Mahindra’s iMAXX telematics technology to boost fleet management of Indian trucks

iMAXX helps in precise predictability and control over the fleet, leading to higher profits, easier ownership experience, and enhanced productivity. Offered as standard across its BS6 range of HCVs, ICVs, and LCVs with a free subscription package.

Mahindra Truck and Bus (MTB) announced the launch of its revolutionary connected vehicle technology, Mahindra iMAXX. This new telematics platform is fitted into Mahindra’s BS6 emission norms compliant CV range, including the BLAZO X range of HCVs, FURIO range of ICVs & LCVs and CRUZIO range of buses. This new technology promises to strengthen further the value proposition of the MTB range for its discerning customers.

The new Mahindra iMAXX technology, coupled with the tried & tested BS6 engines (mPOWER and MDI Tech) with fuelsmart technology and robust aggregates, retaining over 90% of the parts of the erstwhile BS4 vehicles, will help fleet owners and transporters transition to the BS6 ownership experience smoothly and efficiently. 

Speaking on the initiative, Jalaj Gupta, Business Head, Commercial Vehicles, Mahindra & Mahindra said, “At Mahindra we are the pioneers in Connected Vehicle technology, which has become even more important in the new BS6 era, given the increase in electronics based vehicle controls.”

“The Mahindra iMAXX telematics solution, is based on next generation telematics technology and is at the heart of our brand promise -HAR CHEEZ GUARANTEE KE SAATH, for our BS6 vehicles. It is an intelligent fleet telematics solution which deploys cutting-edge telemetry technology like Dual CAN (Controller Area Network), 4G and other leading digital technologies, including Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, to provide powerful insights on vehicle health and performance. This helps in maximizing returns for Fleet Owners”, Gupta added.

Mahindra iMAXX, enhanced fleet operations efficiency leads to higher asset productivity/ fleet utilization, lower costs of operations, and higher fleet safety. Mahindra iMAXX, is an intelligent platform and a differentiated solution compared to other offerings in the market that focus mainly on location tracking based services and basic vehicle electronic data. 

Mahindra says customers are getting nearly 10% better fuel mileage and achieving 100% asset productivity improvements in terms of kilometers driven per vehicle per day, thanks to the intelligent insights provided by the iMAXX platform that was soft-launched and co-created with customers in the earlier BS4 era.

iMAXX Telematics Platform offers benefits such as 

Embedded Device Capability: The core capability of the Mahindra iMAXX embedded device is to absorb large scale, high frequency engine, and allied system data securely, and transmit on a real-time basis over 4G airwaves for server processing. To put this in perspective, the amount of data transmitted through the Mahindra iMAXX device from the vehicle is on an average, 600% higher than the previous generation telematics systems available in the market.

Digital Twin Platform: Once such a large amount of data comes into Mahindra iMAXX cloud servers, the machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence models put in place at the Mahindra iMAXX digital twin platform level helps provide accurate, reliable and predictive business and engineering insights. While most telematics solutions fetch and show vehicle data to customers without further intelligence or analysis, Mahindra iMAXX has the unique and unparalleled capability to add machine intelligence to normal data for enhanced credibility efficacy and reliability – Mahindra claims it is a first in Indian CV industry.

Customer Benefits

To appreciate the power and uniqueness of this solution, and how this technology powers our service guarantees for customers, consider this actual case that occurred on one of the customer’s vehicles during Lockdown 1.0. 

The artificial intelligence built into the system that monitors multiple correlated vehicle parameters was able to predict an engine cooling system issue, 33 hours before it actually occurred on the vehicle i.e., a vehicle sending a high coolant temperature fault code through its ECU. 

With the predictive alert available at the right time to its NOW 24X7 helpline and Uptime monitoring team and to the customer, coupled with the agility and timely action of the customer support team, a possible major vehicle breakdown was averted, and the driver continued on the trip after minor repairs provided by MTB’s mobile service van.

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