Who sees where a vehicle is

A connected vehicle reports where it is. That one field says more about a person than any other: where they live, where they work, where they park at night.

On c.technology the position belongs to the owner. Everyone else around the vehicle gets what their work needs, and for almost all of them that is not the position.

Who sees what

• The owner sees everything in the driver app, including where the vehicle is, and decides who else gets access.
• The manufacturer, the importer, the dealer and the workshop see the battery, the error codes and the service history. They do not see where the vehicle is.
• A fleet sees its own vehicles on the map, because they are its own.
• A dealer that owns vehicles, demo bikes or stock, sees those the same way.

The rule follows ownership, not the type of company. A dealer that owns a demo bike is that bike's owner, and the position comes with it. The same dealer servicing a customer's bike is not, and it does not.

What a workshop really needs

A mechanic wants to know what is wrong before the vehicle is on the lift. That is the error code, the state of the battery and the full history. The owner's address adds nothing to the repair.

So the dealer and the workshop hold a role that sees every data field except where the vehicle is and where it has been. When a dealer gives a mechanic a vehicle, the mechanic opens the error code and the service history. The position fields never leave the server.

Why it is built into the platform

Every data field has its own permission, and every request is checked against it: per vehicle, per person, each time, not once at login. When someone's access is removed, it ends at once, an open live stream included. Both the grant and the removal stay on the vehicle's history.

That makes the rule hard to break by accident. A screen cannot show a position the server never sent. And a manufacturer does not have to trust each partner to look away, because the platform never hands the position over.

It also makes the answer to an owner short: the position is yours.

The roles, the three checks and one vehicle as four roles see it are on the access page. To walk through it with your own partner network in mind, talk to our team.