analysis of data from 15,000 idle vehicles in 2018 shows idling incidents can be attributed to the particularly harsh winter and a record-breaking hot summer.
For example, on the hottest day of the year in 2018 was July 26, when temperatures reached 35.3C in Kent. Airmax Remote’s analysis of its telematics data revealed that there were more than 10,000 incidents of idling problem, no doubt as a result of the extreme temperature and drivers using air-con when stationery to keep cool.
Read more: Driving behavior improvement with telematics
Similarly, when the temperature fell to -11.7 C at South Farnborough on February 28, there were more than 15,000 incidents of idling problem as drivers used climate control an effort to keep warm.
findings help support the idea that idling and wider issues of driver behavior can be addressed by fleet managers if they have the right tools.
source: Fleet news
Tata Technologies has entered into a Telematics partnership with FutureMove Automotive. A Chinese enterprise specializing in connected services. The companies together plan to develop comprehensive and unique connected mobility solutions for automotive manufacturers in China and worldwide. The companies signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at Auto Shanghai,which is the biggest auto fair of the South East Asia region.
The association plans to enable both the companies in order to complement their value offerings for the automotive industry and serve their customers better towards future mobility. Tata Technologies has capabilities in delivering end-to-end vehicle programs. Through the Telematics partnership agreement, the two companies aim to integrate technologies as well as products, solutions, and resources to respond to demands within the automotive industry. source: Telematics Wire
There are several fleet management system s available in the market. We will check the top five service providers and what makes each one of them different from others.
US Fleet Tracking:
The US fleet tracking or fleet management system takes pride as the most successful and trusted brand in the market.
Fleet GO:
GeoTab:
Director Fleet Software:
Fleet Maintenance Pro:
source: 5 the best tracking system
While many fleets focus on the ability of telematics to track vehicles and cut fuel costs, its importance as a tool to improve safety and driving behavior should not be overlooked. The data that technology can record and monitor such as speeding, harsh acceleration and braking can be key to identifying poor driver behavior.
Telematics data is effective in encouraging driving behavior change among drivers to improve fleet safety,” says Lisa Dorn, associate professor of driver behavior at Cranfield University. If they are not aware of the danger they are in, how can they be expected to change behavior? Telematics data is a good way for fleet managers to provide evidence to address the risk.”
Drivers can monitor their performance against elite driver status and can compete with other drivers,” says managing director Rupert Lyon Taylor. Rewards follow.
source: encourage behavior change with telematics
Omnitracs and red hat collaboration
DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Omnitracs, LLC, a global pioneer of fleet management solutions to transportation and logistics companies, today announced collaboration with Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, to further accelerate the development and next-generation capabilities of its Omnitracs 1 platform. With Red Hat’s domain expertise in open source, cloud-native solutions and Omnitracs’ proven history as a leader in commercial logistics technology, the companies are positioned to deliver a cloud-native solution that is designed to provide its customers with the security capabilities, flexibility, and scalability they need to reshape the way business is done today, while setting the pace for future industry innovation.
By using Red Hat technologies including Red Hat Open Shift Container Platform, Red Hat Anisile Tower, and expertise from Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, Omnitracs aims to expedite the development of new features.
The mentioned companies are focused on accelerating capabilities for the commercial transportation industry. Because of this collaboration, the companies plan to develop an open development ecosystem with unified management and reporting tools. By combining vertical-specific solutions, Omnitracs will provide its customers with a competitive advantage in a rapidly evolving marketplace.
Embracing digital transformation, from cloud-native technologies to DevOps, is a vital step for organizations across industries, especially as market demands, competitive pressures and customer needs evolve in complexity and scale,” said John Allessio, vice president, Global Services and Enablement, Red Hat. Omnitracs is helping to address these challenges by converting from being a traditional software company to a digital platform provider, built upon innovation within the Omni tracs One platform. Red Hat is pleased to bring our cloud-native solutions and open source expertise to bear as they help to advance commercial logistics through emerging technologies.”
source: onmnitracs and red hat
State Farm is expanding its Drive Safe and Save usage based insurance program to include cars equipped with Ford’s Sync telematics system.
