Dutch IoT-as-a-service scaleup Hiber announced at last week’s CES in Las Vegas a version of its satellite-based Easypulse fleet monitoring system to support the tracking and analysis of heavy industrial vehicles and machinery anywhere on earth.

Developed primarily for the mining, construction, agriculture and forestry sectors, this second version includes Canbus capabilities that deliver more detailed data from heavy vehicles in the field. It can connect to any vehicle with a Can port and share data on a dashboard and third-party telematics services via APIs, enabling operators to manage a mixture of brands and models in one system.

Easypulse improves operating efficiency and maintenance scheduling of industrial assets and reduces emissions, thefts and downtime by analysing a wide range of information, from fuel level and vehicle location to engine errors and driver behaviour.

The system can also provide production insights, such as the distance travelled by agricultural vehicles during harvesting or the quantity of material mined during a cycle. Data are summarised in a scorecard and a ranking system, highlighting asset performance trends and actionable insight into vehicles requiring particular attention.

It includes a Canbus Edge Station that connects to a vehicle’s local data bus and transmits critical positioning and status data every 15 minutes via a global satellite network. The device can be attached to vehicles using magnets or custom mounting systems and is powered directly by the connected asset.

“Keeping track of valuable assets such as heavy vehicles in remote locations is near impossible without satellite-enabled IoT monitoring,” said Roel Jansen, CEO of Hiber. “We are using our expertise in IoT and connectivity to deliver global coverage and support a far wider range of industrial use cases with a complete solution that is affordable and easy to use.”

Easypulse lets organisations see where their remote assets are and how they are performing anywhere on earth.

“There is nothing better suited to monitoring excavators operating in places like open-pit mines in Mozambique or river barges on the Amazon,” said Jansen.

Hiber is an IoT-as-a-service scaleup serving the transport, logistics, mining, agriculture and other industries. It designs, builds and operates end-to-end technology for the industrial IoT, and has launched a global IoT satellite network to deliver cost-effective, easy-to-use products, including Hilo for oil and gas well-integrity monitoring, and Easypulse for asset tracking and fleet monitoring.

The company was founded in 2016 and has offices in Amsterdam and Delft in the Netherlands, and Maryland in the USA. It recently secured €26m in EU and private investment.