By Teletrac Navman
Every minute of every day, our fleets are generating data, but without the ability to turn that data into actionable insights, it’s just useless gibberish. In fact, according to a McKinsey study, data-driven organisations are 23 times more likely to acquire customers, six times more likely to retain customers and 19 times more likely to be profitable.
The question for fleet managers, then, is how can the data our operations generate be used to get the insights we need to service customers better and improve safety and efficiency?
The answer is to create a connected fleet using telematics and a fleet management solution such as Teletrac Navman’s TN360. The vehicles you manage are already brimming with sensors – telematics and TN360 takes those feeds and turns it into actionable information, right at your fingertips.
Simplify – while adding depth
The key to turning data into actionable insights is Teletrac Navman’s artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, built right into TN360. You no longer need to pull multiple reports, join multiple spreadsheets, and filter data to find out what’s really happening with your fleet – the AI surfaces important information and presents it in an easy-to-understand format.
A driver who is speeding, for example, will generate an alert, as will a vehicle that’s gone outside a geofence, or incidents like harsh braking or manoeuvring. As a fleet manager, you can then use this scorecard information to act, including coaching the driver for better performance using actual performance metrics.
The AI capabilities built into TN360 let you ask natural language questions, making the process of understanding your fleet, how it’s being used, and how drivers are behaving, so much easier. Paired with vehicle maintenance, no more pulling reports or going through paperwork after the fact and then having to use specialised analytics to understand what’s going on. Analytics and schedules are there for you, saving you time and effort, and lowering your fleet management costs.
TN360 will help you to identify abnormal patterns across your fleet, providing this information in easy to digest dashboards, that you can further customise. Fuel use, idle time, location and more are presented in an easy-to-understand dashboard, allowing fleet managers to do more with their day and focus on the important tasks, rather than getting bogged down.
Once you let TN360 transform your business, you can automate your fleet management, increasing efficiency and boosting the bottom line.
More than just vehicle data
TN360 offers more than just data on your vehicle. Using General Purpose Input Output (GPIO), the overall connectivity of the vehicle via its ancillary sensors and equipment can also be monitored, with the resulting feed generating real-time alerts on a mobile device and via the TN360 dashboard.
GPIO can gather data from equipment like tail lifts, hook loaders, pumps, cranes and more, feeding them into the telematics system so fleet managers have an overall picture of how their vehicles are being used in the field.
Equipment powered by the PTO is also accurately labelled, rather than just indicating “PTO” in the TN360 dashboard, allowing you to identify when something connected to the vehicle is being used, along with when, where and how. Each event is time and location stamped and can be viewed within a report and set to trigger a custom alert. By knowing when ancillary actions take place, you’re able to measure productivity and ensure compliance with company policy.
We’ve seen many examples of fleet managers using GPIO in the real world, ranging from compliance to customer service, including being used to trigger exception alerts when a fuel tanker pump is activated off a designated site. This provides visibility into activities that potentially break company policy, create a safety risk, or could signal a potential theft of fuel.
GPIO can also be used to help measure fuel use within auxiliary equipment, helping to improve efficiency and reduce cost, along with measuring PTO events alongside engine idling. This provides visibility into legitimate engine idling by showing the vehicle was idle due to the PTO being engaged.
Connectivity – your key to efficiency, safety and profitability
Using telematics and TN360 has provided our customers with tangible benefits for their operations. Jarratt Transport Solutions, based in the Port of Brisbane, Queensland, uses Teletrac Navman’s telematics, electronic work diaries and TN360 to improve efficiency, safety and driver behaviour.
By coaching its drivers in smoother, safer vehicle operation, JTS estimates it saves around 3000 litres of fuel per month. It also uses a driver scoreboard measuring their behaviour, and the driver who tops the scoreboard earns a $500 bonus at the end of every month, something which the company’s management says is significant for the winning driver, but a drop in the ocean compared to what the company saves.
Connectivity, using telematics and AI-enabled systems is the key to simplifying the job of fleet managers and making their operations safer and more efficient.
