IoT Use Cases
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Fleet Management, Business Driving Force
In today's modern world, cities are constantly getting bigger, and roads are getting longer. But our physical strength is still the same as before. Therefore, with population density and the number of consumers increasing, we need more advanced vehicles that improve transportation efficiency in addition to improving the safety of machines and people. Fortunately, the digitization of fleet management has paved the way for future innovations.
Internet of Things, Champion of Disrupt
Private and public companies around the world are turning to new technologies to solve transportation challenges. Smart fleet management is a combination of Internet of Things (IoT) technology and its integration with other technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning to monitor and control the fleet in real-time, which will help managers make optimal decisions by collecting and analyzing data.
IoT technology plays a key role in the development of smart city, smart building, smart energy, and smart farming solutions. Research says the smart fleet market based on the Internet of Things will reach more than $16 billion by 2025. Here, you can see some impressive IoT applications for the smart fleet:
Real-time fleet and cargo tracking
Real-time monitoring of fuel, vehicle, and driver behavior
Sending alerts for the non-standard driver, vehicle, and cargo status
Enabling preventive maintenance based on real data
Providing suggestions for reducing costs and increasing productivity
Analyzing roads and suggesting the best route
Self-driving cars with route analysis capability
You probably have a thousand other ideas reaching your creative mind now that you know better about the rising fleet industry and the power of IoT in this sector. But, when applying IoT capabilities to implement your ideas, you will need certain skills and tools. Thingspod can be a dreamy tool to make your ideas come true!
ThingsPod, the Ideal Tool
ThingsPod is a comprehensive Internet of Things platform for managing your IoT devices, which makes processing, storing, and displaying data fast, easy, and delightful.
You can send all sorts of data related to the vehicle location, cargo status, and driver behavior to the ThingsPod platform using smart devices (nodes). Thingspod supports many web protocols such as MQTT, HTTP, and CoAP and other industrial protocols such as Modbus, OPC-UA, and LoRaWAN. Then, you will be able to process your data from fleet devices through platform programming blocks and display the information by default widgets.
In ThingsPod, you can manage the fleet in the following ways:
Collecting different data from vehicles and smart devices
Using Rules Engine for processing the gathered data and generating alerts
Calculating data and sending information to external systems
Displaying historical or real-time data by flexible dashboards
Defining Roles for managing users’ access to devices and dashboards
Remote control and OTA update for smart devices
Sending information with custom frameworks to external user apps
Achieving all initiatives with almost no coding!
IoT Use Cases
This demo of a multi-layered dashboard includes the following features:
The list of connected vehicles
The speed, fuel level, and health status of each vehicle
Creating alarms for parameters exceeding the thresholds
Displaying the current location of vehicles on the map
The history of the path taken by each vehicle
The temperature and humidity of the bus’s interior
The car’s odometer value
The weight of cargo in the truck
ThingsPod Roadmap
In the diagram below, we show the development process of a smart fleet solution, including transferring the device’s data to the platform directly or through intermediary systems and processing and storing information before sending it to the application layer (and vice versa).
Next-Generation Industries
Key Features
Data Collection
Collecting and storing telemetry and attribute data with high reliability through MQTT, HTTP, and CoAP protocols to protect data from network and hardware failure.
Management and security
Registering, managing, and grouping devices in assets while supporting encryption in the transmission layer and providing API for server-side applications to send RPC requests.
Rule Engine
Processing input data through creating rule chains by dragging and dropping pre-programmed blocks regarding alarm activation, transferring messages to external systems, filtering and transporting messages, analyzing, etc.
Data Visualization
More than ten different default/customizable widget categories: alarm displays, graphs, digital and analog gauges, maps, control tools, etc.
Multi-Workspace
Supporting multi-tenant and multi-workspace to allow one user to have different roles in several dashboards while being able to create millions of user, customer, and device groups in each separate workspace.
Edge Computing
Providing all the platform’s features on the edge where data is created. Automatically synchronized with the cloud platform to increase reliability and reduce latency in times of unstable communication network.
Assigning Role
Assigning multiple roles to users and customers individually or in groups to define their access levels to platform resources, including dashboards, devices, etc.
Solution Template
Ready-to-use templates of pre-designed scenarios in fleet tracking, smart office, air quality monitoring, etc. fields to reduce errors and enhance creativity while developing similar projects.
Start Developing, For Free!
By creating an account, you can start developing using the platform’s limited Free Pod resources. Also, you can enjoy a 10% discount on your first tenant top-up.