Telematics Software

Customers Need Telematics Software With Total Interoperability

In what you might describe as taking the soft option, an increasing number of telematics clients are demanding fleet control software with total interoperability. They are no longer prepared to simply take whatever fleet management package is bundled with location-sensing and communications hardware. Instead those customers require telematics software which not only provides details of the whereabouts of vehicles, but also the ability to take a live traffic information feed, allowing strategic deployment of vehicles to a delivery or collection point, along with predictive timing schedules. But having achieved that level of control over their fleet of vehicles, they then require that all gathered data – vehicle running times and mileage, driver hours, meal breaks or overnight stops, fuel economy and whatever else might be deduced form the management software – is capable of being drawn off and fed into other software packages.

“We typically want to be able to put driver hours straight into our payroll package, and vehicle fuel costs into our vehicle management database” explained Ian Sandwell, fleet manager with Expedition Couriers. Sandwell is by no means alone in needing such interoperability – yet several major players persist in having stand-alone management software which controls their telematics systems. This requires manual extraction of relevant data, a process which can be sufficiently time-consuming to deter many would-be adopters of fleet management packages.

Thales, whose Orchid system provides the core of Ford of Europe’s recently-launched fordfleettelematics package, recognised some time ago that such interoperability was essential – gathered data can be quickly moved into any other software package running within the MSWindows operating system. Similarly Recall Group’s Steve Perham explained recently that integration of data to other programmes is vital: “In today’s marketplace, transfer of data is essential.”

Dennis Foy

 

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