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sensors in and around the vehicle. The new mobile Wi-Fi functional- ity will be offered with data plans that range from 200 MB up to 2 GB per month, says Michelle MacCollum, director of product management. Also planned for a future release is critical event video recording and an application programming interface (API) suite that will give fl eets the fl ex- ibility to use the data collected by IVG within their own apps, such as a driver scorecard. Engine commands Another future capability, planned for release in early 2017, is over-the- air engine programming. Omnitracs, in partnership with engine manufac- turer Cummins, will be able to send remote updates to engines. When an update is available, Cummins will communicate with the IVG platform in a vehicle for verifi cation before send- ing a fi le. Once IVG receives the fi le, it will interact with the driver to manage the install when the vehicle is not in motion. Cummins plans to make over-the-air updates available on its 2017 model year engines, says Mark Alsbrook, senior product manager of Omnitracs. "We are hoping to have this launched the day that Cummins announces it," he says, predicting that the launch date will be in January, 2017. In addition to sending updates, Omnitracs is working with Cummins to enable fl eets to adjust certain param- eters over the air. One possibility is to automatically change the governed speed limits of a truck as it crosses state lines, he says. Overall, the direction and strategy for Omnitracs is tied to management of drivers and assets that are con- nected to the Internet of Things, or as Graham described it, the Inter- net of Logistics Things. "At the end of the day we want to be the lynchpin between the driver and the fl eet manager, and across the network," he said. "We want our ap- plications to operate smoothly and effi ciently in that environment." ◆ Dan Speicher, chief technology officer of Omnitracs, spearheaded the development of the interactive voice command for IVG March '16 www.studentdriverplacement.com 1 1