About Hivekit

Hivekit is a modern operations management platform that seamlessly integrates people, vehicles, equipment, and data into a comprehensive digital twin for work sites all the way to entire cities. From real-time operational insights to task automation, Hivekit transforms complex operations into streamlined and efficient workflows. Operators can visualize every process, monitor metrics, and assign tasks with precision, thanks to the intuitive application. Its advanced spatial rules engine helps customers to effortlessly automate operations, whether managing fleets, coordinating deliveries, or optimizing logistics. Trusted across sectors like mobility, agriculture, mining, and construction, the platform stands as an innovative force, driving efficiency and control through data-driven operations. With Hivekit industries can confidently embrace the future of automation and visibility, all within one unified platform.

Automating location awareness for sites and cities

From the start, Hivekit set out to create a map-centric platform with remarkable visualizations to enhance customers’ efficiency through automating processes for physical sites. A platform that could enable customers with a server that sends tasks to drivers or even commands to machines would lead to a huge boost in efficiency. However, the confidence in accuracy and reliability of these automation decisions was crucial for successful achievement of this ambitious goal. 

Instead of forcing customers into pre-built systems, Hivekit aimed to create a dependable and highly flexible platform, which would offer customers the freedom to customize workflows through integration hooks and configurable building blocks. Moreover, beyond traditional use cases like urban fleet management, Hivekit wanted to support industries such as e-commerce, farming, and construction, where scalability and topographical insights are essential.

The Hivekit team realized that they needed a robust and scalable mapping platform with advanced customization features in order to meet their complex visualization requirements and provide users with continuously evolving location insights.

Building the platform for managing operations with a flexible Mapbox toolkit

The combination of flexible, enterprise-grade solutions from Mapbox equip Hivekit to deliver impressive real-time location awareness to their diverse customers. 

Using Mapbox GL JS for web map rendering, Hivekit provides stable and accurate, real-time maps with sub-second updates. Mapbox Studio enables the Hivekit team to design custom map styles that are tailored to the unique needs of each client and industry, while Mapbox advanced 3D capabilities enable the unprecedented level of detail in 3D. Large-scale visualizations–from landscape level terrain and cityscapes down to staff, hardware, and vehicles–guarantee an interactive map experience with deep and clear insights.

By overlaying сustom data as layers on a map, Hivekit offers precise, comprehensive real-time location awareness. Mapbox layering architecture allows merging topographical data with 3D representations of vehicles, tasks, markers and routes, as well as to integrate complex visualizations, such as heatmaps and geospatial statistics directly into the map. Mapbox rendering efficiency ensures that all layers, such as the underlying base map, custom data, and 3D details load smoothly and seamlessly in a polished and informative map experience. Remarkably detailed visualizations help operators to monitor workflows, the density of resources, and workload distribution, allowing to make quick adjustments in real-time and enhancing allocation prioritization of tasks.

Mapbox adaptability across desktop, web, and mobile applications ensure a unified workflow. Hivekit browser app serves as a command center for operators, while mobile teams can easily access task assignments, route information, and real-time updates using smartphones.

Using the Mapbox Directions API, Hivekit platform enables drivers with routing, turn-by-turn directions, and allows calculating trip durations. That enables drivers and ground staff to track their location, communicate with operators, input data, and get metrics. Moreover, that allows to receive tasks and track their progress. In addition, the Mapbox Static Images API provides an efficient simple map image for displaying these tasks.

Fast and smooth integration in collaboration with Mapbox

Mapbox Documentation and examples provided Hivekit with extensive implementation options and diverse examples to support rapid development and smooth integration.

Scaling up with Mapbox location tools 

Hivekit is on a mission to help companies do more with their existing resources by bringing intelligent coordination and automation to the physical world. Enabling fast rendering of real-time data, scalable visualization solutions, and cross-platform consistency, Mapbox plays a core role in the Hivekit tech stack and its ability to scale to meet growing customer demand.