The Car as a Service market undergoes a progressive trend in growth due to innovative technologies and higher interconnectivity in the automotive industry. By 2018, all new vehicles in Europe are obligated to be equipped with a SIM-card in order to adapt to the eCall functionality for sending emergency signals. Also, the European legislation set up a roadmap for providing the necessary infrastructure in the following years. This trend of high interconnectivity is already visible in the fleet management market.
Based on the latter, our team – Be Most Wanted – came up with an idea of making use of new services in the latter discussed telematics market. Providing fleet managers with the highest information depth while at the same time emphasizing major problems within the fleet lead to an overall simplified fleet management. Moreover, costs regarding maintenance of vehicles, fuels costs and others can be saved. The result of the project is a web platform built for fleet managers to oversee the status of the vehicles, the driving behaviour of employees and the costs of fuel amongst others. All of those features are included in a notification centre where problems based on a pre-set thresholds are shown to the fleet manager. By using the BMW CarData platform, vehicles can easily be registered in the FleetMe system without the need of installing any hardware components.
Following the design thinking approach, the idea of the fleet management software was iteratively adapted and renewed. In this report all steps from the ideation to the implementation of the prototype as well as the calculation of a financial business case are detailed. Thereby, the project was part of the Advanced Practical Course Automotive/Mobility Services in the winter term of 2017/2018.
For further information read our complete report: https://github.com/DiegoGabo/TUM_Mobility_Services/blob/master/doc/20180306_Be%20Most%20Wanted_Final%20project%20report_F.pdf