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Data can significantly enhance your ability to analyze fleet operations and make informed decisions. In fact, fleet telematics is proven to help find gaps and inefficiencies in your fleet that, when addressed, can enhance productivity, resulting in reduced fleet risks and related costs, increased revenue, and boosted client satisfaction.
Fleet telematics is data-gathering technology used to extract and centralize data points for analysis and decision-making. Connected fleets continuously create and transmit telematics data, streamlining the flow of information and helping to improve fleet performance, cost and safety.
Put simply, telematics allows remote management of fleet assets. Telematics fleet management provides an analytical landscape to more easily identify measurable opportunities to progress and achieve business objectives including:
Fleet vehicle location,
Fuel usage,
Maintenance,
Driver behavior that could impact safety and more.
Increased visibility from fleet telematics data offers you the capability to establish operational key performance indicators (KPIs) critical to improving your business.
Identify and implement guidelines for drivers that define productive vs. non-productive stops and routes during the workday
When you look at the holistic picture and place accountability with your drivers, your fleet will see tremendous and impactful improvements.
Our client was able to increase productivity by strategically using geofencing.
This technology is integral to fleet telematics. It uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to create virtual boundaries around specific locations.
When a vehicle enters or exits geofenced areas, the software triggers alerts to mobile devices or computers. This capability enhances operational efficiency by ensuring vehicles adhere to their routes and schedules.
There are two primary methods to set up boundaries around an enclosure, by drawing a shape around an area that is a “point of interest”. This could be a repair shop, parking lot, depot or land parcel. An event or time stamp will be triggered once a vehicle that enters its parameters.
Circle:
Defines a radius around points of interest
Best used for: A quick method to set up non-specific points of interest that do not risk overlapping. In fact, our client referenced in the case study used circle geofences for their simplicity.
Polygon mapping:
Defines the single-sided shape points of interest
Benefit: you can specifically define parameters when you stack them side-by-side and clearly see when a vehicle is at a specific location.
One of the most recent enhancements to fleet telematics is geofencing. Geofencing involves creating virtual boundaries around specific locations.
These can be used in the following:
Internal Points of interest: Stocking garages, warehouses, and stores can be checked to find efficiencies and refine operations.
Customer locations: Analyze the time spent at customer appointments to better understand service delivery and identify areas for improvement.
Fleet supplier network: Track interactions with suppliers to streamline processes to reduce unnecessary delays.
Once telematics data is used to get improvements and results, it is vital to keep a strong grasp on fleet performance.
Changes to business operations and goals, seasonal fluctuations common for your business, and company changes such as fleet rightsizing and growth could impact performance. Proactively planning for shifts such as these and upholding policies can increase or keep your fleet productivity consistent, depending on your desired outcome.
Fleet vehicle policy implementation Productivity-related policies provide fleet drivers with guidelines and standards that are needed to achieve fleet operational KPIs as identified in baseline exploration. Policies help set expectations, hold drivers accountable, and, through connected fleet solutions, track and act on fleet policy compliance.
Administration and enforcement to keep fleet policy compliance Equally important to having fleet policies and procedures is ensuring that guidelines are clearly communicated to your drivers and that they are understood and enforced.
Fleet point of interest management We’re here to advise you on the best optimization plan and how you can leverage connected solutions data to inform your strategy.
Improved productivity can have a trickle-down effect that can positively affect many areas of your fleet and business.
POI optimizations contribute to maximized revenue-generating tasks and improves maintenance downtime.
Driver behavior data can enhance fleet safety and reduce collision costs, and data collected through telematics technology make for more efficient policy enforcement conversations by clearly showing areas that need improvement.
If you’re ready to complete more jobs in fewer hours and kilometers /miles and gain visibility into vehicle location and route analytics, contact Element’s experts today to discover the connected fleet solution that’s right for you.
A security industry fleet with over 4,300 units was experiencing substantial service ticket backlogs.
Once partnering with us, our client:
Gained visibility into how their technicians were spending their days.
Understood how to improve their productivity and revenue.
Through a customized management dashboard, we helped set expectations with our client’s drivers about how real-time data is used and gained a robust baseline understanding of driver behavior and route inefficiencies. This information amplifies which opportunities need to be prioritized to improve the overall functions of the fleet.
Complete point of interest (POI) analysis to clearly understand driver habits:
Start, end, and travel times for each technician and
Number, length, and types of stops they made during the day
Establish geofences, or virtual boundaries, to pinpoint and correct unnecessary stops and routes
Enhanced fleet telematics delivers fleet operations improvements
325,400 hours of total productivity gained per year