Telco Magazine January 2026 | Page 74

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How fleet managers use AI to automate reports and get instant data – Geotab Ace

“ The largest and most impressive fleets in the world – Pepsi, Amazon, UPS and the like – run on telematics. And if their telematics is down, they simply don’ t run”

Neil Cawse, Founder and CEO, Geotab models ingest the aggregated telemetry to generate predictive insights.“ Data is the food of AI,” Neil notes.
The industry is currently facing a surge in capital expenditure for AI processing. Neil distinguishes between the market valuation of these technologies and their engineering utility.“ There’ s an incredible amount of overspending globally on AI infrastructure, on energy, on data centres and on hardware,” he observes.
However, he affirms the technical validity of the shift.“ But none of this means AI isn’ t real. It’ s absolutely transformative.”
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