About

The Client is an Australian company that provides IoT solutions for fleet, asset, and team management optimization to 2,000+ corporate customers.

Challenge

The Client provides fleet management IoT solutions and a variety of tracking devices to businesses across the globe. As the core of its IoT solutions, the Client used third-party fleet management SaaS platforms. However, the platforms charged each of the Client IoT devices separately, and when the Client customer base grew to over 2,000 firms with 26,500+ IoT devices, the subscription costs increased greatly. So, the Client decided to develop a custom fleet management solution, which would be much more cost-effective in the long term.

Solution

In 2019, the Client commissioned VolgoTechnologies, a fleet management software developer with 12-year experience in IoT, to build its new fleet management solution. In 2020, VolgoTechnologies IoT team delivered a custom fleet management system hosted on AWS. The solution supports GPS trackers and accelerometers as well as temperature and humidity sensors that are connected via Bluetooth. The system consumes, stores and processes data from sensors, and users can access the processed data via web and mobile apps.

To ensure a quicker payback from the solution, VolgoTechnologies started by delivering an MVP. Already at that stage, the Client was able to switch the users who needed just the features the MVP covered, from the SaaS platforms to the custom solution, thus, reducing the subscription fees. After that, our team was continuously improving the solution functionality and adding new features according to the Client requirements.

Staging

Datawarehouse

Dataware House

Desktop Application

Results

The Client received a cost-effective and scalable fleet management product that can easily support thousands of devices. The Client is fully satisfied with the ongoing partnership with VolgoTechnologies and continues cooperation to further enrich the product functionality. As of December 2022, our team is implementing the billing functionality by creating integrations with the Client accounting system and a payment processing platform. The feature will support automated generation of invoices for the solution users and payments by cards and bank transfers.

Technologies and Tools

Cloud: AWS (EC2, Amazon Relational Database Service, RabbitMQ, MemoryDB, OpenSearch, SNS, SES, CloudWatch). Front end: Angular. Back end: PHP, Symfony, PostgreSQL.