Transportation
Businesses and applications that benefit from Sierra Wireless solutions include:
● Automotive aftermarket solution providers
● AVL/GPS application service providers
● Suppliers or OEMs to vehicle manufacturers
● Road authorities: eToll collection
● Finance/leasing or insurance companies:
Pay as You Drive, Buy Here Pay Here,
asset tracking, stolen vehicle recovery
- Fleet owners: asset tracking, fuel management, driver risk management, driver duty logs, navigation and route planning, dispatch optimization
Aftermarket solutions for wireless fuel management, dispatch optimization, and vehicular/asset tracking are well-established. The trend now is towards basic, open solutions that allow operators to upgrade functionality as fleet operations expand. Today's customers are more sophisticated and demand a broader set of services and features for fleet management applications, such as vehicle diagnostics and broadband access for ridership WiFi access.
Sierra Wireless is recognized by the transportation industry for leadership in providing best practices for lowering development costs, reducing time to market and simplifying service deployments. We help you compete in this market with a broad portfolio of wireless solutions to give you cost-effective, open solutions and fast time to market.
Sierra Wireless advantage
Benefits to OEMS and Device Manufacturers
Sierra Wireless works with leading automotive aftermarket companies such as: Trimble, CalAmp, NavMan, and Masternaut. Our experienced professional services teams have the expertise to help you design the right product and take it through certification.
- Get maximum deployment flexibility from a comprehensive range of wireless modems and intelligent embedded modules, operating on 2G to high speed 3G/4G networks
- Be assured of reliable performance with products hardened to meet automotive industry requirements and proven in the field by emergency services and first responders who depend on mission critical information
- Reduce the cost and complexity of integration to legacy or proprietary equipment with support for a wide array of legacy protocols, open standards IP network security, and management tools
- Shorten network certification cycles with modules pre-certified with leading wireless network operators
- Be assured of network certification with verification expertise – 84 networks in 40 countries, so far – and strong wireless operator relationships
- Reduce cost and complexity by deploying, managing and supporting devices and services with Sierra Wireless AirVantage Services Platform
Benefits to enterprise customers and AVL application service providers
The Sierra Wireless line of AirLink intelligent in-vehicle platforms enables fleet owners and application service providers to quickly deploy and manage fleet management and GPS tracking solutions.
- Select from fully featured 3G devices with support for multiple peripherals (MDTs, cameras, printers, man-down alarms for worker safety, etc) including WiFi support and devices designed for tracking and vehicle telemetry
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ALEOS™ embedded intelligence enables persistent connection, ease of integration and remote management through the AirLink Software suite
- Designed and tested to Military Specifications to withstand the harsh environments present during in-vehicle applications
- Remote Application Protocol (RAP) for deep integration with 3rd party AVL applications
- Events reporting engine to deliver near real-time alerts to e-mail, SMS or 3rd party applications
Customer Stories
Products for Transportation Solutions
Sierra Wireless products and services for Transportation solutions