Phillips Offers Update on Ultimate Connected Smart Trailer

4 Mar by Vitaliy Dadalyan

Phillips Offers Update on Ultimate Connected Smart Trailer

Phillips Connect Technologies provided the update today during a press conference held in conjunction with the 2018 Technology and Maintenance Council Annual Meeting and Transportation Technology Exhibit. Photos: Jim Park “>
Atlanta, Ga. — Phillips Connect Technologies detailed the significant strides they have made in the past twelve months with their smart trailer product development. The company provided the update today during a press conference held in conjunction with the 2018 Technology and Maintenance Council Annual Meeting and Transportation Technology Exhibit.
Phillips Connect Technologies, a business of Phillips Industries, first spoke of TrailerNet during the 2017 TMC meeting. It is an open, completely agnostic platform for consolidating all smart-trailer sensors (from any supplier) into one central hub, using one data plan to deliver alerts to the driver, and customizable fleet management dashboards to the fleet’s operations or dispatch teams.
The package of products is designed to communicate and integrate into one master channel of information gathered by smart-trailer components, capturing activities and conditions that fleets require to make sound operational and business decision. The open platform strategy, adopted by PCT since its inception, is based on the premise that customers want choices and every company has its own unique needs. The goal of PCT is to partner with every equipment and smart-trailer component manufacturer to provide the best combination for each customer, while offering one data plan and designing the system for easy plug and play.
Fleets currently have such capability, but it’s usually built around multiple data channels from multiple suppliers,” says Gerry Mead, executive director of innovation for Phillips Industries. “That often makes this a cost prohibitive proposition, forcing fleets to choose from hierarchy of data. TrailerNet makes the inclusion of all possible trailer-product …Read the rest of this story

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