High-Volume Consumable Monitoring with Husqvarna Group

Contractors rely on diamond cores drill and blades for drilling and sawing, yet today they have low visibility into how, where, and how intensively these tools are used. Consumables can go missing between sites, wear out unexpectedly, or are simply not available where and when needed, leading to lost time and higher costs. At the same time, construction projects are becoming more data‑driven, with increasing pressure on productivity, traceability, and sustainability. Husqvarna Group wants to address these challenges by turning consumables into intelligent, connected assets.

We see an opportunity to build an end‑to‑end solution that brings intelligence to diamond tools and turns usage data into actionable insights for contractors. Today, these challenges are handled with manual tracking, experience‑based estimation, and fragmented digital tools. Instead of prescribing a single technical architecture, our vision is a flexible connected system where each tool and drill motor can be uniquely identified (e.g. via NFC, QR, RFID, or similar), and where smart, reusable sensing and communication solutions associated with tools and/or machines capture relevant data (e.g. RPM, load/usage profile, operating time, location). Data should be able to flow via suitable means to the cloud and into Husqvarna Group’s existing digital ecosystem.

Startups should be able to contribute key capabilities in smart hardware, data capture and connectivity, and/or software and analytics that solve these concrete use cases, with openness to different sensing locations (on‑tool, on‑machine, in‑line, etc.) and protocol choices, while remaining compatible with different possible hardware architectures and connectivity approaches.

For startups, this is an opportunity to co‑create and scale a new category of connected consumables together with a global industry leader. A successful solution can be replicated across multiple tool types, applications, and markets, enabling recurring revenue models around hardware, data, and digital services. Husqvarna Group brings deep domain expertise in diamond tools, drilling, and sawing, access to real end users and demanding field environments for pilots, an established digital ecosystem to integrate with, and industrialization and global go‑to‑market capabilities.