From steel to
digital beat
Smart Fleet Connect is a complete IoT platform for machine manufacturers, managing the full machine lifecycle from production to end use. We integrate the platform into your machine's control system and develop the features that make your machine stand out.
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Real-time telemetry and CAN bus data
Stream live data straight off the CAN bus and see what every machine in the field is doing as it happens.
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Instant fault detection and alerts
Know the moment a fault appears and diagnose it remotely, before sending a technician out to the machine.
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Full CAN history with time machine
Go back in time and replay full CAN bus traffic frame by frame, whether the machine is in the field or on the test bench.
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Live fleet map and routes
Follow every machine's position and route history across your whole fleet on a single live map.
Beyond Industry Standards
Mobile control
Put a modern iOS and Android app in your operators' hands for monitoring and controlling machines on site.
Time Machine analytics
Go back in time to analyze and debug machines, whether they are out in the field or on the test bench. View the full CAN bus traffic history, frame by frame.
Global connectivity out of the box
Deploy your machines anywhere in the world with zero hassle. Our devices come fully equipped with LTE connectivity and a data plan included.
Full lifecycle management
Transfer machine ownership and custody among service teams, resellers, and end users while preserving complete history.
Build for business value
Smart Fleet Connect turns your machine data into better service, lower costs, and smoother operations for everyone who uses it.
Reduce service time
Diagnose issues remotely before sending a technician into the field.
Lower maintenance costs
Cut down on unnecessary service trips and routine maintenance work.
Ensure compliance
Don't let new regulations slow you down. Our platform helps you to meet strict requirements like the EU Cyber Resilience Act.
Beat the competition
Stand out from the crowd with a modern mobile app and custom features that deliver real value to your users.
No vendor lock-in
Your data stays yours and is exportable at any time. Where OWA hardware is in use, the owa5x gateway is an open platform rather than a closed box.
AEMP telematics standard
We speak the AEMP Telematics Standard, so any fleet or ERP system that reads AEMP can pull your machine data over a standard API instead of a one-off integration.
Smart Fleet MCP
AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot query live fleet data securely in natural language. Ask your fleet anything instead of navigating dashboards, and act on what you find straight from your AI tool.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Our gateway wires into the machine you already build: up to four CAN-FD interfaces plus RS232, RS485, Modbus and Ethernet, 12 configurable digital I/O and 4 analog inputs. We have delivered production solutions e.g. on Parker IQAN-based systems, and we handle the integration work with your engineers rather than handing you a spec to implement.
Whichever gateway you want to use. We are not tied to one box, so if your machines already carry hardware you are happy with, we integrate with it.
What we recommend is the Owasys owa5X, and we can deliver it together with the software as one package: a rugged Linux computer made for machines that work where the weather, the dust and the vibration are part of the job.
- Computing at the edge. A 64-bit quad-core i.MX8M Plus at 1.6 GHz with an NPU on board.
- Room to work. 2 GB LPDDR4 expandable to 4 GB, 8 GB eMMC up to 32 GB, plus a microSD slot.
- Built to survive the machine. IP6K9K against dust and high-pressure steam, 9 to 36 V input with battery backup, secure boot and TPM 2.0.
- Running sftOS. Our own Linux distribution, with the packages a machine needs and nothing it does not.
- Low-power by design. The gateway sleeps with the machine and wakes on the events that matter, so it will not drain the battery.
Those specifications describe the owa5X package. If you bring your own gateway, what it can do — connectivity, secure boot, power behaviour — depends on that hardware, so tell us what you have and we will go through its capabilities and connectivity requirements with you.
Not for the gateways we deliver. The owa5X ships with global LTE Cat 4 connectivity, 3G and 2G fallback and the data plan included, so the same gateway goes to every market you sell in. Multi-GNSS positioning (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou) is built in as well, which is what feeds the live fleet map and route history, along with WiFi and Bluetooth for local links on site and in the workshop. If you run your own gateway, its connectivity and SIM arrangements stay with that hardware and remain yours to arrange.
That is what the Time Machine is for. Request a CAN history
export from the machine and replay the full bus traffic frame by frame, in the
field or on the test bench. You can unpack any signal, define new ones from a
J1939 PGN or a raw 11-bit id when the catalog does not cover them, and download
the capture as an .asc file for your own tools. J1939 DM1 fault
codes are decoded against your own SPN and FMI definitions and raise alerts as
they appear.
The platform follows the whole lifecycle. Custody moves from manufacturing to a reseller, to the end customer and to a service team, and the machine’s history travels with it. Access is role-based per organization: a customer or service group sees only its own machines, while you as the manufacturer keep visibility across every machine, organization and gateway in the system.
New software ships to machines in the field over the air, and every update is verified before it is applied. The gateway hardware has secure boot and TPM 2.0, and the cloud platform runs on Azure. This is also what makes meeting requirements like the EU Cyber Resilience Act manageable instead of a project of its own.
Your data stays in Europe. Everything is stored in the Azure Sweden Central region, and nothing is shared outside the EU.
Start a free trial at connect.sftech.fi: register your organization, invite your team by email or with your own SSO, and walk through the guided onboarding. If you would rather see it on your own machine data first, contact us and we will run a demo with you.
Let’s Build Something Together
Have a project in mind or a question about our solutions? We’re here to help.
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