Also known as pay as you go,” usage based insurance programs look at how many miles drivers put on their cars and calculate premiums accordingly. Drivers willing to share how many miles they have traveled could get discounts between 10 and 40 percent in exchange for providing the insurer with a more accurate picture of their vehicle-use habits.
Because usage based insurance, Sync’s Vehicle Health Report already keeps track of a car’s mileage, Sync-equipped vehicles from model years after 2009 are ready to report verified odometer readings to State Farm to calculate possible premium discounts. The insurer also offers Drive Safe and Save to drivers who have installed OnStar’s after market FMV mirror in their vehicles. In cars without compatible in-vehicle telematics systems, State Farm requires a driver to plug a data recorder into a car’s OBD II diagnostic port, which then sends mileage reports back to the insurance company. Also Read: Vodafone automotive telematics
For usage based insurance , Sync users, there is no additional cost to join Drive Safe and Save. Premium discounts are calculated every six months when policies are renewed. Though the program will be initially limited to Utah residents, Ford said it would be expanding to other states shortly thereafter.
SOURCE: FORD IN UBI MARKET
Vodafone Automotive Telematics which is the business unit supplying services and developing telematics infrastructur for the automotive industry as well as the insurance business. Vodafone Automotive Telematics designs telematics services also offers assistance in case of accident and vehicle theft, delivers services for the management of costs associated to vehicles and services based on driving behavior indicators.
The delivery requires a systems integration capability
Read More: Telematics services has been confirmed by Mercedes-Benz
finally, The business unit has direct operations in Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and in the UK. In Malaysia, Russia and South Africa has strong relationships with regional market leaders.
Source: Vodafone website
For now, Google is offering it to carmakers that use Android Automotive; the company has embedded operating system for cars. Google has named three partners for that system to date, but other automakers are reluctant to hand their dashboards over to the search giant. So Google is looking to expand the features on the mapping service and find other ways to distribute it, these people said.
These self-driving maps are far more demanding than older digital ones in Google map , prompting huge investments across Detroit, Silicon Valley and China. An autonomous vehicle wants that to be as precise, accurate and up-to-date as possible,” said Bryan Sale sky, who leads Argo AI LLC, a year-old startup backed by a $1 billion investment by Ford. The off-the-shelf solution doesn’t quite exist.”
source: google or new startups
Dolphin next-generation products will present VRP
The radical changes in network traffics are forcing the advancement in new technologies and innovations. Nearly every smart device such as GPS tracker just provide tracking, therefore some application, for instance, Waze and Google map offer route without smart device use. Also, the growth of new businesses via mobile internet and cloud computing are driving underlying physical device architecture to change to meet service requirement.
Dolphin has the plan to present software and hardware which are designed based on VRP (vehicle routing problem). In fact, with VRP technology in telematics, your fleet will be smart and you can improve fleet distribution and reduce company cost.If you want
more info, follow the news of Dolphin next-generation products.
The Dolphin temperature monitoring system is invented to help Bazar Gostar logistic managers in order to track the temperature of their trailers and protect temperature sensitive goods from perishing.
About 1000 vehicles of Iran diary industry are equipped. Additionally, more than 400 vehicles will be equipped until the end of June 2019 with Dolphin system. also it is important to note that the highest number of cars belongs to Isfahan, Rasht, Mashhad and Shiraz.
Regarding to Bazar Gostar managers comments Dolphin system reduces the cost of fleet and improves performance of drivers. with applying this worthy systems all the vehicle are completely controlled which set both drivers and managers mind at ease.
The VRP (vehicle routing problem) concerns the service of a delivery company.
How things and people are delivered from one or more depots which has a given set of home vehicles and operated by a set of drivers who can move on a given road network to a set of customers.
Vinaa Application is updated
Dolphin announced Vinaa 2.1 on 25 May. If you have this mobile App for managing every companies fleet, update Vinaa App to the last version.
On the Vinaa Application 2,1 users’ access to repair and maintenance module with services time announcement. All the issues of the previous version have been resolved in the Vinaa App 2,1. Furthermore, App speed is highly improved.
One of the applicable features which has been added to new version is standard CAN protocols of heavy vehicles and dedicated protocols of Mercedes Benz heavy vehicles.
and now is available on Google Play:
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