Prototype for importing routes generated for realistic simulation of vehicles

Daimler FleetBoard offers telematic services by means of a special hardware installed in customers´ vehicles to collect and send data to the FleetBoard´s Service Centre (FBSC) platform. The quality assurance and testing department guarantees that the telematic services meet their purpose and no failures exist in the system. In that way, software that simulates vehicles´ behaviour is required for testing the functionalities of FBSC; however, this software uses simulated data instead of real data.In addition,the process of creating routes to simulate a tour is manual. Thus, this paper designs, implements and evaluates a prototype as mechanism of importing routes generated by real vehicles to the simulator´s database, so that realism is achieved to tackle the lack of reality. Consequently, an evaluation of the prototypical implementation is considered to guarantee the proper operation along the presentation, business and data layers.