Speed to market is precious for DRVR, a rapidly growing start-up company. With a business model dependent on reliable mobile data, managers were spending their lives trying to negotiate data roaming deals with mobile network operators in different countries. And, even then, service quality was a constant concern.

Organizations frequently implement a maintenance strategy for their fleets of vehicles using a combination of time and usage based maintenance schedules. While effective as a whole, time and usage based schedules do not take into account driving patterns, environmental factors, and sensors currently deployed within the vehicle measuring crank voltage, ignition voltage, and acceleration, all of which have a significant influence on the overall health of the vehicle.In a typical fleet, a large percentage of road calls are related to electrical failure, with battery failure being a common cause. Battery failures result in unmet service agreement levels and costly re-adjustment of scheduled to provide replacement vehicles. To reduce the impact of unplanned maintenance, the transportation logistics company was interested in a trial of C3 Vehicle Fleet Analytics.

Zonar’s fleet management solutions collect, report and analyze data before, during and after a vehicle’s trip. The company needed Machine-to-Machine (M2M) connectivity to enable communication between in-vehicle devices and back-end systems. To deliver high volumes of potentially sensitive information from and to moving vehicles – and keep pace with its rapid business growth – Zonar wanted a highly secure solution that it could easily manage and that had the required national and global reach.

A major trucking company in Africa was looking for a solution to track and manage their fleet of vehicles. Tracking was essential to ensure that the trucks were being driven safely and on the most optimal route.

Davenport Energy was looking for a way to better track and manage their large, diverse fleet of vehicles by delivering real-time data and providing the ability to track, locate and manage their drivers while out in the field.

Honda Connect Services needed a way to ensure the best possible connected car experience for their customers.

The telematic solution provides this vital premium-adjusting information. The solution also helps detect and deter vehicle or trailer theft – as soon as a theft occurs, monitoring personnel can alert the appropriate authorities, providing an exact location.“With more and more insurance companies and major fleet operators interested in monitoring driver behaviour on the grounds of road safety, efficient logistics and costs, the market for this type of device and associated e-business services is growing rapidly within Italy and the rest of Europe,” says Franco.“The insurance companies are especially interested in the pay-per-use and pay-as-you-drive applications while other organisations employ the technology for road user charging.”“One million vehicles in Italy currently carry such devices and forecasts indicate that the European market will increase tenfold by 2014.However, for our technology to work effectively, we needed a highly reliable wireless data network to carry the information between the vehicles and monitoring stations.”

Leading landscaping firm serving central Illinois streamlines operations with Samsara’s real-time fleet tracking solution: • 30+ vehicle fleet includes International Terrastar dump trucks and flatbeds, medium- and light-duty pickups from Ford and Chevrolet. Winter fleet includes of snow plows and salters.

Applied Acoustics Easytrak Portable acoustic navigation system can undertake a wide range of tracking and positioning tasks for seabed mapping, towfish tracking and controlling robotic vehicles. It is also used to locate subsea divers, so is critical to the safety of personnel. To deal with difficult operating environment, a robust single board computer is required.

Despite keeping overseas Eurasia and Latin America growth on track as shown in Q4 2017 results, PSA group was faced with an internal R&D dilemma at its subsidiary Opel whilst its sales in China have dropped by almost half, to 387,000, all in the same year. Seeing that the Chinese passenger-car market on the other hand has surged nearly a quarter, from 19.7 million in 2014 to 24.7 million in 2017, PSA group saw the need to create increasingly connected vehicles to attract consumers with a strong appetite for 5G. The main challenge remains that PSA's product lineup still has overlapping and outdated models, including an earlier version of the Peugeot 3008 and several Citroen and DS models, all of which are sold only in China.

SmartRoute powered by Sirqul is a routing and optimization solution that enhances a fleet’s operational efficiency, enabling each vehicle and driver to maximize the amount of cargo they can pick up and deliver while minimizing miles, hours, and overall cost.

PBSC Urban provides municipalities throughout the world a bicycles-for-lease and an accompanying fleet management system. To pull off that feat, PBSC Urban needed a way to easily transmit essential data from their bicycles to the various bike station kiosks located throughout the cities they serve.

