GEOTAB: Management by Measurement

Geotab new OBD tracker lets you take real steps in improving the safety of your fleet, letting you cut down on risk and potentially even save lives!

• Posted vs Actual Speed: Compare your drivers’ speeds with the posted speed limits of city roads, motorways, and country lanes. Geotab lets you observe differences in driver behaviour depending on the environment they are driving in.
• Our forward-facing cameras combine high-definition video integrated with the Geotab telematics solution. Using a state-of-the-art integrated 3G vehicle camera and tracking system, we have created a solution that will help protect your fleet against false driving allegations, complaints from the public, high claims costs and increasing insurance premiums. We provide a web-enabled interface that allows access to video data received in the event of an alert either triggered through Geotab or a panic button located on the HD camera.
• Instant accident notifications: Geotab’s second-by-second data allows you to make timely decisions in the event of an accident. Accident reconstruction is automatically uploaded to the cloud, which allows you to look at how the accident happened and make decisions for the immediate future and for on-going operations.
• Insurance benefits: Insurance companies often seek out ‘preventable claims’. The improvements in safety conditions that Geotab offers allows you to reduce the possibility of personal injury and, as such, the claims that come with it.

Risk and safety scores are assigned to each driver and are based on a series of factors. These are:

• Speeding
• Seatbelt usage
• Braking habits
• Degree of corner turn
• Acceleration
• After-hours vehicle usage

These unique driver safety scores allow you to define areas in which your fleet is performing safely, and which areas require improvement.

Geotab lets you manage your company’s trips from anywhere, in real time. In-depth data from your fleet lets you increase your business’ productivity!

Geotab’s incredible tracking system allows you to see each and every detail of your drivers’ performance and behaviour, in real time. This allows you to highlight behaviours that fall outside of company policy and manage the problem accordingly. Geotab lets you recreate your employees’ trips at any time, letting you see the time of departure, time of arrival and everything in-between.

Some further benefits to productivity include:

• Custom Rules: With Geotab’s software component, MyGeotab, you’re able to fully customise how your data is presented to you. This lets you create custom rules and reports tailored to your fleets’ specific needs.
• Send routes and view driver statuses: Geotab lets you truly simplify the way that you communicate with your drivers. Route information can be easily sent to drivers, and drivers can set their statuses depending on whether or not they’re on a job.
• Match a driver to a vehicle: NFC technology allows you to see which driver is in which vehicle. This lets you keep track of each drivers’ productivity and safety, regardless of which vehicle they’re driving.

Fleet and fuel efficiency data from Geotab helps you achieve better value for money!

• Vehicle Maintenance: Geotab lets you know the health of your vehicles, allowing you to conduct maintenance before a costly breakdown. You can prioritise vehicles that are more in need of service over others.
• Fuel Usage: Whether its fuel usage or fuel fill-ups, Geotab keeps track of it all! This helps you to identify and cut back on unproductive miles that are causing fuel wastage.
• A Proactive Stance: Vehicle repairs are costly; especially when you’re managing an entire fleet. Geotab offers GPS and accelerometre data to allow you to cut back on driver behaviour that negatively affects brakes and tires.

Fuel and fleet optimisation allows you to manage the following, often costly, factors: 

• Choosing shorter routes.
• Vehicle speed.
• Time spent idling.
• Fuel cards.
• Vehicle maintenance and health.

Geotab has you covered in all aspects of meeting compliance!

As the owner of a fleet of heavy vehicles, there are a lot of standards and compliances you must consider. Fortunately, Geotab makes complying to regulations easy! As an American company, Geotab’s information mostly concerns American ELD compliance regulations, however, its focus on fleet compliance management makes it perfect for regulations in the UK as well.

Under the American ELD compliance, commercial vehicles are required to have a logging device on-board in order to accurately record a driver’s Record of Duty Status. While this bill was enacted in 2012, fleets had until December 2017 to implement it. The overall point of the bill is to ensure that an employees hours of service are accurately noted to ensure proper pay and to ensure that drivers weren’t overtired and at risk of falling asleep at the wheel.

In the UK, Geotab’s steps towards ELD compliance still offer your business the following benefits: 

• The opportunity to cut down on paperwork, which saves you time and money.
• Reduction of administration costs.
• Increased efficiency of record keeping and inspections.
• Real-time access to driver information.
• Minimisation of violations, prevention of accidents and even saved lives.
• Up-to-date logbook information at your fingertips.
• Improved safety ratings across the board.

Let Geotab help you to expand your business!

Using Geotab telematics for your business and using the rich data that’s available is an ideal way to set a long-term goal for business growth. Using the data you collect to better connect your business model to your business’ day-to-day running is key in the overall expansion of your business.

Geotab Marketplace 

The Geotab marketplace is your first port of call for expanding your business’ telematics. If you’re interested in expanding your business’ data collection strategy, visit the marketplace today!

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For simple guides to using Geotab’s software and hardware solutions, take a look at some of these instructional videos:

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Mobileye is a one-time expense and integrates seamlessly into the Geotab system. The data is easily exported to the Geotab system enabling enhanced visibility of the fleet, as well as greater insight into driving behaviour.

The products also detect roadway markings such as lanes, road boundaries, barriers and similar items, as well as identify and read traffic signs and traffic lights. Mobileye is fully intergraded with Geotab vehicle tracking system.
Mobileye’s unique capability in this area is having all the object detection algorithms conducted by a monocular camera configuration, thereby reducing cost and simplifying tooling and packaging of the camera sensor device.

Mobileye’s EyeQ chip and algorithms have been integrated into new car models since 2007 and there are currently approximately 3.3 million vehicles worldwide using Mobileye technology (as of March 2014).

Having a Mobileye collision avoidance system with intelligent vision sensors gives drivers an extra eye on the road – one that is always focused. It identifies potential threats in a driver’s path – cyclists, pedestrians, other vehicles – and continuously measures their distance and relative speeds to calculate the risk of a collision. Mobileye solutions understand when risks become seriously dangerous and can alert drivers in time to avert a possible disaster.

Mobileye helps to combat distraction and fatigue-related issues. It detects lane markings to notify drivers when they veer out of lane, and reads speed limit signs to remind drivers to stay within the speed limit. When imminent danger is detected, the system provides real-time visual and audible alerts to keep everyone safe.