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Business challenge<\/h2>\n

Our client, a Fortune 500 company and one of the world\u2019s largest cars manufacturer, wanted to explore the potential of fleet truck tracking <\/span> IoT technologies in the light commercial vehicles segment. Following a consistent path towards intelligent connectivity, they had a vision for a new, fully connected, integrated system linking vehicles and fleet managers via car-to-cloud communication. This fleet truck tracking <\/span>solution was supposed to benefit courier delivery services, car leasing companies, logistics teams, fleet route optimization software providers, and other commercial and government organizations operating vehicle fleets with the IoT development<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To realize this idea and speed up time-to-market for their fleet truck tracking <\/span>product, our client signed a partnership agreement with a German software development company. But after about a year of active development, it became clear that the project timetable wouldn\u2019t be met due to major issues in the frontend and mobile parts of the application. That\u2019s when they contacted Intellias, a reliable provider of location based and IoT solutions, to implement a GPS fleet management system<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Fleet<\/p>\n

Technology solution<\/h2>\n

Intellias has become part of a distributed development ecosystem, developing GPS tracking for fleet <\/span>in close cooperation with our client and an innovative German partner. We empowered our client with strong technical expertise and undertook a significant portion of work on their fleet tracking solution.<\/p>\n

To align all stakeholders engaged in the production process, our client holds quarterly on-site workshops for exchanging knowledge, sharing achievements and goals, gaining insights from other teams, and discussing burning issues. Our experts also participate in regular architecture talks to consult and decide on necessary changes to the application so it meets current requirements.<\/p>\n

Intellias is responsible for implementing native iOS and Android apps for GPS truck monitoring <\/span>as well as the Angular frontend of this intelligent vehicle monitoring system. We\u2019ve integrated maps, geolocation services<\/a>, and POIs. We also provide UI\/UX design for dashboards that provide data visualization and custom rendering.<\/p>\n

One of our partner\u2019s teams designs in-vehicle hardware connected to the CAN bus to collect information from various electronic control units. This team also works on the interface that provides two-way communication between the vehicle and the cloud via cellular networks.<\/p>\n

Our partner\u2019s second team implements the backend of GPS tracking for fleet trucks solution<\/span>, written in .NET and hosted on Microsoft Azure. The backend solution is a modular application responsible for telemetry aggregation and managing data transfers between the cloud server and fleet vehicles. It also features an API that exposes telemetry and processed data to the frontend.<\/p>\n

Our client\u2019s truck tracking system <\/span>is an innovative connectivity package that covers the logistics software development<\/a>\u00a0needs of its users. It captures data from vehicles either through in-car embedded devices or data collection adapters. With all data interactions occurring through Microsoft\u2019s .NET platform, data is synchronized and transmitted to the database for storage and to the frontend for visualization.<\/p>\n

Intellias is implementing mechanisms that allow fleet managers to:<\/strong><\/p>\n