• To implement fleet tracking with industrial equipment and sensorsHow will you know when a pump on any of your trucks is on or off? Or how many RPMs your mobile pumps are running at? If you’ve got vacuums and/or tanks on your trucks then you want to know what the current status is, how they’ve been used, whether or not they’re due for maintenance, and other information available using Industrial IoT Sensor Solutions with Tools.Valarm.net.

Isotrak knows that the demands placed on delivery fleets are constantly evolving and customers require greater insight into fleet operations so it uses business intelligence data to provide retailers and manufacturers with a total vision of their transportation ecosystem. Expanding the capabilities of its real-time ATMSi fleet management system, Isotrak provides integrated supply chain solutions that access real-time data with robust alerting and reporting capabilities.With 25% of the world’s top food retailers using Isotrak products, Isotrak required quicker access to analytics for its IoT/M2M deployments – delivered with reliable reporting methods and at a low total cost of ownership.

In competitive markets, companies from couriers to cleaning services are always concerned with profitability and maintaining top performance. One key to keeping costs reasonable is managing their fleets of service vehicles to improve route planning, monitor dispatches, reduce fuel costs, and track maintenance. To accomplish all this, Transpoco created SynX, a fleet management and GPS vehicle tracking solution that helps companies to synchronize their fleet of vehicles with their drivers and their corporate targets. The system allows clients to massively reduce fuel costs and optimise time through a complete fleet monitoring system. The SynX product gives a complete view of fleet operations to any organization with a vehicle on the road. Transpoco focuses on collecting all the data generated by the fleet and connecting it together in one place. Its customers don’t have time to delve through spreadsheets and reports, so the SynX software helps them implement changes in their fleets as easily as possible. By integrating this data, SynX literally synchronizes every aspect from drivers to vehicles, from maintenance to safety, and optimises relationships within teams. To help its customers achieve improvements in performance, cost reduction, and overall peace of mind, Transpoco itself had to grow quickly with both product offerings and geographic reach. This required broader connectivity coverage and more complete Internet of Things tools so SynX could give complete insights into crucial fleet data for decision-making.

Airporter, a private sector airport transfer organisation, is implementing Masternaut’s fleet management solution to provide real-time vehicle tracking, increase passenger safety, and deliver fuel efficiency savings.

Day & Night wanted to alleviate customer concerns and provide service confirmation by answering these questions: Did Day & Night arrive when it said it would? How long did it take Day & Night to complete a certain job? At what speed did Day & Night drivers operate while at a certain site.

When you have up to 200 buses on the streets for 23 hours each day, it’s essential to constantly monitor your vehicles to ensure the highest levels of on-time performance and safety. For the Suburban Mobility Authority for Rapid Transit (SMART), that challenge was growing increasingly difficult as its automatic vehicle location (AVL) system aged. The AVL uses a radio network to create a two-way communication link between each vehicle and SMART’s operations center where dispatchers can monitor vehicle locations, schedule performance, and other metrics. “Our AVL was 20 years old,” explained Mel Evans, IT manager for SMART. “We were relying on a legacy analog radio network that used three leased towers and a slice of frequency that was being retired. While this infrastructure was satisfactory 20 years ago, it wasn’t keeping pace with SMART. We wanted more reporting and we wanted real-time information that we could share with our public ridership.” One option was to upgrade from analog to digital signals and increase the number of towers. Evans noted that this would be cost-prohibitive. “At approximately $1 million each, the upgrade strategy was too expensive for our agency,” he said. “It became clearer that we needed to consider a different strategy that involved an entirely new AVL solution.”

A multinational, knowledge-based corporation that delivers marine electronics solutions is utilizing industrial Ethernet technology to help ensure that operations at sea are dependable and optimal. Based in Europe, the company has nearly 4000 employees working in 20 countries around the world, and produces high-tech systems for offshore oil and gas operations, merchant marine systems, and various applications for the defense and aerospace industries. The company produces products and systems used by merchant vessels and offshore installations for positioning, navigation, automation, as well as for surveying and monitoring the seabed, and for fishing vessels and fi sheries research. As one of the major suppliers of high quality marine electronics in the world, their products include chart plotters for yachts, triple redundant dynamic positioning systems for oil drilling rigs, and sonar and instrument systems for scientifi c research vessels. Products used for marine applications must be rugged enough to endure the corrosive effects of salt water, and be able to withstand excessive amounts of vibration and shock. For this reason, the company only uses DNV and GL certified products and components to ensure that their systems can meet the high standards required by the maritime industry.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing the car insurance industry on a scale not seen since the introduction of the car itself. For decades, premiums have been calculated using proxy-based risk assessment models and historical data. Today, a growing number of innovative companies such as Quebec-based Industrielle Alliance are moving to usage-based insurance (UBI) models, driven by the advancement of telematics technologies and smart tracking devices.

