Hitachi Vantara wanted to highlight its new IoT platform, Lumada, and showcase its features, flexibility, interoperability and ease of implementation.

Hitachi needed quick results with this fast-evolving technology to put in front of peers and partners at a forthcoming developer conference. So they asked Matchbox to design and develop a working software demo of an intelligent fleet management and maintenance solution using sensor-instrumented snow ploughs. The building blocks were:

• the Lumada IoT platform,
• Cisco IOx
• Pentaho business intelligence software.

The system we produced offered:

• Real-time fleet management and monitoring to ensure efficient road salting, snow removal and use of vehicles.
• A live representation of snow plough operations through a web map and alerting residents of travel conditions.
• Machine learning for vehicle maintenance.
• Analyzing vehicle data to spot and manage irregularities.
• Increased speed addressing service calls for salting and snow issues.

Our work with Hitachi Vantara demonstrates that we understand what it means to be data-driven and how to leverage strategic cloud services to produce critical apps faster. It also shows how quickly we can grasp the essentials of a problem, the fundamentals of a technology and tool-chain, and deliver effective results on time.