SMT (Service Machinery Trucks) in the Netherlands made a press release regarding their support for Volvo Connected Load Out in the Netherlands. It's always fun seeing something products I've been developing getting into hands of dealers and customers.

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Connected Load Out is a cloud-based productivity service designed to improve the efficiency of the load out process in a quarry. The service is available for Volvo wheel loaders with Load Assist and On-Board Weighing or Volvo excavators with Dig Assist and On-Board Weighing.

Press release

Press release as a pdf

I'm proud to share that Volvo CE has introduced the software I've been working on in North America. Connected Map as a whole provides Volvo customers with real-time insights into vehicle utilization, location and material movement. It revolutionizes fleet management, improves productivity, and enhances project performance.

At Conexpo Volvo CE and Swecon introduced the tool I've been working on: Volvo CE Connected Load Out.

It has 3 main components:

• The Copilot screen which is integrated in the loader (usually a wheel loader or an excavator)
• A mobile app that the truck driver uses
• Site office for overview, administration and planning

From Conexpo (The mobile app on the left which is where most of my contribution is):

In short, it's all about moving material more efficient at querries. When you connect the loader, the truck driver and site office you know where the vehicles are and get better control on how to move material more efficiently. Great stuff really, and it will only get better.

How it works:

Connected Load Out connects and shares information digitally between loaders, site offices and trucks in one quarry. Load orders can be sent directly from incoming trucks via the Connected Load Out app to the loader's Volvo Co-Pilot. The loader driver can see an estimated arrival time and which material is to be loaded, which facilitates the planning of the work and reduces stress and the risk of errors. When the truck arrives at the workplace, the truck driver receives a notification in Volvo Co-Pilot and can summon the truck for loading and dispatch. A load receipt is created and sent to both the truck and the site office, so that the entire flow is visible in the Connected Load Out Office Portal.

Links:

• Volvo CE Press release: Connected load out to improve jobsite efficiency
• Swecon Press release: Volvo CE introducerar Connected Load Out för att öka effektiviteten på arbetsplatsen

I am doing software development for Volvo Construction Equipment and their Efficient Load Out product suite. Efficient Load Out is a digital solution which connects machine operators, truck drivers and site managers in real-time to maximize the profitability and sustainability of mass excavation projects. I have been working exclusively in native Swift programming handling low-level network communication between vehicles, and high-level GUI programming.

Our business concept is simple: we sell solutions for unmanned and cashless payments. Contactless means payments with Swish, payment card or access card. Unmanned can be anything between vending machines, rides, barriers, doors or an idea we haven't heard of before.

I'm mainly responsible for the payment system backend and making sure everything runs smoothly. Technologies include a tech-stack of C#, .net, Azure functions for the payment processing. Typescript and React is used for the frontend and customer facing aspects.