IoT Transformation for Tire Management Company
See how Vervint partnered with the client to architect a scalable, efficient IoT platform migration and transformation with the capacity to support rapid customer growth.
What We Did
When Vervint began to work with the client, their IoT platform posed a risk to their future growth goals. We assisted with IoT transformation, migrating connected tire products to an AWS platform and using AWS products for data analytics. The company now has a scalable, functional, future-proofed solution that provides additional value and improves the customer experience.
platform migration
IOT
digital product
user experience
What We Accomplished
50-100% greater capacity than expected
the expected capacity improvement was 200K/stack, while actual results allow for 300-400K vehicles per stack
Replatforming using best practices
built more efficiency into the new platform and created a scalable solution for long-term success
“When your data is well-architected and your system is well-architected, you’re not playing catch-up any more. You have a gold standard you can take to a client and easily integrate into their systems.”
– Director of Software Engineering
About the Client
The client is a world leader in tire management technology, providing real-time data about tire use, status, and wear and tear. They transform the way that consumers interact with vehicles through connected pressure automation and predictive analytics, helping their customers improve forecasting, reduce emergency services, and implement planned maintenance for optimal fleet management.
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Driving better fleet management
Our client was an early adopter of IoT, introducing the idea of connected tire inflators, which can work even as the vehicle is in motion, as a method for improving fleet management at scale. However, the web-based IoT platform was challenging to maintain and difficult to scale. The company needed a well-architected, fully cloud-based system to improve cost control and scalability to accommodate rapid future growth, all without disrupting their current customers.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) had the right IoT platform for the client, along with data analytics and data services that integrated into the client’s product to provide even more value to the customer.
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With a newly-architected solution, our customer reduced its operational burden, created additional functionality and integrations for customers, and scaled its core offering to grow the business in a streamlined and cost-effective manner.
The client looked to Vervint as a reliable, trustworthy, transparent partner for IoT transformation that would provide a thorough analysis of the product’s current state and a well-architected solution that would lead them to a successful future.
Keeping customers at the heart of the project, we created and executed an IoT platform migration that not only met but exceeded expectations for functionality, cost, and scalability.
If you can be honest and vulnerable about the challenge that you are facing, Vervint is the best-built company that can address those things.
The journey to scalable IoT
The company had identified gaps in technology and also in the expertise and resources available to them internally. Because they had a great relationship with AWS, they approached them for more information and were referred to Vervint through the AWS partner program.
Not only did Vervint have the requisite technological expertise for IoT transformation, but we also shared values with the client—and together, we created a relationship based on transparency and honesty that remains today.
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Destination: Transformation
After re-platforming the connected tire product to AWS, the company could drive meaningful savings in casing life, fuel consumption, uptime, accident, and service failure avoidance. Equipped with the right information, clients have the flexibility to address tire health issues in the most convenient and economical way possible, controlling costs, limiting emergency services, and extending the life of tires and related vehicle equipment.
We helped the client migrate their entire IoT platform from an outdated web-based system to a state-of-the-art AWS IoT system. Rebuilding the solution and integrating AWS data analytics using IoT best practices improved the functionality, scalability, and cost controls associated with the connected tire product.
The extraordinarily high quality of the IoT platform migration that Vervint delivered had positive outcomes, including bridging the gap between business and technical groups, who came together to make the most of the new solution. It also inspired the rest of the organization to elevate their own projects and results to more aspirational ones.
Expected: 200K vehicles per stack
Result: 300K-400K vehicles per stack
50-100% greater capacity than expected
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Additionally, the platform’s scalability blew past expectations, achieving 50-100% greater results than expected! The client had hoped to include data from 200K vehicles per stack, but in production, they are now able to manage 300-400K vehicles per stack thanks to a very well-architected solution.
Now, after IoT transformation, the customer has a product that is cost-effective, scalable, and easy to integrate – fitting seamlessly into operations for client companies that run a variety of different processes on unique systems.
Vervint has the experience, imagination, and technical expertise to help your company make the most of its technology, get the most from its people, and provide the best to its customers. Contact Vervint today to learn more about how your business can leverage IoT for Consumer Connected Products.
