RVD Evolution

The Evolution Tree

Airmax Remote believes that RVD has an important role to play with interested parties and is enjoying early take up by various stakeholders including leasing companies, fleet managers, insurance companies and drivers and shows progress in these areas:

• Enhanced B-call, transmitting wireless data in the event of a vehicle breakdown.
• Dealership link, sending data relating to any malfunction direct to fleet manager and then on to the motorist's preferred dealership.
• Warranty analysis, enabling large fleets to monitor trends such a component reliability and life cycles and to feed data directly to the manufacturer.
• Remote software download, enabling manufacturers to provide a software patch to fix malfunctioning components, avoiding the need for a vehicle recall.
• CO₂ monitoring and carbon balancing.
• Driver taxation monitoring for 'benefit in kind' payments and expenses.
• Duty of care monitoring, including EU driver time directives and corporate manslaughter.
• Driver profiling for insurance data capture to inspire new 'Pay As You Drive' and 'Pay How You Drive'™ initiatives.
• The European Commission's proposal for a public E-call service to be established by 2009 could see all new vehicles equipped with communications platforms capable of supporting additional telematics services, including remote diagnostics.

However new services are being launched as a result of advances in RVD data and improved bandwidth on GSM.

These are seen as:

• Capture of video images or rapid frame clips attached to CAN-bus data streams. Useful for crash and incident replays.
• Crash notification to alert third parties on incidents that may require a courtesy car or emergency service support.
• Vehicle condition based servicing for proactive Condition Linked Maintenance (CLM).
• ECU updating and mini service checking – essentially a scan disc tool for the car.
• Event data recording for forensic analysis.

The European Commission's proposal for a public E-call service to be established by 2009 could see all new vehicles equipped with communications platforms capable of supporting additional telematics services, including remote diagnostics.