Trimble debuts Insight HQ for aggregates industry
Trimble’s acquisition of Loadrite opened the company up to possibilities in the aggregates industry, including technological integration.
With the acquisition, Trimble also gained ownership of Loadrite’s scale technology, including the company’s loader scales, excavator scales and belt scales.
The scales have the ability to determine the exact weight of materials in or on the equipment, as well as track the operational activity of the equipment.
To coordinate with these scales, Trimble began to integrate its current technological capabilities with the aggregate scales. The company came up with Insight HQ, a browser-based platform where operators can view the data from their equipment, which debuted at the 2014 Trimble Dimensions User Conference.
The company integrated the scales with Insight HQ so the scales can send information to the Insight database.
“We’re bringing an improved version of the existing technology,” said Johan Smet, general manager of the quarry division for Trimble Loadrite, at the conference. “Insight HQ is essentially a consolidated platform taking a lot of the reporting capabilities we have from different systems. We’re bringing it to one platform.”
Insight HQ uses the Cloud to consolidate the equipment information from each scale a companies uses. By doing this, operators at different locations are able to access the information and determine the progress of equipment at a site.
“We’re showing improved reporting capabilities of all of these things,” said Smet. “We’re bringing improved versions of the existing scales from Loadrite, and we’re bringing a whole other set of technologies that Trimble already had.”
Elliot Chisholm, marketing manager for Trimble Loadrite, discusses Insight HQ.
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