Case Study: Large U.S. Heavy Equipment Manufacturer and Logistics Company achieves 400% increase in vehicle monitoring and real-time fleet health at scale with Cognizant

Customized Cloud Framework Ensures Vehicle Health

A large U.S. heavy‑equipment manufacturer and logistics company partnered with Cognizant to modernize its fleet operations. Its antiquated on‑premises data center made maintaining and managing 400,000 pieces of equipment difficult, limiting proactive vehicle‑health assessments, analytics and scalability, while high marketplace licensing costs prevented an effective upgrade.

Cognizant built a customizable cloud framework on Microsoft’s platform to capture vehicle health messages (fuel, mileage, engine start/stop, service and parts needs), auto‑notify owners and feed a central analytics engine for real‑time monitoring. The solution scales monitoring from 400,000 to 2 million vehicles (400% increase), ingests 5,000+ messages/sec, enables predictive maintenance and better supply‑chain management, and saves roughly $75,000/year in licensing by avoiding IoT virtualization — offered as a service through dealers.