Truck

Besides location, truck telematics records the vehicle's operating status, machine hours and telemetry data. At the Schielicke Bau group, DeDeNet tracking boxes act as a kind of middleware that collects data via CAN bus and other protocols. Digital geofences around a construction site also show how long a device was active there and what temperatures prevailed. Management and project managers can therefore see the progress of a site at a glance in graphical form.

Yes, the telematics box in the vehicle can read out the digital tachograph and transmit the data together with location and telemetry. This is how DeDeNet handles the trucks of the Schielicke Bau group. The data is stored in Telekom data centres, and all relevant data can be retrieved through an open API. Vehicle and trip data are therefore kept in one place instead of being maintained in separate lists.

License plate recognition identifies the truck at the gate, after which industrial cameras capture images of the load at the right moments. In the solution from TTS Automation and WAGO, cameras read the front and rear plates, assign the truck to its ERP order and direct it to the reserved ramp. Cameras on the ramp and on forklifts store an image of the secured load, and the timestamp and order number are burned into the image data.

A digitalised silo trailer can be operated from one place and documents every loading operation automatically. In the Silo 4.0 project, Feldbinder and ifm combined all mechanical and pneumatic controls into one touch display with an integrated controller. A database stores customer data, product data and unloading parameters, while geofencing, code scanners and RFID prevent mix-ups. Drivers no longer have to walk around the vehicle, and unloading times become shorter.