Moving Intelligence, a leader in secure asset tracking, responsible fleet management, and smart mobility, announces its partnership with Echoes, a recognized leader in next-generation vehicle data solutions.
The combined group will create an undisputed European leader in smart connected vehicle solutions, serving customers in 10 European countries with 500,000 connected assets expected by the end of the year.
Echoes provides fleet management and security solutions by connecting directly to the telematics units built into vehicles by OEMs, which are standard equipment in most new vehicles. This significantly reduces hardware and installation costs, downtime, and management and service costs for fleet operators. Echoes integrates with a wide range of new vehicles (over 90%) and its compatibility with OEMs continues to grow daily. The company is based in France and operates in Germany, the United Kingdom, Benelux, Italy, Spain, and the Nordic countries.
Advanced solutions just a click away
This landmark transaction anticipates strategic trends in connected mobility and is driven above all by one goal: giving customers access to simple, effective solutions at the click of a button. Together, Echoes and Moving Intelligence can provide a comprehensive range of advanced telematics solutions — safety, fleet management, non-motorized asset tracking, and sustainability — to a customer base spanning rental and leasing companies, dealerships, enterprises, and SMEs.
Scalability
We are extremely proud of our partnership with Echoes, the market leader in rapidly growing connected vehicle solutions. Echoes represents the future by allowing us to connect directly to the customer’s vehicle without installing any additional hardware. This expands our geographic reach, the scalability of our offering, and the services we can provide, while significantly reducing installation costs and downtime for customers. It’s a win-win proposition for our customers, and we’re already working hard to integrate Echoes’ features into our platform and vice versa.
Patrick Horst — CEO, Moving Intelligence
This partnership is perfect for our customers and partners: it adds high-quality security products to our portfolio while letting us benefit from a strong existing footprint in Europe, including local support and partnerships. OEM data and a certified device will offer our customers the best of both worlds.
Mathieu Chènebit — President, Echoes
Background and outlook
Both companies share a strong commitment to international growth and are already leaders in telematics solutions within their respective fields. By combining their expertise, they are ideally positioned to meet the current and future needs of their customers.
Going forward, both brands will continue to exist independently, with Moving Intelligence and Echoes operating autonomously. Customers will be able to continue using their trusted services and will, in time, have the opportunity to benefit from the services of both brands. For employees, there will be no significant changes, other than becoming part of a larger international organization, working closely together to deploy solutions to existing and potential customers.
About the two companies
MOVING INTELLIGENCE
A leader in vehicle tracking systems, Moving Intelligence has been developing the most innovative services in safety, trip logging, fleet management, and sustainable mobility for over 25 years. With more than 600 carefully selected resellers in four countries and 120 employees, the company remains at the forefront of the industry.
ECHOES
Founded in 2018 by Mathieu Chènebit, Echoes is headquartered in Toulon, with three offices in France and around 50 employees across Europe: DACH, Benelux, the Nordics, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
The company collects vehicle data without external hardware, providing a real-time view of fleets: location, maintenance, fuel, eco-driving, mileage, electric-vehicle status, accidents, and remote services.
Its flagship products, CarFleet (fleet management) and CarLocate (security and stolen-vehicle recovery), rely on data from the CarCollect OEM API and serve more than 200 customers in car rental, shared mobility, leasing, and corporate fleets.
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