Standards and ‘coopetition’

In the heavy-duty vehicle arena, adoption of standards for networking benefits everyone.

There is no better term than “coopetition” to describe how companies that produce today's heavy-duty vehicle network controllers, diagnostic applications, and protocol adapters are using standardization to maximize equipment up-time and decrease overall operating expenses. Coopetition can best be described as cooperation among competitors for the purpose of the common good of an industry, but limited to issues that do not impact competition. In actuality, standards in the heavy-duty-vehicle networking industry, produced as a result of coopetition, place every manufacturer on a level playing field, thereby increasing competition and providing customers with more features and functionality and better overall operator comfort.