How Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles Streams 250,000+ Connected Vehicles with Condense®
VECV replaced generic streaming infrastructure with Condense, a Kafka-native, industry-optimized platform, gaining control, agility, and real-time scale.
TL;DR
Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicle (VECV), a leading Indian commercial vehicle OEM with 250,000+ connected vehicles migrated from a rigid, generic streaming platform to Condense, a Kafka-native, Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) real-time streaming platform optimized for mobility.
With Condense deployed inside their own cloud (GCP), they gained full control and data sovereignty, reduced cloud spend by 20%, cut dev and ops effort by 40%, and accelerated go-to-market by 6 months using verticalized mobility modules. Condense’s platform delivers scalable ingestion of 500+ telematics protocols, sub-500ms latency pipelines, built-in mobility logic (geofencing, driver scoring, trip intelligence), unified Git-based AI enabled inbuilt IDE for custom business logic development, and native observability, all without the burden of infrastructure management.
This transformation freed the OEM from cloud lock-in, simplified engineering, and enabled faster innovation at fleet scale, making Condense their backbone for real-time connected mobility applications.
Condense x Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles - Success Story
Executive Summary
Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicle (VECV), a leading commercial vehicle OEM was scaling fast, with over 250,000 connected vehicles and an increasing demand for real-time applications such as predictive maintenance, driver scoring, and route optimization. But their existing data infrastructure had become a bottleneck.
The incumbent platform offered limited flexibility, lacked domain specialization, and imposed operational complexity that slowed development and inflated cost. Kafka usage was growing but building, scaling, and maintaining custom microservices outside the pipeline introduced friction the OEM could no longer accept.
The OEM needed to rethink its foundation: move faster, operate leaner, and reclaim control.
Condense provided that foundation.
With a fully managed, Kafka-native platform deployed directly inside the OEM’s own cloud environment (BYOC), Condense delivered domain-optimized ingestion, built-in mobility logic, low-latency pipelines, and full operational abstraction. The result was a streaming system the OEM didn’t have to manage, yet could fully control.
Project Highlights
Migrated from a cloud-locked vendor to Condense Kafka-native BYOC model
Achieved full data sovereignty with zero infra lock-in
Reduced cloud spend by 20% through elastic resource scaling
Cut development and ops effort by 40%
Accelerated GTM by 6 months using Condense verticalized mobility modules
Enabled continuous, large-scale ingestion from 500+ telematics protocols
What was the Challenge?
As VECV’s connected vehicle program scaled, its existing data infrastructure began to constrain growth across multiple dimensions. The incumbent streaming platform was tightly coupled to a single cloud provider, limiting flexibility in deployment, inflating regional cloud costs, and making performance tuning nearly impossible. More critically, the platform lacked domain-native capabilities. Basic needs like parsing multi-protocol telematics payloads, evaluating geofences, or integrating with Fleet Management Systems (FMS) required building custom code from scratch, diverting focus from core mobility problems.
Development was further slowed by a fragmented model where application logic had to be managed as standalone microservices outside the core pipeline. This not only increased complexity and slowed time-to-market but also made scaling more difficult as vehicle volumes grew. Meanwhile, the platform lacked elastic scaling, forcing engineers to manually provision and balance resources during traffic bursts, resulting in either performance issues or overprovisioning waste.
Each of these limitations compounded into a broader issue:
The platform had become a barrier to innovation. Just as real-time applications like driver scoring, predictive maintenance, and dynamic routing were becoming critical, the underlying infrastructure was failing to support the pace and scale the OEM required.
About the Company
One of India’s largest commercial vehicle makers, VECV is known for its reliable trucks and buses across logistics and urban transport. It now also delivers connected mobility solutions to modernize fleet operations nationwide.
Location
India
Industry
Commercial Vehicles, Fleet Management
In a Nutshell
Industry: Commercial Vehicles & Connected Mobility
Fleet Size: 250,000+ vehicles
Previous Stack: Generic managed streaming platform
Deployment: Condense on OEM's cloud (GCP) using BYOC
Scale: 150+ TB/month processed, 120–500 Mbps dynamic throughput
Latency: Sub-500ms end-to-end of pipeline
Availability: 99.95% SLA
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The Architecture That Made It Possible
What the Team has to say about Condense
Condense provides a unified platform that truly simplified development of connected vehicle solution at VECV. Having one consistent environment makes it much easier for my team to develop, test, and launch features without the usual technical friction. Even debugging is faster because we aren't dealing with fragmented setups anymore. This approach, combined with the BYOC model, gives our operations team full data control while we scale. Zeliot’s deep understanding of automotive complexities was evident in how they delivered a platform tailored to our specific operational needs. We look forward to a long-term partnership as VECV leads the industry into a new era of agentic innovations
Ajay Mittal
GENERAL MANAGER - IT | VECV
What I truly appreciate about Condense is how it enables our engineering teams to achieve a much higher GTM velocity for new digital solutions. The platform has changed how we handle digital transformation at VECV because by offloading infrastructure complexities, our solution engineers can focus purely on innovation. This shift has significantly shortened our development cycles, allowing us to launch new features with remarkable speed. The BYOC advantage is equally critical as it ensures our operations team maintains 100% control over data privacy within our own environment. The strategic alignment, deep domain expertise and structured support made Condense a cornerstone of our long-term digital roadmap
Rajesh Mishra
EVP & CDO | VECV
What can teams build with Condense?
From ingestion to enrichment to action, Condense gives you the complete toolkit, fully managed, inside your infrastructure
No Code - Low Code Utilities
Full Observabilities
Marketplace Transforms
AI-Assisted Development IDE
Summing it up
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