In 2015, Donaldson acquired FilterMinder, a wireless technology that helps manage the maintenance of air filters. Working with Geotab will help to build an "advanced filtration monitoring system in the market", said Nathan Zambon, director of Donaldson FilterMinder.
At present, the Geotab dashboard manages 450,000 vehicles with grades 6, 7 and 8 in the world. Geotab is a private company in Oakville, Ontario, specializing in telematics including GPS fleet management and vehicle tracking.
"We are very proud of Geotab’s ability to integrate its own open platform technology with excellent partner products like Donaldson." Scott Sutark, vice president of commercial vehicle solutions at Geotab, said in a statement, "We firmly believe that future maintenance will focus on interconnected solutions, such as Filter Minder, which will create value for our customers by improving fuel efficiency, reducing filtration costs and extending overall uptime."
Although this integration is still in the field test stage, Donaldson hopes to launch this solution for business in 2020, which will improve the visibility of the team manager and ultimately save the team funds. Try to adjust the alarm function on the dashboard according to the performance and performance of each vehicle and driver. Filter Minder system can be integrated into the existing filtration system after modification.
"Instead of connecting with a mobile phone, we used the built-in connection that Geotab already has. This can effectively convey information to customers and help them manage the fleet, "Zambon said.