Daimler Buses and ChargePoint have signed a collaboration agreement

Daimler Buses and ChargePoint have signed a collaboration agreement to enable transportation companies with multi-brand fleets to use vehicle data from Mercedes-Benz and Setra buses without additional hardware and on a larger scale in ChargePoint’s fleet management system.

With Omniplus On digital services, Daimler Buses offers its customers a wide range of connectivity solutions. There have always been several options for using digital services: conveniently in the Omniplus On portal or by integrating high-quality vehicle data into telemetry systems from telematics service providers and also through a broad portfolio of partner applications. Fifteen well-known European telematics and depot management system providers are already partners and offer their customers the Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) portfolio to integrate Daimler Buses’ vehicle data into fleet management systems and thus optimize fleet analysis and management. ChargePoint now joins this group as another major telematics provider.

Bernd Mack, head of customer service, parts and used vehicles at Daimler Buses, said: «I am very pleased that with ChargePoint we were able to have another partner for our Data-as-a-Service ecosystem. The partnership with ChargePoint is another important building block in making the use of vehicle data as simple and secure as possible for our bus customers».

Uwe Münch, Director Bus & Transit Europe at ChargePoint, added: «Many of our bus fleet customers across Europe have buses from Daimler Buses in their fleet. This partnership is therefore a real benefit for customers of both companies. With this new partnership, we are opening up additional options for our software users to optimize their bus fleets. And not only for electric buses, but also for conventionally powered vehicles, which our software also manages for mixed fleets».

Daimler Buses and ChargePoint: the benefits for customers

For ChargePoint customers who have Mercedes-Benz and Setra buses in their fleets, the new agreement offers several advantages: first, the time-consuming installation of additional hardware is no longer necessary because ChargePoint can use data from the Bus Data Center, which is a standard feature of all Daimler Buses. All that is needed is a monthly data package from Omniplus On, which can be purchased for each individual bus, and the release of the data by the transportation company.

Another advantage is, for example, that the Bus Data Center transmits more than 450 data points in real time and all vehicle diagnostic data. In addition, it can receive commands sent via the mobile network, for example for preconditioning the eCitaro, thus opening up additional options for the fleet management system.

Data protection at the highest level of security

Last but not least, ChargePoint customers using Daimler Buses vehicles now benefit from a very high level of security when it comes to data transfer. The reason is that Daimler Buses is the first bus manufacturer to have approved its vehicles in accordance with the new international cybersecurity directive UN ECE R155. In concrete terms, this means that data is permanently protected against unauthorized access with a very high standard along the entire connectivity path from the vehicle to the Daimler Buses cloud.