Off-highway machine IoT specialist Elevāt has partnered with Cummins to integrate its Cummins Connected Diagnostics application with the Elevāt Machine Connect IoT platform. Users of Elevāt off-highway equipment will be able to access diagnostic messages and receive real-time alerts for Cummins engines and Elevāt’s data in a single dashboard.

Trucks and tractors used primarily off road tend to work in environments that place great strain on engines, with constaint use in dusty or debris laden conditions. Engines of off-highway vehicles can be exposed to contamination by particulates. Continuous engine monitoring is required to prevent unexpected breakdown.

In phase one, Elevāt has integrated Connected Diagnostics’ capabilities for Cummins engines which helps improve operating performance, boost asset utilisation and uptime, increase efficiency, and reduce costs.

Cummins Connected Diagnostics wirelessly connects engines to enable continuous monitoring and diagnosis of system faults. Site managers can make better informed decisions on whether to stop machine operation or continue to the end of the shift by understanding the suggested root causes.

Elevāt Machine Connect is an IoT platform that provides diagnostic data, monitoring, and performance control capabilities for the off-highway market. Machine Connect allows off-road equipment OEMs and fleet managers to collect and analyse data to identify usage trends and field-based problems with unmatched intelligent design and operational insight.

“This collaboration with Cummins enables Elevāt to serve our customers from a whole machine view of diagnostics rather than having them interface with multiple component manufacturers,” said Adam Livesay, Co-Founder, Elevāt. “This simplifies troubleshooting, reduces downtime, increases productivity, and optimises machine availability.”

Elevāt and Cummins will develop diagnostics and troubleshooting for major components, controllers, and Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) on mobile equipment to come through a single application.

“Working with companies like Elevāt allows Cummins to meet industrial customers where they are and makes it easier to get advice from Cummins remotely 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For those Cummins powered OEMs that choose Elevāt as their telematics partner, this collaboration between Cummins and Elevāt will allow customers to receive real time recommendations as to the health of the Cummins engines while using the Elevāt platform to monitor the machines’ maintenance, uptime, and utilisation,” said Ed Hopkins, Digital Solutions Business Leader at Cummins, Inc.  “Keeping the customers’ eyes on one platform for the entire fleet and all critical systems on each machine is a more efficient use of fleet managers’ time as opposed to having multiple logins with different screens to monitor subsystems of a machine.”