The equipment manufacturer ZF has just announced the takeover of the German company Intellic, which manufactures digital tachographs. His goal ? Create a “one-stop-shop” of digitalized fleet management.
With Intellic ZF wants to create the “one-stop-shop” of digital fleet management solutions. © ZF
In line with its strategy called “Next Generation Mobility”, ZF has just completed the acquisition of the German company Intellic. The latter, which employs 20 people, designs digital tachographs, available in 25 European countries.
“Integrating Intellic’s smart tachograph technology into our telematics portfolio advances ZF’s leading position as the ‘one-stop-shop’ for truck manufacturers, fleets and industry partners”declares Hjalmar Van Raemdonck, Head of Digital Systems Solutions in ZF’s Commercial Vehicle Solutions division. And to add: “As a single, regulated and trusted data center, smart tachographs will have an increasingly important role to play in the road transport ecosystem.”
A veritable “black box” of the vehicle, the box will include data such as the entry of local times, a clock, a secure global satellite navigation system, an intelligent system interface. The latter should also reliably and accurately collect and transmit data from a wide range of sensors and data sources, such as Adas or EBS signals.
The end of analogue tachographs
This takeover thus allows ZF to get closer to its ambitions in terms of Taas (Transportation as a Service) as explained by Hjalmar Van Raemdonck: “Harnessing the wealth of data from smart tachographs will open up possibilities for logistics and infrastructure optimization, and will leverage SCALAR, ZF’s recently launched digital fleet orchestration platform.” In addition, ZF’s tachograph also offers manufacturers the option of integrating speed, driving and rest time data into vehicle dashboards.
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Through this operation, ZF thus wishes to become a complete supplier of digital services, with the possibility of having from a single source of supply all digital software and hardware solutions for truck fleets. Moreover, it comes at the right time for manufacturers, who will have to comply, from the third quarter, with European legislation which requires the installation of new generation smart tachographs in new vehicles. And, by the end of 2024, we demand the complete replacement of analogue tachographs.
