By Bill Wade, Wade & Partners
The future of the heavy-duty truck parts and service business, in all channels, is computer and data dependent. Because our industry has not (in the past) been anywhere near the leading edge of technology-assisted distribution, it is interesting to take stock of where we are.
The history of modern computing breaks down neatly into five eras:
IoT-enabled truck maintenance will be this fifth distinct and meaningful technology epoch for the truck parts and service market. This technology will provide the tech basis for concepts such as predictive maintenance.
But Wait! There’s More!
Event-driven applications accept incoming streams of information from devices, people, and enterprise systems, continuously analyze that information, and then enable effective actions in real time.
In one vision of this idea (specifically with IoT devices), data comes in from the physical world via various sensors and actions are taken to change the physical state via various forms of output and actuators, basically diagnosing and fixing using system resets. Many event-driven applications incorporate the principles of edge computing and distributed systems.
