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What is vehicle tracking?
Vehicle tracking can be used in a number of ways to help make your company's operations more streamlined and effective.
When managing a fleet of vehicles, knowing the real-time location of all drivers allows management to meet customer needs more efficiently. Whether it's delivery, service or one of many other enterprises utilizing transportation, drivers now only need a mobile phone with telephony or Internet connection to be inexpensively tracked by and dispatched efficiently.
Companies needing to track valuable assets for insurance or other monitoring purposes can now plot the real-time asset location on a map and closely monitor movement and operating status.
Companies with field service workforce for services such as repair or maintenance, must be able to plan field workers' time, schedule subsequent customer visits and be able to operate these departments efficiently. Vehicle tracking allows companies to quickly locate a field engineer and dispatch the closest one to meet a new customer request or provide site arrival information.
Mobile sales professionals can access real-time locations, For example, in unfamiliar areas, they can locate themselves as well as customers and prospects, get driving directions and add nearby last-minute appointments to itineraries. Benefits include increased productivity, reduced driving time and increased time spent with customers and prospects.
Cartage and logistics companies often operate trucks with detachable load cargo units. The part of the vehicle that drives the load is known as the cab and the cargo carrying unit is known as the trailer. There are different types of trailers used for different applications, i.e. flat bed, refrigerated, box container, etc... Generally speaking, when the term vehicle tracking is used, it refers to the scenarios outlined above. However, there are actually two distinct types of vehicle tracking;
This type of vehicle tracking is normally used in the fleet or driver management sector. The unit is configured to automatically transmit it's location at a set interval, i.e. every 5 minutes. The unit is sometimes activated when the ignition is switched on/off.
This type of system is primarily used in connection with vehicle or driver security solutions. If, for example a thief breaks into your car and attempts to steal it, the tracking system can be triggered by the motion sensor being activated. A monitoring bureau, will then be automatically notified that the unit has been activated and begin tracking the vehicle. Some products on the market are a hybrid of both AVL and EATS technology. However industry practice has tended to lean towards the separation of these functions. It is worth taking note that vehicle tracking products tend to fall in to one, not both of the technologies. AVL technology is predominately used when applying vehicle tracking to fleet or driver management solutions. The use of Automatic Vehicle Location is given in the following scenario; A car breaks down by the side of the road and the occupant calls a tow company. The tow company has several trucks in the area. Without needing to call each driver to find out their location the dispatcher can pinpoint the nearest tow truck and assign it the new job. If you were to incorporate the other aspects of vehicle telematics into this scenario; the dispatcher, rather than phoning the recovery vehicle operator, could transmit the job details directly to the operators mobile data terminal (MDT) EATS technology is predominately used when applying vehicle tracking to vehicle security solutions. AN example of this distinction is given in the following scenario; A construction company owns some pieces of plant machinery that are regularly left unattended, on weekends and/or at building sites. Thieves break onto one site and a piece of equipment, such as a back-hoe, is loaded onto a flatbed truck or trailer and then driven away. Typically the ignition wouldn't need to be turned on and as such most of the AVL products available won't typically be activated. Only products that included a unit that was activated by a motion sensor or Geo-Fence alarm event, would be activated. |
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