Xtellio and GSV collaborate on remote monitoring

Cloud-based IoT solutions provider Xtellio has announced a partnership with GSV, a Danish rental company and subsidiary of Kiloutou.

Under the partnership, Xtellio is fitting hundreds of sensors into the GSV fleet of accommadation, office and welfare units based on the Xtellio Xense solution.

The solution works via a centralised gateway with a sim card and an external bluetooth sensor, which transmits the data wirelessly into the gateway and then on to the cloud.

Then, through API’s, Xtellio passes the data on to the user to host on its own platform. GSV said it is working on a platform which should be available by the end of the year.

Peter Fritzbøger, director of commercial development, GSV, said the solution will enable the company to monitor various aspects of the environment, including temperature, energy consumption and emissions.

Tom Valback Aardestrup, CEO of Xtellio, said that the collaboration between the respective companies started last year and is currently at the test stage; “This specific solution has come about through a strong and pretty intense collaboration with GSV to really take on our modular devices and fit them into this particular challenge that GSV was explaining to us.”

Fritzbøger added that although the initial order is for 500 units, the company plans to fit its entire fleet in the future. 

He said, “We saw a demand from the market to collect data from our modules. Normally we collect data from our machines, but from the modular side we don’t collect data. 

“Modules are expending a lot of energy and this is why just measuring energy consumption is very important, but we want to take it a little bit further. We wanted to do more temperature control, control of windows, doors and so on.”

The partnership isn’t the first time that Denmark-based Xtellio has collaborated to develop solutions. Earlier this year the company, in collaboration with Cooper Equipment Rentals and Western Global, launched Fuel Xense, a sensor that enables fleet owners of fuel tanks to improve fuel management and monitoring.

Fritzbøger and Valback were speaking to IRN in its latest podcast. Click here for the full conversation.