How to stream IoT & telematics data to Key Telematics?

Sending telemetry data from flespi to the Key Telematics tracking system.

Key Telematics is a SaaS platform for vendors of asset management and vehicle tracking solutions. If you want to feed the telemetry data from flespi to Key Telematics, follow the steps below.

1. Create a device in Key Telematics

  • Log in to your Key Telematics account. Create a new device. The most important part here is to specify the same Serial Number (usually the device IMEI) that your device connected to flespi has.

key telematics add device

2. Create an asset in Key Telematics

Create an asset in the Key Telematics interface and associate it with the recently created device.

3. Configure and assign the plugin in flespi

Create a special plugin to add the Key Telematics GUID value to the flespi device parameters.

create key telematics plugin flespi

4. Assign the plugin to the device(s)

  • Navigate to the device you want to forward to the Key Telematics platform
  • Switch to the Plugins tab
  • Click on the green "+" button to add a new plugin.
  • Fill in the required GUID field for the plugin.
  • Save to apply.

flespi device key telematics plugin

5. Configure the stream in flespi

  • When in the flespi panel, navigate to Telematics hub -> Streams -> "+" to add a new stream

  • Protocol_id — key_telematics

  • Type the valid URI and API key for your profile.

flespi create key telematics stream

6. Subscribe the stream to the device(s)

  • Once the stream is created, click on it to open settings.

  • Navigate to the Devices tab.

  • Click the green '+' button to pick the channel (or device) to instruct the stream to forward data from it.

subscribe key telematics stream to channel

7. Check message delivery

If you see the “stream has sent messages” log records in the stream Toolbox tab, it means flespi started forwarding the data via the stream:

key telematics stream toolbox

And you should now see your messages in the Key Telematics system as well as the asset on the map:

key telematics device on map

Change log

To stay in sync with all improvements and changes to the Key Telematics stream, subscribe to the change log on the forum.


See also
Apply webhooks to events from calculators to invoke your lambda upon an aggregated event happened to the device
A dedicated plugin enables the visualization of your flespi items parameters in Grafana.