Stakeholder: Vehicle manufacturers
Integration without friction
Your vehicles are seamlessly integrated without additional engineering effort and are ready for use from the first day of operation. The ETC Platform acts as proven middleware that reliably connects your trains and buses to any operator’s systems.
Overview
Integrate vehicles faster. Implement projects more securely with Vehicle Cloud.
Your vehicles should function reliably with different operators, in various countries, and within existing IT landscapes. At the same time, the requirements for passenger information, real-time data, vehicle communication, and system integration are increasing.
The ETC Platform creates a standardized connection between vehicles, control centers, and passenger information systems. This reduces integration efforts, project risks, and individual adjustments from the first vehicle to the entire fleet.
Everyday challenges
Does this sound familiar?
Each operator has its own processes, control centers, interfaces, and technical requirements. This results in high engineering efforts, additional project costs, and risks during commissioning and acceptance.
Interfaces have to be re-aligned for each operator.
Onboard systems are dependent on specific control centers or integrations.
Responsibilities between vehicle supplier, integrator, and operator are not always clear.
Individual adjustments increase maintenance and lifecycle costs.
Commissioning is delayed due to integration and acceptance issues.
The solution
The ETC Platform fills exactly these gaps
The vehicle connection of the ETC Platform creates a standardized integration layer between vehicles and operator landscapes. Onboard systems are decoupled from individual control center connections and can be operated via a uniform communication architecture.
This reduces engineering efforts, integration risks, and follow-up costs throughout the entire vehicle lifecycle.
At a glance
What the ETC Platform offers you
Scaling
Integrate once, use many times
The vehicle connection of the ETC Platform connects onboard systems with different operator environments. Once developed, integrations can be used across multiple projects, operators, and vehicle series.
Standards
Open to established industry standards
The platform supports standards and exchange formats like TAP-TSI, VDV, railML®, UIC, GTFS, SIRI, and NeTEx. This makes it easier to integrate vehicles into existing operational and information landscapes.
Economy
Sustainably reduce integration effort
Standardized interfaces and reusable integrations reduce project effort, shorten commissioning, and minimize later operational adjustments.
Onboard Info
Passenger information integrated at the factory
Vehicles can be delivered with complete provision for displays, announcements, line information, real-time data, and other information systems. All relevant content is centrally provided and managed.
Monitoring
Create transparency over vehicle operation
Diagnostic information, status messages, and technical events can be centrally recorded and passed on to operator, control center, or workshop systems. This allows errors to be detected more quickly and operational interruptions to be reduced.
Partnership
Deliver successful fleets together as a technology partner
ETC Solutions accompanies vehicle manufacturers from integration through commissioning to regular operation. The goal is a solution that not only works technically but also integrates seamlessly into the existing operator landscape.
Less integration effort. Shorter project durations. More reusability.
Solutions overview
Suitable solutions for vehicle manufacturers
For vehicle manufacturers
Vehicle Cloud
Standardized connection of all vehicle types to the ETC Platform.
For all actors
Reporting & Analytics
Evaluations and reports directly from ongoing operations.
For all actors
Add-On functions
Expandable functions for specific requirements.
In the field
Proven by leading vehicle manufacturers
The technologies of ETC Solutions are already used in projects with vehicles from leading manufacturers such as Siemens, Alstom, and Stadler. The platform supports both individual projects and international fleet programs, creating a stable foundation for long-term operations.
An integration platform for modern vehicle fleets: open, scalable, and manufacturer-independent.
Our customers
From practice
Success Stories
Vehicle manufacturer – Siemens Mobility
Stable passenger information during fleet transitions
As part of the Mireo replacement fleet project on the MEX13 line in Baden-Württemberg, the ETC Platform serves as the central passenger information system for the entire fleet.
Leasing & Rental Vehicles – Smart Train Lease
Plug & Play for rental vehicle fleets
Smart Train Lease uses the ETC Platform to connect its rental vehicles to new RBL/ITCS systems via plug and play in days instead of months, without recurring engineering effort during operator changes.
Vehicle manufacturers & vehicle middleware – Stadler
Plug-and-Play Integration for 300+ FLIRT trains
Standardized, reusable onboard middleware provides data and interfaces in a uniform format so that FLIRT vehicles can be used flexibly with changing operators.
Vehicle Manufacturers & Middleware – Alstom
Integration platform for the Coradia-Max fleet
Unified on-board middleware that connects subsystems and provides standardized data and interfaces for operators and external systems, enabling multi-operator rollouts across regions and countries.
Voices from the market
What our customers say
Fleet integration
Collaboration with ETC Solutions has been characterized from the beginning by a deep understanding of our business model and the requirements of the modern rail market.
We were particularly impressed by the combination of technical excellence, rapid implementation, and a highly available cloud platform, which provides our customers with maximum operational security and trust. As a result, it allows us to integrate vehicles in days instead of months, a decisive competitive advantage for our business model.
Smart Train Lease
- Vehicle leasing
Destan Sokoloff - Sales
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