Imagine a 120-wheeled monstrous trucking rig carrying keratin-melting-hot molten iron ore at 1535 degrees Celsius. Hence, the rig at the steel plant in Jamshedpur must be monitored constantly. Even if one-wheel stops functioning or the machine develops a snag, the drill is to evacuate half a kilometre radius of all population while only a special purpose crane is allowed to near it. Collecting data from the mammoth and the special utility crane is a sacrosanct job.
Team Intangles never really thought that it would attract such gargantuan ‘problems’ to monitor and offer solutions to but they are rather gleeful about it.
Intangles, with its Digital Twinning Concept and a youthful team, was easily the most energetic and buzzing stall at Prawaas 2019.
Founded by four IT experts, primary focus of Intangles is to solve problems for the commercial vehicle sector.
Anup Patil, CEO, agreed: “It is a revelation how the industry works in reality. Our USP is that we have one device that works across all kinds of vehicles including the 120-wheeled mammoth or the special utility crane that works with it. You give us any vehicle on this planet, we will work with it. That is how dynamic our system is. We go to the fleet operators and ask them about their problems. That is how our solutions have come up. Now the fleet operators have started using the data in such a way that if their vehicle goes for servicing, they know exactly if it has been resolved or not just by looking at the snapshot of the errors and the report they receive from us. They merely share it with the service station.”
The device has been developed in-house including its hardware, firmware and the technology. Patil shared: “The device creates a virtual map of a vehicle on the system and starts analyzing its performance through multiple angles. For example, take engine overheating issue. Our digital twin solution will analyze different parameters like the ambient temperature, how the driver is driving, and what is the entire load on the vehicle. Based on all of these, the system will run the entire temperature phenomenon over a multiple drive cycles and see if there is any anomaly. And on that basis, it will fire an alert. That is predictive analysis. But if the vehicle has started underperforming it essentially means that the mileage is already hit and the owner is losing money. By doing predictive maintenance, the owner now can arrest the losses.”
Digital Twinning is more than Fleet Management Solutions.
Quoting the example of an India-based US company Intangles is working with, Neil Undadkat, Co-Founder & CTO, explained: “This company runs about 110 vehicles. They documented that they are saving 96 tons of carbon emissions every month using our digital twinning solution. It means that they are saving fuel worth rupees nine lakhs every month. We are already live with 7000 plus vehicles of all our clients. The amount of carbon credits we bring to our clients is huge. That is the overall kind of efficiency we offer by reducing costs at multiple levels.”
The biggest cost to the fleet owner comes from fuel, vehicle maintenance, and the driver and not necessarily the infrastructure. With BS-6 in the offing, the game is soon to change. Unadkat said: “Once BS-6 comes into picture, the road-side mechanics will drastically reduce. And fleet operators have shared with us that they cannot imagine operating these vehicles on road without our system.” And the major challenge for Intangles is to keep improving the solution at low cost since India is a cost-conscious market.
As the next generation is now taking over fleet operations, they wish to adapt advanced technology to optimize and improve their fleet and Intangles’ Digital Twinning Concept is winning the game for them.