Intangles announced a new feature to its product suite that informs fleets on the quality of diesel particulate filter (DPF) regeneration at the American Trucking Associations Technology Maintenance Council’s Annual Meeting and Transportation Technology Exhibition.
Intangles’ DPF solution:
● Monitors and measures the percentage of soot in a vehicle’s DPF in real-time;
● Informs the user of the quality of each DPF regeneration;
● Provides insights on the impact of inefficient regeneration;
● Guides users on how to optimize forced DPF regeneration; and
● Reports fuel efficiency and engine performance.
The Intangles solution also predicts future performance of the system based on environmental and vehicle specific conditions, the company explained during the press conference. The DPF solution is built using Intangles’ proprietary hardware, adaptive algorithms and scalable cloud infrastructure.
Intangles leverages Digital Twin technology to create a virtual replica of a vehicle’s DPF in the cloud. Once a replica is created, Intangles can test how the virtual DPF will perform under varying conditions such as extreme cold weather, periods of prolonged idling, or stop/start driving situations, which can be particularly hard on DPF clogging.
“We currently cover over 2,000 engine configurations and are adding more daily,” said Craig Vanderheide, director, product management, Intangles. “Our hardware can be installed alongside any existing telematics device.”
The Intangles DPF solution is an advanced prognostic, which is now available on Intangles’ predictive maintenance platform and is part of a larger suite of vehicle health tools designed to detect issues with vehicles well before a diagnostic trouble code is triggered. In addition, the Intangles platform offers fleets a full suite, including real-time alerts, critical diagnostic trouble codes with severity and repair strategies, precise fuel analysis tools, driver behavior monitoring solutions, vehicle tracking, and fleet performance tools.
