AFRICA'S FLEET INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM

The intelligence that makes African fleets profitable.

Stop guessing where your money goes. Sawa connects every vehicle, surfaces the cost of every kilometre, and turns raw movement into a measurable bottom line.

The Problem

Most African fleets are operating blind.

The data exists. The cost is real. But without intelligence, fleets can't act on either.

30–45% of operating cost

Fuel · downtime · driver behaviour, the three costs that quietly decide whether a fleet makes money.

Where the money leaks · per truck / month

Fuel burn & siphoningRWF 480K

Fuel is your single largest expense, and most of it leaks undetected through theft, waste, and inefficiency.

Unplanned breakdownsRWF 210K

Unplanned failures happen without warning, paralyzing operations and destroying revenue for days at a time.

Idling & route driftRWF 145K

Harsh driving accelerates wear, increases accident risk, and drives up insurance costs, all without accountability.

The root cause: fragmented, unusable data. Your data exists across devices, spreadsheets, and paper logs: siloed, unreliable, and impossible to act on.

This is a multi-billion-dollar structural inefficiency.
Sawa exists to eliminate it.

Why Sawa
Sawa Telematics is not a tracking company. It is Africa's fleet intelligence platform, the system that makes modern mobility economically viable.

Others sell you a dashboard. Sawa delivers financial outcomes. A GPS dot on a map doesn't lower your costs. Here are three things that do, and that commodity trackers structurally can't.

We sell outcomes, not tracking

Anyone can put a vehicle on a map. Sawa attributes every litre of fuel lost, flags the breakdown before it strands a truck, and tells you the true cost of every kilometre you run. The output isn't data. It's a lower operating cost.

Data that becomes financial value

Verified driving data unlocks what a tracker never could: insurance priced on how your drivers actually drive, fuel on credit tied to real mileage, and financing built on a record no spreadsheet can fake. Telematics is the wedge; the financial ecosystem is the payoff.

Built for African roads, not data-centre assumptions

Global platforms assume always-on connectivity. Sawa is built for the real continent: multi-network SIM fallback that switches carriers when one drops, and offline buffering that holds every data point through rural dead zones and border crossings, then syncs the moment you reconnect. Zero data loss, by design.

The Platform

One platform. Everything your fleet runs on.

The intelligence core that every other service is built on. One integrated product, not a menu of modules.

VEHICLES + HARDWARE NETWORK SAWA ENGINE CONSUMER MODULES Truck Bus Matatu Taxi Moto Car FITTED HARDWARE Sawa Box (core) Fuel Sensor Driver ID (RFID) Control Terminal Passenger Counter Info Panel Seat Sensor Roof Light Satellite Public / VPN SAWA TELEMATICS ENGINE IoT + AI powered · the brain CORE FEATURE RAIL Real-Time TrackingFuel Monitoring Driver BehaviorPredictive Maint. Digital LogbookRoute Optimize Operator Control RoomRealtime · Fuel · Driver Behaviour · Remote Control Analytics DashboardPerformance analytics · Reports · Archive Garage PortalPredictive maint. · Spare-parts stock · Records Fintech SuiteWallet · Fuel Card · Wages · Penalties · UBI · Financing Mobile Apps + APIsFleet · ETA · Rider Hailing · Taxi Owner · Fleet-Intel APIs

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Fintech Ecosystem

Telematics is the wedge. Financial services are the prize.

Every kilometre your fleet drives produces verified data: who drove, how they drove, how much fuel they burned, how far they went. Owning that data layer earns Sawa the right to offer financial products no tracker can match. Insurance priced on how your drivers actually drive. Fuel on credit, tied to real mileage. Pay and financing built on a record that can't be faked. The value compounds the longer your fleet stays on the platform.

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Traction

Proof, not promises.

The numbers behind Africa's fleet intelligence platform, and they compound every month.

3,000+

Connected Vehicles

and growing monthly

95%

Client Retention Rate

across all enterprise clients

10M+

Data Points Per Day

processed and analyzed

50+

Enterprise Clients

in Rwanda and growing

Trusted by leading organizations across Rwanda

Rwanda National Police
Rwanda National Police
Rwanda Defence Force
Rwanda Defence Force
Rwanda Investigation Bureau
Rwanda Investigation Bureau
Move Plus
Move Plus
Volkswagen Rwanda
Volkswagen Rwanda
Zamura Feeds
Zamura Feeds
STK
Safe Travel Kigali
TABS Logistics
TABS Logistics
KESI Investments Rwanda Ltd
KESI Investments Rwanda Ltd
KIMU Transport & Multiservices
KIMU Transport & Multiservices
Client Voices

What our clients say

"Coordinating a police fleet across 30 districts requires visibility we simply did not have before. Sawa gives us a tamper-proof record of every vehicle's movements, fuel consumption, and driver events — which means we can now produce audit-ready reports that meet our internal oversight requirements without days of manual reconciliation. Unauthorized vehicle use has dropped significantly since deployment."
VM

Vehicle Management Officer

Fleet Management Division, Rwanda National Police

"Long-haul cross-border freight is where fuel costs can make or break your margins. Before Sawa, we had no reliable way to verify what was consumed versus what was reported by drivers on multi-day hauls to Uganda and Tanzania. The fuel monitoring module caught discrepancies we had been absorbing for years. Within two months, the platform had paid for itself. The cross-border tracking alone gives us a level of route visibility we'd never had before."
FO

Fleet Operations Coordinator

Head of Fleet Operations, TABS Logistics

"We run a premium mobility service — which means our brand lives or dies on the quality of every ride. Driver behavior monitoring through Sawa lets us hold our drivers to a standard we can actually measure. We're tracking scores across speed, harsh braking, and route adherence, and we're using that data to coach and incentivize. Our customer satisfaction scores and our vehicle condition have both improved meaningfully since we integrated the platform."
TM

Transport Manager

Fleet & Driver Operations, Move Plus

Pricing

Flexible models for every fleet size

One platform, three ways to get started. All plans include onboarding support, local installation, and customer success.

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Subscription

$7–$20 /vehicle/month

Best for: Growing fleets wanting predictable costs

Predictable monthly SaaS fee with no large upfront capital requirement.

  • Real-time tracking & fuel monitoring
  • Driver behavior analytics
  • Predictive maintenance alerts
  • Mobile app access
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Leasing

Custom hardware + software bundled

Best for: Fleets without capital for hardware

Hardware and software in a single monthly payment with no upfront device cost.

  • All Subscription features
  • Hardware device included
  • Installation included
  • Dedicated account manager
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Licensing

Enterprise full platform license

Best for: Large enterprise or government

Full platform license for large enterprise or government fleets that need a dedicated private deployment and full data ownership.

  • Dedicated private-cloud or on-premise deployment
  • Full data sovereignty and ownership
  • Custom integrations
  • SLA guarantee
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