Marzam, in order to ensure the best service, invested 3 million dollars in the construction of 2 fuel oil tanks with 40k gallons and 10k gallons capacity each, located in Manta, Ecuador. The customer needs to keep fleet operations going with fuel available at all times in order to guarantee quality of service. KEY ELEMENTS FOR THE CUSTOMER: Real-time level monitoring: Tank infrastructure remote level monitoring. Configure alerts and notifications when reaching critical values to avoid the need for emergency refills and optimize supply schedules. Real-time consumption monitoring: The customer needed an easy way to monitor in real-time accurate values of consumption.

Customers have very similar challenges nowadays. Cost saving is high on the agenda as is safety. Common themes under customers with Materials Handling Equipment are; how to make sure that they stay within contracted hours but not under use the equipment. Another point is out of contract cost caused by misuse of equipment. We from Hyster like to help our customers to find a solution that fits your organization. With Hyster Tracker we are able to track your trucks and help to save you money. General savings can be up to 20% spread across different parts of the business. For example with the digital operator checklists which saves time and reduces the paper hassle. Or with the rotation of equipment when we see underutilization in one place and over usage in another, based on the telemetry data.

The fulfillment of time schedules in each node is a key element of the Quality of Service and late delivery results in significant extra costs (second deliveries). Boyacá did not know the real time at which deliveries took place, they just had what was reported by the receiver and the carrier, and both were not necessarily coincident. To receive and handle this inaccurate information, they had in addition to make phone calls. When deliveries were done out of time, the company had no control over the point at which the delay had taken place and therefore could not manage to improve accuracy. In addition, the clients were unsatisfied and complained as they also lost sales due to late deliveries. The company needed to have direct real-time information of arrival and departure times at each one of the hubs of the distribution chain to control costs with the lowest possible investment in spite of the large number of vehicles involved (several hundred).

The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) provides public busing services across a 1,600-square mile service region serving 2 million residents' 80% of Utah's entire population. The organization wanted a secure, consistent mobile connectivity for its vehicles to support fare collection, mobile communications and other applications.

It is challenging to manage government assets overseas and related operations cost-effectively while providing superior service levels to end users. GSA wants to move from green screens to a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) for applications that support Federal Asset Management functions, without requiring extensive, time-consuming and costly changes.

TxDOT has deployed a system to alert truck drivers when they exceed the safe, posted speed limit on freeway ramps. The goal is to reduce the number of semi-truck rollovers that occur when truck drivers attempt to negotiate the ramps at unsafe speeds.Magdy Kozman, transportation operations engineer at TxDOT, says there was considerable trouble on tight interchange connector ramps around Houston. “There were high instances of trucks rolling over due to excessive speed, unknown cargo loading factors, and freeway super elevation problems,” Kozman says. TxDOT needed a non-intrusive solution because their previous loop system required a traffic control plan to close the ramp for installation. It also needed to get creative with methods of alerting drivers. “The flashing system was a challenge because no other similar application existed to our knowledge,” Kozman says.

Because of the scale of the facility and its reliance upon automated conveyor systems, technical information such as alarm or failure messages were dicult to dispatch to onsite staff who could not actively communicate with logistics and production engineers when outside the control room. This delayed response times and increase meant system downtime, often causing fresh produce to be wasted.

Certified Tracking Solutions (CTS) is using on the Internet of Things (IoT) to deliver industry-leading fleet management solutions to both commercial fleet operators and individual consumers. With tens of thousands of connected devices in the field, CTS relies on the Cisco Jasper platform to automate device management and provide customers with real-time intelligence on their devices’ performance and connectivity status.

Driving is a core part of Balfour Beatty’s business and managing risk on site and on the road is a high priority for the organisation.

Difficult to monitor the cold storage conditionHard to send out alarm/report for the temperature of perishable products timely