Original technology manufacturers (OTMs) could benefit from standardizing access to onboard data through open protocols or standard communications:
- enables development of smarter, more tightly integrated products (for example, asset health, safety including fatigue and proximity, standalone machine guidance – no FMS required, more integrated FMS, etc)
- Allows OTMs to focus on the application, to create value and differentiation
- Creates opportunity to sell license for API or other data access methods
- Reduced cost of individual interface development
- Simplifies interface development, making it less reliant on relationship with OEMs
- Reduced barriers to selling to all customers by reducing infrastructure requirements, allowing easy integration with 3rd party products
- Greater ability to learn from and leverage technology and solutions from other industries
- Lower cost of entry for new OTMs to get established in the mining industry
- Avoid the risk of developing on a protocol/platform that will become obsolete
- Create unique, standardized definitions on the content of all parameters used in IREDES to ensure parameters from different systems have the same meaning – and machines can “talk to” and “understand” each other
