Sierra Wireless and Agnik have a partnership to market Sierra’s AirLink (
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Agnik is a data analytics company for distributed, mobile, and embedded environments. The company's MineFleet offering is a predictive data mining system for both short and long-term modeling, benchmarking, monitoring and optimization of vehicle health, driver behavior, and fuel consumption. Information of a vehicle is optimized with this system so it is easy to send it over wireless.
Sierra Wireless (
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Sierra Wireless has already enabled Wi-Fi
into the AirLink products. These wireless communications platforms offer solutions for utilities, public safety, transportation, financial transactions and infrastructure monitoring.
With this agreement, customers can now have an efficient fleet management system built into their vehicle.
The system is able to collects data from the vehicle data bus
and perform analytics without any intervention from the driver. This can optimize fuel economy by influencing the driving style and can forecast the health of the vehicle to prevent break downs.
"We're very excited about the prospect of bringing Agnik's MineFleet technology to our customers. The combination of the MineFleet predictive analysis and our ALEOS powered devices brings a unique solution to the in-vehicle data market," said Andy Berman, senior vice president and general manager of the Sierra Wireless Mobile and M2M group.
"By giving fleet administrators the power to communicate with, locate and analyze their entire fleet from a single location, the combined solution provides customers with an effective tool to minimize downtime and manage their mobile assets more efficiently."
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