Case Study: Automotus achieves complete edge-to-cloud IoT observability and 3x faster firmware releases with Datadog

How Datadog’s IoT Agent helped Automotus gain visibility into edge devices and cloud services

Automotus is a curb-management company that uses computer-vision edge devices to help cities and businesses optimize parking and reduce congestion. Because their business depends on distributed IoT devices, lack of hardware metrics and a manual, SSH-and-log-based troubleshooting process left the team blind to early signs of device degradation and worried about scaling for launch.

With help from Trek10, Automotus deployed Datadog’s IoT Agent and integrations (including AWS IoT Core) to centralize metrics, logs, traces and alerts from edge to cloud. The unified platform and custom dashboards enabled intelligent alerting and deployment tracking, resulting in a 3x increase in firmware release cadence, a 50% reduction in edge-device troubleshooting time, and a 100% increase in devices in production (now deploying firmware three times a week).

Automotus

Harris Lummis

Founder and chief technical officer