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# Fleet Management - Reinvented

Rimac started with electric hypercars. Now they are a full-stack automotive powerhouse. Discover how their AWS infrastructure handles massive telemetry data to redefine fleet management.

- **Speakers:** Tonci Zilic
- **Event:** World Congress 2022
- **Published:** June 15, 2022
- **Duration:** 16:54
- **URL:** https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/473-fleet-management-reinvented

## Summary

Rimac Technology's evolution illustrates the rapid transformation from a specialized electric hypercar manufacturer into a comprehensive full-stack automotive technology provider. Initially challenged by a lack of existing automotive software standards, the engineering team iterated from a basic flight-sketched concept into a robust proprietary platform capable of managing connected vehicle data in the cloud. By building critical infrastructure in-house, they bypassed manual, cable-based diagnostics to establish a synchronized, remote data pipeline that currently captures up to 5,000 distinct telemetry signals at a 1,000 Hz sampling rate.

The resulting AWS-hosted infrastructure processes this massive volume of information using a key-value time-series database optimized for near real-time analysis. This powers two distinct interfaces: a sleek consumer mobile application for executing remote commands, and an OEM dashboard that equips automotive engineers with sub-second latency analytics. Crucially, the platform manages comprehensive over-the-air (OTA) software updates capable of re-flashing up to 70 individual microcontrollers per vehicle—well beyond the industry norm of updating just a few core systems.

Scaling this infrastructure from niche hypercars, such as the Aston Martin Valkyrie, toward hundreds of thousands of active vehicles introduces new operational complexities. Expanding data ingestion requires strict adherence to GDPR and advanced automotive cybersecurity compliance, forcing a shift from a "collect everything" mentality to highly secure, regulated data tracking. Ultimately, this connected infrastructure lays the technical foundation for the future of mobility as a service, transitioning vehicles from idle personal assets into highly utilized, data-driven fleet networks.

**Keywords:** automotive telemetry platform, electric vehicle data ingest, over-the-air software updates, time-series database structure, sub-second latency tracking, OEM engineering dashboard, mobility as a service, connected vehicle software, automotive cybersecurity compliance, TCP telemetry protocol, GDPR fleet regulations, remote vehicle control commands, multi-controller architecture, hypercar fleet monitoring, AWS cloud infrastructure

## Chapters

1. **Origins of Rimac and internal vehicle technology** (00:00) — How the company transitioned from a garage project to building hypercars and core vehicle technology.
1. **Conceptualizing remote data analysis for vehicles** (03:13) — The inception of a system to securely gather thousands of high-frequency signals from hypercars.
1. **Iterating from early prototypes to scalable products** (04:47) — Overcoming the limitations of early internal tools and restarting development to build a sustainable software platform.
1. **Building a custom vehicle telemetry platform on AWS** (06:52) — Developing proprietary in-vehicle hardware and cloud architecture to support diverse telemetry use cases.
1. **Engineering dashboards and consumer mobile applications** (09:03) — Designing engineering tools for near real-time fleet analysis and sleek mobile apps for remote communication.
1. **Managing over-the-air software updates for hardware components** (11:26) — Creating a proprietary system to manage versions and dispatch software updates to dozens of vehicle controllers.
1. **Navigating data regulations and the future of mobility** (12:38) — Adapting platform security for GDPR compliance and shifting focus toward mobility as a managed service.
1. **Data structures, unique identifiers, and platform scaling** (14:51) — An exploration of user interface libraries, time-series storage methodologies, and handling thousands of active vehicles.

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