Another warm season is passing in the northern hemisphere, and Lithuania is no exception. Despite daytime temperatures still hitting +28°C, the nights are getting colder and wetter, with a lingering feeling that this summer fiesta is winding down.
This last month of summer, part of our team was still on vacation, but starting September, we're back at full speed—fine-tuning the flespi platform's internal components and rolling out new features for our users.
Our uptime in August 2024 was 99.9967%, with a single 90-second downtime on August 16 due to a brief interruption of REST API services during internal maintenance.
Overall, this summer, we focused on integrating Tachograph functionality into flespi and enhancing the video telematics features released at the end of 2023.
Video telematics functionality in flespi is maturing fast, and even better, its popularity is growing among our users. Currently, around 100GB of device media data is stored in flespi, nearly doubling each month. We’re gaining insights into which video device manufacturers are preferred by our users, which devices work seamlessly with video listing/streaming/uploading, which manufacturers are quick to improve their firmware based on user feedback, and which devices don’t make any troubles at all. Although the total number of MDVRs connected to flespi is just over 3,000, making it too early to share broad conclusions, we will definitely publish our findings in the future. Ultimately, everyone—from users and TSPs to backend platform providers—wants device data to flow smoothly and minimize support inquiries, even if AI is doing the heavy lifting.
Regarding the tacho functionality in flespi, we’ve completed the full cycle for downloading .ddd files in our local playground and are gradually committing this feature to the production system. Initial tachograph support has set sail for Ruptela and Queclink, BCE (Xirgo) and Teltonika tacho-enabled devices are next in line for integration. Our solution includes a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac) open-source tacho card reading application that you can use as is or fork and adapt to your needs. This application needs to be installed on client PCs or in a data center (for tacho card hotels) to provide your flespi channel with access to the company card for tachograph authorization. We're also open to integrating with other similar applications currently available on the market. If you plan to integrate tachograph functionality via flespi into your application, we recommend waiting two more months until everything is fully settled.
We have also integrated the Affortech protocol into flespi.
For those keeping an eye on current telematics market trends, I suggest checking out our articles on the top Queclink trackers on flespi in 2024 and the Micromobility device rankings for 2024. Both contain valuable data for market analysis.
Additionally, we've published several articles about our European users—what they appreciate about flespi, how it supports their solutions, and more. If you’re considering developing your own telematics application in a specific business vertical, these could be inspiring reads.
Currently, we’re developing an AI-powered device assistance application based on the manuals. Supplied with your token, it can be embedded in your website or app as we believe AI service will have great value and want to deliver it to all telematics market users. While we expect manufacturers to eventually provide their own AI agents, for now, this is the only AI that truly understands our devices.
We’re very close to hitting our first million registered devices in flespi—I’m confident we’ll cross that milestone in September. Although our team is more focused on things that really matter, reaching this number is still a significant achievement. Reflecting on flespi's mission from seven years ago, I would say it remains unchanged:
“Provide application developers in this market with the best technological and reliable backend undertaking everything related to telematics — data access, communication with devices, AI and neural network algorithms for event detection and processing, so that consumers of the flespi platform can focus on their main mission—a business application that processes telematics data and delivers a proprietary product."
Here’s to a fantastic September!