Your Fleet Is Already Full of Sensors
Every modern truck rolls off the line with a vehicle network, the CAN bus, carrying hundreds of live signals: how hard the engine is working, how much fuel is flowing, whether the PTO is engaged, what each axle is carrying on FMS-equipped vehicles. And many fleets have already invested in GPS trackers for basic track-and-trace.
The frustrating part? Most of that data never reaches anyone who could act on it. The tracker reports a dot on a map; the vehicle bus chatters away to nobody. Modernising a fleet often gets framed as ripping all of this out and starting again. It shouldn't be.
Start From What Is Already Installed
Kimax is built to meet your vehicles where they are. If your trucks already carry GPS units, we integrate your existing tracking hardware into the platform as part of onboarding. The install base you paid for keeps working, and the data it produces lands in the same pipeline as everything else. Tell us what is fitted to your fleet and we will map the integration path for your exact hardware.
The platform natively speaks the AVL protocol used by industry-standard telematics units, including CAN-capable devices like the Teltonika FMC650, end to end: connection handling, record decoding, and an acknowledgement design where the device only marks data as delivered once it is durably stored. Tunnels, pits, and coverage gaps cost you nothing; the device buffers and retransmits.
180+ Signals From the Vehicle Bus
Where a vehicle exposes its CAN bus or FMS gateway, Kimax plugs into it and decodes more than 180 vehicle-bus signals. The interesting ones for an operations team:
- Axle loads and gross combination weight: what the vehicle itself believes it is carrying, per axle
- Fuel level, fuel rate, and total consumption: the raw ingredients of burn-per-tonne economics
- Engine vitals: RPM, load, total engine hours, coolant and ambient temperature, service distance
- Operational signals: PTO engagement, brake and accelerator position, AdBlue status, dashboard warning lamps
- BLE sensors: Bluetooth temperature, humidity, and battery sensors riding on the same gateway
No additional sensors are required for any of this. The vehicle is already producing the data; the integration simply stops it from evaporating.
Where Purpose-Built Hardware Still Wins
If the bus can report axle load, why fit dedicated weight sensors at all? Two reasons. First, coverage: FMS weight reporting varies widely by manufacturer, model, and trailer configuration. Many vehicles, especially older ones and mixed trailer sets, simply do not expose usable load data. Second, precision and ownership: Kimax weighing hardware measures each axle directly from the air suspension, is calibrated per axle with a two-point calibration we can push over the air, and reports through the same pipeline with a full audit history.
The practical answer for most fleets is a mix: purpose-built weight sensing where load accuracy drives money and compliance, CAN bus integration everywhere it is available, and GPS telematics tying the whole picture together. One platform, one timeline per vehicle, regardless of which source produced each signal.
Getting the Data Back Out
Collection is half the story. Everything the devices report is yours to consume: a rate-limited REST API with self-service, scoped credentials for live and historical telemetry; signed webhooks that push fleet events into your ERP, dispatch, or maintenance tools with automatic retries and a delivery log; and Excel exports across reports and geozones.
The Bottom Line
You do not need a rip-and-replace project to get serious about fleet data. Start with what is bolted to your vehicles today, the trackers and the vehicle bus, and let the platform unlock it. Where precision matters, add purpose-built weight sensing on top. Tell us what is on your fleet, and we will show you the shortest path from installed hardware to live operational data.