the increasing need to minimize downtime and associated costs. With the advent of technologies, transporters necessitate dramatic changes in transforming traditional "fail and fix" maintenance practices to a "predict and prevent" e-maintenance methodology. By addressing the fundamental needs of predictive intelligence tools and monitoring, the degradation rather than detecting the faults is supervised correctly in a cooperative fleet.