Cargotec aims to leverage digital services to transform cargo handling operations.
New digital services provide huge opportunities for cargo handling industry
Cargotec’s vision is to be the leader in intelligent cargo handling by 2020. It plans to connect its entire fleet and achieve comprehensive data analytics capabilities. The key aspects and considerations were:
Geographical spread of equipment across the globe
Diverse business units and operations across the organization
Disparate equipment conforming to varied specifications and protocols
Integration with existing legacy systems to migrate them to a unified Cloud Platform
Need for remote on-boarding and diagnostics
Secure end-to-end data and communication channel
TCS and Cargotec co-create an IoT platform to collect, store, and analyze sensory data.
Our integrated solution enabled IoT-based, real-time data collection, management, and monitoring strategies. We provided a scalable solution using cloud Infrastructure as a Service, with secure data channels between the equipment and the cloud.
Key features included:
Data Lake and Big Data platform, enabling storage and reporting of data in large quantities, algorithm-driven actions, business process automation, and data publication through APIs
Web portals and Business Intelligence (BI)-based reports for KPIs, alerts, notifications, and performance-related metrics to support internal and external customers
Cloud-based automation, leveraging advanced Cloud PaaS services
Provisioning for real-time and advanced analytics on equipment data
Our cloud solution uses agile, IoT, Big Data, analytics, BI, and API.
