New e-connected product family: Eberspaecher connects digital services

Esslingen (Germany), September 14, 2021 – The number of digital and connected components in vehicles is steadily increasing, thus making their integrated control and monitoring more and more important. With the cloud-based platform e-connected, thermal management expert Eberspaecher will enable digital components and services to be intelligently applied and connected in the future. The services can be developed and used in different ways to suit customer requirements. As its first feature, Eberspaecher offers the new online temperature monitoring service for cold chains, for example.

With the e-connected product family, Eberspaecher will enable connectivity and application of digital services in the future. Eberspaecher e-connected consists of three components: A cloud-based platform forms the technical infrastructure and ensures the digital services’ availability. These can be developed or integrated according to customer requirements. Via a gateway installed in the vehicle, information is collected, evaluated and, depending on the customer’s wishes, displayed via a dashboard.

First service: online temperature monitoring 
As the first service in the e-connected family, Eberspaecher offers the Cold Chain Monitoring Service for fleet operators: A defined, constant temperature is essential when transporting food, pharmaceutical, and medical products. The new Eberspaecher service seamlessly records the refrigerated container’s status: Via a sensor mounted in the refrigerated container, the system solution collects and transmits data (e.g. the temperature, site, battery status, and vibrations) through a gateway during the journey. Fleet operators can clearly track and evaluate this information in real time via 
e-connected. 

In the future, further e-connected services will follow. The automotive supplier will develop these either in-house or according to customer requirements – like preventive component maintenance, for example. 

Global Media Contact: 
Anja Kaufer
Head of Corporate Communications 
Eberspächer Group
Phone: +49 711 939-0250
press@eberspaecher.com

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About Eberspaecher:
With approximately 10,000 employees at 80 locations worldwide, the Eberspaecher Group is one of the automotive industry’s leading system developers and suppliers. The family business, headquartered in Esslingen am Neckar, stands for innovative solutions in exhaust technology, automotive electronics and thermal management for a broad range of vehicle types. In combustion or hybrid engines and in e-mobility, the components and systems from Eberspaecher ensure greater comfort, higher safety and a clean environment. Eberspaecher is paving the way for future technologies - mobile and stationary fuel cell applications, synthetic fuels as well as the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier. In 2020, the Group generated revenue of more than 4.9 billion euros.