IoT Enabled Smart Joint Propeller Shaft
The Customer
Over the past 25 years, Spicer India has developed into a leading supplier of axles, driveshafts, drivetrain products and genuine service parts.
Spicer India Private Limited designs and manufactures drivetrain products for the OEMs of utility vehicles and commercial vehicles, off-highway and the related aftermarket segments, domestically and internationally.
Spicer India Private Limited came about as a result of ANAND’s joint venture with Dana Incorporated, a global leader in the field of driveshaft and drivetrain components.
This joint venture allows Spicer to make the most of the advanced engineering capabilities of SIPL and Dana engineers and develop world-class products.
Customer Expectations
It is very difficult for Truck Owners to know the U-joint, or universal joint failure alerts in advance. U-Joint is a part of the driveshaft that transfers power from the transmission to the differential and without it, vehicle not be able to move.
Therefore, the client requires an IoT based solution of predictive maintenance through which prior notification can be sent to truck owners or service/maintenance team before U-joint begins to fail & completely fails.
The Challenges
There were several challenges that implementation needed to be solve are as follows:
- No Power Options available- So need to maintain power consumed by all devices at minimum level.
- Poor feasiblity to fit any electronic device (specifically it was difficult to fit beacon and sensor on the cross as per structure)
- It was a challenging task to keep beacon dustfree.
Solution Architecture
Universal Joint Cross with Beacon & Sensors : HI-1824SB will specially be designed for the detection of real time Universal joint Cross temperature which should have operating Temperature Range: -40℃ to +85 , Humidity detection range: ±0.4℃ and battery life is 1 year & replaceable.
Hi-Gate : Hi-1610IG is smart tracker act which is perfectly suitable for vehicle tracking application powered through truck battery, having blue-tooth (Beacon) for local and GSM for cloud connectivity with in-built GNSS module to precisely track the vehicle position.
It is also equipped Li-ion for battery in case of power failure for 2-3 days & EEPROM & RTC to store the records in case of network failure.
hIOTron IoT™ Platform : An IoT Platform delivers a comprehensive platform as a service (PaaS) for rapidly designing, developing, deploying and operation of vehicle real time data monitoring & tracking with predictive, preventive & other business-related analytics.
Dashboard & Mobile application : Multiple user role level mobile Application & Dynamic Dashboard/Web-app access fully sync with each other.
Benefits
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