Telemetry and automation platform for heavy machinery: embedded hardware, telemetry APIs and cloud infrastructure (Gorilla Telemetria).
The challenge
Heavy machinery fleets operate far from any office, on construction sites, at mining companies and in industrial plants. The data that matters — engine hours, fuel consumption, faults, position, actual equipment usage — was born locked inside each manufacturer's hardware, on proprietary buses, and only reached the manager after the problem had already cost availability.
The architecture solution
I designed the platform end to end, from silicon to cloud. In-house embedded devices with Atmega and ESP32 read the machine's CAN bus; rugged Android tablets bring the operation inside the cab; telemetry APIs receive, normalize and persist the stream; and the AWS infrastructure supports processing and hosting. I also led the modernization of the legacy systems to .NET and MAUI.
Results
Solution delivered to ZF Aftermarket, Heineken, CBA, Benteler, Greentech, Solvi and Veolia. Embedded hardware, telemetry data, backend APIs and cloud infrastructure began to work as one single thing, instead of four projects that talk to each other by accident.