Telematics now connects to AI clients
Trackunit launches IrisX MCP, connecting equipment intelligence to Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.
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| Trackunit has launched Trackunit IrisX MCP, a new capability built on Trackunit IrisX, its operating data platform for the construction industry. IrisX MCP makes equipment intelligence directly accessible through major AI clients such as Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, with no custom integration required. |
Trackunit has launched Trackunit IrisX MCP, a new capability built on Trackunit IrisX, its operating data platform for the construction industry. IrisX MCP makes equipment intelligence directly accessible through major AI clients such as Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, with no custom integration required.
Valuable construction data has long stayed locked in silos. With AI tools embedded in how teams work every day, the opportunity to act on that data has never been more immediate. IrisX MCP makes the connection, sources report.
"The challenge isn’t collecting construction data," says Fred Rio, senior vice president of product at Trackunit. “It’s making that intelligence easily available and actionable for the people who need it. IrisX MCP does that."
Unlike AI capabilities tied to a single application, IrisX MCP follows the open Model Context Protocol standard, so customers can use the AI tools that best fit their business, with no custom integration to build.
Teams can query their fleet in natural language to spot patterns across machines, connect a fault today to a warning logged months ago, and flag the assets most likely to fail next. In the same conversation, they can act on what they find, triggering alerts, updating records and automating multi-step tasks that once took hours, without logging into a dashboard.
For OEMs, it means every fault code across the installed base becomes product intelligence, further unlocking aftermarket opportunities. Warranty and engineering teams can ask which model variants generate a fault most often, and under what operating conditions, grounding design and aftermarket decisions in real-world field data rather than factory test cycles.
For rental companies, it means revenue stops leaking quietly. Branch teams can surface off-rent assets, machines used beyond contract hours and units degrading toward failure, then redeploy or service them before the cost lands at a customer site.
Tasks that teams used to perform weekly or monthly can now run continuously, with greater accuracy and at a fraction of the effort. IrisX MCP makes that possible by giving construction teams AI-native access to their equipment intelligence.
For one multinational fleet owner, reallocating machines across branches used to mean pulling reports, cleaning data and coordinating across depots over several days. With IrisX MCP, it took two minutes, sources report.
That speed is underpinned by the intelligence behind it. IrisX enriches more than 3 billion data points daily from construction equipment across more than 65 countries, structured and harmonized specifically for construction. Customers control exactly what the AI can see and do, with access revocable at any time.
“Trackunit is committed to helping customers turn their connected equipment data into the applications, insights and automations they need, without locking them into a closed ecosystem,” says Rio. “With IrisX MCP, we’re giving customers greater flexibility to connect data, intelligence and tools in the ways that create the most value for their business.”
IrisX MCP is available now to all Trackunit IrisX customers.
Learn more: https://trackunit.com/irisx
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