About the Company

Hyundai Construction Equipment is a subsidiary of Hyundai Heavy Industries Group that began its heavy machinery business in 1985 and is a comprehensive construction equipment specialist that manufactures various construction equipment and industrial vehicles.
It operates a dealer network of 540 dealers in 140 countries and produces approximately 50,000 construction equipment and industrial vehicles annually.
Hi MATE is a comprehensive construction equipment management system that Hyundai Construction Equipment developed in-house in 2008.

The Challenge

Combining smart manufacturing and services
Hyundai Construction Equipment was seeking ways to overcome the limitations of traditional services in response to customer expectations and changes in the digital environment through the Hi MATE service that it has been developing and operating since 2008. After migrating infrastructure to the Cloud, the company considered evolving to a Cloud-native environment to manage IoT terminal devices, improve the convenience of IoT data usage, establish a data-driven business culture, and advance smart services.

Amazon Web Services

The evolution of the Hi MATE service begins with construction equipment, or devices.
With increasing product demand, the connection environment for construction equipment for stable service and global business expansion was able to create a stable operating environment using AWS IoT Core, a fully managed service.

AWS IoT Greengrass is key to the smartification of construction equipment.
Device sensors are increasing, and it is easy to transmit sensor data to the Cloud even in unstable communication environments at construction sites. In particular, the ability to independently perform AI/ML linked with the Cloud in a local environment enabled easy and fast implementation of construction equipment intelligence. The data collected from IoT is connected through Amazon SQS, Lambda, Kinesis, and S3 to a Datalake, and through the construction of a DataMart using AWS Glue and BI Tools, all real-time equipment data can be visualized and utilized in operations.

Hyundai Construction Equipment performed platform re-architecting in the AWS environment to support existing connected devices of Hi MATE and devices utilizing Greengrass with the help of MegazoneCloud and
AWS Korea, and commercialized it.

The Benefits

In the process of evolving into a smart products and services company, Hyundai Construction Equipment adopted Cloud to respond to customer expectations and the pace of digital environmental change beyond traditional sales and product warranty services. Through this, development speed was accelerated and flexible IT resource operations minimized resource constraints. Cloud also provided improved collaboration environment effects, with improved collaboration speed and scope with partners. Through this, the company was able to bring planned smart construction equipment to market more than 6 months ahead of schedule, establishing a foundation to lead the market, and was able to meet security regulations necessary for global business expansion.