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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.

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.”

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.

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.”

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.

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.

A global leading electronic car manufacturer needed to guarantee a seamless connectivity experience for its fleet of 50,000 vehicles as they are driven throughout Europe.

Nowadays, drivers of company cars pay a given taxation in Germany for the use of the company vehicle, no matter if the vehicle is used for personal or professional purposes. Unless they are able to do a manual paperwork along the year, collecting all trips and making the differentiation between personal and professional they can not achieve any tax saving.