Real-Time Fleet Management Powered by Confluent [Video]

Haulage companies, vehicle rental groups, and taxi firms rely on fleet management systems to ensure the smooth operation of their businesses. With the use of telemetry and telematics, they capture and process geolocation, engine performance, and fuel efficiency data (among other data) from IoT devices in order to better inform their logistics and maintenance programs.

The issue with traditional fleet management systems is that they’re often built with monolithic proprietary applications which are expensive, complex, and hard-to-scale. They risk failure in times of high throughput (e.g., as more IoT data is streamed from ‘live’ vehicles), and prevent a real-time view of the status of a fleet.

An event-driven architecture based on Confluent enables companies …