Introducing Data Central
Revolutionize Remote Measurement with Real-Time Insights and Intuitive Control

In the fast-paced world of automotive development, where every second counts, we’re excited to introduce Data Central – a user-friendly interface designed to transform how you manage and visualize data acquisition. Even when working remotely, Data Central offers the same level of visibility and control as if you were directly connected to your vehicles.

Designed with the modern automotive engineer in mind, our dashboard brings together four crucial components of data acquisition management:

• Create, assign, and monitor data acquisition tasks across your fleet with ease.
• Organize, store, and access valuable data with efficiency. 
• Seamlessly update and maintain data acquisition software across all devices. 
• Get a bird’s-eye view of your entire data acquisition ecosystem. 

Key Features of Data Central

Device Management: Monitor and manage your entire fleet of Flea 4+. Benefit from instant real-time status updates, comprehensive condition monitoring and helpful remote configuration features to ensure optimal performance of your measurement platform – from any location.

Job Management: Optimize your test processes with versatile tools that allow you to create, assign and monitor measurement tasks for different vehicle types and requirements – all via an intuitive user interface.

Data Management: Turn raw data into actionable insights. Data Central includes automated data organization, secure storage and easy access with advanced filter and search functions. This allows you to quickly find the measurement data when you need it.  

Monitoring: Get a comprehensive overview of your entire data collection ecosystem with dashboards that provide you with information on status, progress, data quality and system performance at a glance.

Empowering Efficiency

Data Central is designed with ease of use and efficiency in mind, ensuring you can maximize the power of your data acquisition system with minimal training.

• Intuitive Interface: Simple navigation allows you to immediately focus on gaining insights.  

• Real-time Visualization: The ability to monitor data acquisition live allows you to ensure data continuity at all times.

• Early Detection of Problems: Identify and fix problems as soon as they occur to make the most of valuable testing time.

• Efficient Troubleshooting: If a problem occurs, you have comprehensive options for efficient troubleshooting.

• Operational Efficiency: Optimise your processes to minimise downtime and reduce maintenance costs so you can focus on innovation.

Experience the Future of Data Acquisition

Data Central makes remote measuring as intuitive as if you were directly in the vehicle. Data Central is more than just a tool – it’s your partner.

Are you ready to revolutionize your development process?

Contact us today for a demo and see firsthand how Data Central can transform your data acquisition management.

Simple data acquisition with Data Central

Data Central turns the acquisition of vehicle data into an experience. The dashboard can be used to distribute measurement tasks, view measurement data and conveniently manage the Flea 4+ measurement platform. Benefit from a comprehensive display of status information in real time:

• to the system
• to the vehicle connection 
• to the measurement configuration

The aim is to enable an assessment of the performance of the vehicle fleet at all times. Fast and efficient intervention is possible in case of a fault. Maintain an overview of your vehicles and their data from anywhere in the world.

Advantages thanks to Data Central

• Real-time data acquisition: Receive live data directly from the field without the need to be physically on site. Request exactly the vehicle data that you need. The relevant measurement data is already available to you during the journey.

• Scalable platform: The cloud solution grows with your needs and is continuously developed further. Integration into your infrastructure enables direct connection to existing processing chains.

• End-to-end solution: Data Central offers a perfect symbiosis of services, infrastructure and devices that saves time, reduces costs and promotes collaboration.

All you need to do to get access to the data you need is connect the Flea 4+ in the vehicle, configure your measurement task and use Data Central. This plug-and-play solution is ready to use in just three steps and provides comprehensive fault analysis and detailed performance assessments of your vehicle fleet.

Integrated solution

With CarMedialab, you don’t just get individual products, but an integrated system that offers:

• simple operation (plug-and-play),
• repeatable use,
• detailed fault analysis,
• remote control options,
• and an all-in-one package.

This comprehensive all-inclusive offer makes CarMedialab a leading provider in the automotive engineering sector.

Intelligent solutions for the automotive industry

In the fast-moving world of automotive engineering, CarMedialab offers innovative solutions that shorten development times and increase efficiency. With a balanced range of hardware and software as well as a comprehensive service portfolio, we are your ideal partner in the field of automotive engineering. Our flagship product, the Flea 4+ high-performance data logger, meets the latest and most demanding requirements of automotive development. With modern vehicle interfaces, best communication and more extensive sensor technology, the Flea 4+ provides the perfect basis for innovative and exciting applications. Seamless integration into Data Central – a proven ecosystem of device management, job and data management, software management as well as suitable tooling – enables users to design their projects efficiently right from the start.

Visit our website to find out more about how we can turn your vehicle development ideas into reality.

How IoT technology will change the test culture
Cost-efficient solutions are a key factor in ensuring competitiveness in the development of future software-based vehicle functions. Due to the disproportionate increase in complexity, their validation and quality assurance is a high priority. In addition, the Corona pandemic shows how fragile current development processes are when local access to vehicle data is not possible. The use of IoT technologies can support the traditional development process and help in the transition to the software-defined vehicle. At the same time, the connection of cloud platforms provides cross-departmental access to test data, which also strengthens cross-domain holistic development, demonstrates synergies, and provides the basis for a sustainable value chain.

The approach presented here divides the phases of validation in terms of test equipment accessibility: local on site, conditional access, inaccessible.

Phase 1 | Local on site

IoT-enabled measurement equipment is installed to complement conventional measurement technology in the first phase. In addition to the vehicle status, this phase documents the functionality of all measurement equipment. Contextual information is thus added. If gateway functionalities are already activated at this stage, extended functions of conventional measurement technology, such as software updates, can also be used and additional added value can be created.

Phase 2 | Conditional access

In the next phase, the scope is extended by shifting the vehicle data acquisition from conventional to IoT-enabled measuring devices, thus freeing up existing resources. As accessibility changes, the need for management will increase. To ensure comparability of data, the scope or selection of data is of particular importance, as is the way in which this data is collected and stored. The shift in data collection also goes hand in hand with cyber security compliance issues.

Phase 3 | Remote access

In the third phase, as new features mature, the amount of vehicle data can be reduced to enable testing in the field with current mobile technologies. Evolving mobile standards and reduced latency pave the way for additional testing of intelligent vehicle-cloud interactions to offload computationally intensive and latency sensitive functions. This represents a bridging technology to the software-defined vehicle, enabling the use of cloud-vehicle loops and various downstream processing chains for efficient use of collected vehicle data.