Connecting on-road vehicles to cloud for analytics: a global auto giant’s fleet transformation with AWS IoT FleetWise
A leading global car manufacturer with operations across multiple continents, focused on delivering next-gen connected, autonomous and electric vehicles.
The Challenge
- Connectivity: Managing a diverse range of edge devices across vendors was complex and inconsistent
- Interoperabilityn: Integrating third-party IoT ecosystems and collecting varied vehicle signals posed significant barriers
- Big Data Management: Large volumes of telematics data led to high storage requirements and complicated transformations
- Security: Data security and access control during transmission and API integrations were critical concerns
- Cost Optimization: Controlling the rising cost of IoT data transmission and storage required an intelligent approach
- Scalability: The need for automation and standardized processes was essential to scale fleet operations globally
The Objective
- Increased optimization:Achieved through time-based campaigns and on-change signal definitions.
- Process streamlining:: Enabled through IaaC scripts for quick and easy vehicle registration.
The Solution
The solution developed and deployed is an innovative approach designed to demonstrate:
- Ingestion of telematics data: From Vehicle OEM’s micromobility vehicle fleet using AWS IoT FleetWise.
- Seamless integration: Processing the data over cloud for seamless integration with third-party fleet management platforms.
- IaaC automation: For easier provisioning of AWS FleetWise infrastructure and onboarding of new vehicles.
- Standardized IoT FleetWise Edge Agent: Enables simplified vendor-agnostic device integration with support for CAN Bus, GPS and custom network-independent data collection.
- Seamless integration: Native support with AWS IoT ecosystem and flexible signal catalog for multiple vehicle types.
- Direct integration: Uses Amazon Timestream and Amazon S3 with built-in data transformation and routing.
- Enhanced security: Ensures encrypted transfer and secure APIs via AWS IoT Core and IAM.
The Impact
- Operational efficiency: Enabled real-time vehicle monitoring and automated data collection, reducing downtime, manual effort and paving the way for predictive maintenance to lower repair costs.
- Fleet management insights: Delivered comprehensive visibility into fleet performance and operations, enabled advanced analytics for decision-making and simplified third-party platform integrations.
- Technical innovation: Implemented a scalable cloud architecture, vendor-agnostic device management, cost-optimized data collection—designed to support ongoing innovation and full-fleet expansion.
- Customer experience: Enhanced vehicle reliability and safety through real-time monitoring, with future plans to optimize routing, utilization and overall fleet performance using data insights.
AWS Services Used
AWS IoT FleetWise, AWS IoT Core, Amazon Timestream, Amazon S3, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
