I don’t know exactly what the global weather in August was, but in Europe it felt rather strange this summer – especially in Lithuania, where wet and cold days quickly switched to hot and dry. Kind of spreading waves of heat and rain. Seems like the effect of global warming is catching up with us. Hopefully, our telematics technology contributes to ecology and slightly improves it by optimizing fleet utilization. A few years ago, I even estimated the effect of our work in Gurtam with multimillion-vehicle tracking products such as Wialon and flespi to be equal to hundreds of new trees planted daily.
In August, half of our team was away on long-awaited vacations, while the rest kept product operations running. The result: 100% monthly uptime with zero incidents.
We implemented a media-upload-s3 stream that will automatically upload video and tachograph files to Amazon S3 storage once a device reports them. For video, this stream offers a low-cost option for long-term storage. For tacho files, it enables durable private archiving for compliance reasons. We are also considering a similar stream for automatic media uploads to an FTP server.
We integrated a new seeworld protocol into flespi.
Also in August, numerous users and manufacturers reached out to us about timestamp anomalies affecting GPS tracking devices equipped with MTK2503D and MT3333 chipsets. The GPS Week Rollover issue – caused by GPS week numbers being stored in a 10-bit binary format, resulting in a rollover every 1024 weeks – made legacy devices from Micodus, SinoTrack, Coban, Xeeletech, Jimi IoT, and Teltonika report incorrect timestamps (often dating back to 2006) and, in some cases, freeze position data. Our team implemented comprehensive protocol-level fixes, automatically correcting affected timestamps and ensuring seamless data processing.
We also published a detailed article describing how Gen4 of our AI platform is designed and operates. For the whole summer – three months in a row – AI has been handling exactly 91% of our support operations, which is an incredible number. And right now, we are already working on Gen5, which promises to be a revolutionary step compared to Gen4.
In September, flespi will participate in the Telematics and Connected Mobility conference in Vilnius – a great chance to meet members of the flespi team in person. I know that quite a few of our users will attend this event, and I can’t wait to see and talk with them soon!