Cummins, in collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation, Microsoft and other industry partners, released the Open Telematics Framework on Monday.
It is designed to allow companies accelerate time to market and reduce costs in writing their own telematics application and deploy it to any hardware running the Open Telematics Framework. The companies say it will eliminate the complex customization and reprogramming efforts that have historically burdened telematics application developers.
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"We believe there is a better way for the industry to advance digital technologies by removing much of the costly and time-consuming development efforts that most companies experience when bringing new telematics applications and features to market," says Sherry Aaholm, vice president and chief digital officer at Cummins. "We are contributing this open telematics infrastructure through a non-commercial license because we believe having a common telematics environment will enable the industry to develop customer-facing applications more quickly and easily, bringing the value to our customers sooner."
Cummins will release the framework through the Eclipse Foundation's Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Working Group. The SDV includes 38 automotive and technology companies.
"We welcome [Cummins'] participation and view this as another exciting milestone towards building an automotive software ecosystem delivering production-ready technology the industry can use to implement the future of the connected vehicle," says Executive Director Mike Milinkovich, the Eclipse Foundation.
For Microsoft's part, the company is working on cloud management capabilities that, when combined with Cummins' in-vehicle capabilities, will result in an open and comprehensive end-to-end solution.
