Telematics helping you stay in control of your fleet
Telematics is now transforming how companies and organizations operate their fleets. Fleet owners can now monitor their entire fleet of vehicles, and have access to a dashboard with real-time updates directly from a computer, regardless of their location.
With the insights and data received from telematics, fleet owners can put in place proactive solutions that help maintain vehicle performance, increase fleet safety and improve operational efficiency.
What is telematics?
Telematics is a method of monitoring vehicles and other assets, by transmitting data in real time back to an organization. These telematics devices installed inside the vehicles, can help businesses communicate fleet vehicle location, driver behavior, compliance , vehicle health and engine diagnostics etc
Fleet managers can now have increased oversight of their drivers and vehicles, which could lead to a decrease in accidents and violations, thereby creating better driving habits on the road.
How does telematics work ?
A telematics device is installed and hard-wired into the vehicle. It connects via the vehicle’s own onboard diagnostics (ODBII) or CAN-BUS port with a SIM card. Then, the device collects key performance data about the assets and automatically transmits the information to a platform that easily interprets and analyzes the data.
Benefits of Telematics
Reduce fuel and operating costs
Telematics can help you optimize your routes, which can reduce fuel usage and other expenses. Monitor when drivers are exceeding posted speed limits, receive alerts when a truck is idling for too long and get alerts when vehicles are due for maintenance based on date. This data collected can be used as part of driver training.
Improve driver and vehicle safety
With a vehicle telematics system, it’s possible to track driver behavior in real-time so unsafe behavior can be identified and discouraged while good drivers are rewarded. This can help to reduce risks so drivers, vehicle assets, and products arrive safely and on time.
Monitor Driver performance
Every movement of the driver, including how fast the vehicle is going, acceleration rate, braking time and other factors are being measured. This helps in evaluating the driver with the standard requirements of the company. Based on the result, the driver is rewarded if he is performing well or counseled if he lacks in some aspects. Finally, this helps in improving the performance of the company as certainly, the drivers are considered the backbone.
Optimizing Vehicle Performance
Making sure that the vehicle is well maintained and is subject to regular checks and refurbishments subsequently improves the vehicle performance. Saving unnecessary expenditure by optimizing routing and fuel consumption also leads to an optimized performance delivered by the fleet.
Compliance and Regulations
Telematics provides the needful support to help fleet management, which is a wide-spread industry, to be in real-time contact and thus work accordingly. Thus, compliance is maintained with the aid of this technology.
