Traditionally, trailer health could only be monitored when the vehicles were brought into repair workshops. Between such maintenance events, there was no way to know the state of the trailer and whether maintenance was needed or not. ZF wanted to create a new product to revolutionize the way trailer health is monitored.
The product had to be built from scratch in collaboration with ZF’s own development team. Data from a new hardware device had to be ingested, the application architecture needed to be set up and the entire project delivered, in compliance with regulatory requirements.
Aloalto helped set up IoT ingestion pipelines using AWS IoT Core and worked on the serverless backend of the application, using AWS Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB and API Gateway.
The TrailerFit application went live for both vehicle fleets and vehicle rental companies in several geographies. Aloalto accompanied the customer for many years during development, go-live and also maintenance of the live application.
Our AWS team have fully embraced the new technology and are now AWS evangelists thanks to support and encouragement from all our Aloalto colleagues.
We have been working with Aloalto as a partner on a strategic project which will be the companies first delivery on the AWS Cloud. Working alongside our proficient but inexperienced AWS team, we quickly gathered a deep understanding of the AWS building blocks and gained quick momentum in developing our first AWS serverless solution with Aloalto providing the technical oversight, guidance and architecture know how.
