Case Study: Leading U.S.-based Heavy Equipment Manufacturing Company achieves scalable telemetry, real-time insights and data monetization with Cognizant

LOT Enables Data Insights and Innovation at Heavy Equipment Company

A leading U.S.-based heavy equipment manufacturer had collected telemetry for over a decade but struggled with disjointed, siloed systems that limited enterprise analytics and data monetization. The company needed to scale connected machines from 300,000 to 2 million, increase field data capture from 15 GB to 6,000 TB per day, cut data access from weeks to hours, and create new revenue streams from equipment data.

Cognizant built a unified Microsoft Azure–based IoT telemetry platform using Event Hub, Apache Storm on HDInsight, Blob and NoSQL storage, custom parsing routines, and an API layer to centralize ingestion, storage and access. The solution produced a single enterprise data warehouse, enabled near-real-time analytics and third-party applications, unlocked new monetization opportunities for dealers and partners, and positioned the company to scale and innovate more effectively.