Key Benefits

• Reduce fuel costs through accurate identification of poor driving and vehicle economy
• Improve driver performance through balance score card
• League tables reduce fleet operating and maintenance costs
• Improve fleet life - create culture of accountability and professionalism through improved driving habits
• Optional real-time back office alerts for fuel siphoning or refuelling

Overview

As fleet operating costs continue to rise, influenced by major factors like increased fuel duty and taxation, the need for fleet managers to quickly and accurately identify poorly performing vehicles and drivers is paramount to the overall efficiency & effectiveness of any transport or distribution business.

Through the Microlise portfolio a number of solutions are available to capture and present this information to fleet and operations staff at all levels. The implementation of vehicle tracking provides visibility of vehicle movements along with distances travelled and time spent in different locations by drivers. Additionally GPS-based exceptions are available for vehicle idling, over-speeding and harsh acceleration / braking.

The Microlise Tracking Unit (MTU) also provides a number of optional peripheral plug and play add-ons to increase in-vehicle intelligence and provide additional layers of information to the back office. Peripherals such as door sensors, temperature monitoring devices, RFID Readers, in-cab displays and the FMS CANBus adapter are amongst those available.

The CANBus is a data network found on most commercial vehicles – it links the various electronic components found in modern vehicles. FMS (Fleet Management Systems) is a standard for the data transmitted on this network. This standard is accepted by; DAF, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, IVECO, MAN, Renault, Scania and Volvo. The Microlise Tracking Unit comes with an FMS CANBus interface as standard.

By plugging this peripheral into a vehicle with an FMS adaptor fitted, the Microlise Vehicle Tracking Unit can monitor a wide range of vehicle / engine management data in real-time.

This data can be used to monitor driving style and fuel flow, which in turn, can be used to both prompt the driver in real-time as to infringements, but also send the performance data back, via GPRS, to the Microlise host in order to generate various performance and driver league table reports.

By using this information to focus driver training and proactively manage any vehicle maintenance issues, the costs associated with poor driving behaviours and inefficient fleet performance can be significantly reduced.

Summary of Offering

Hardware – The Microlise Tracking Unit is equipped with all necessary connectivity for the FMS CANBus on the vehicle using a connector supplied by the Vehicle Manufacturer. In addition, Driver Identification can be added.

Onboard Business Rules – Configurable business rules on the Microlise Tracking Unit allow operations to capture the information deemed important for both real-time alerting and report analysis, and change this information as the needs of the operation changes.

Real-time alerts -

• Fuel siphoning
• Vehicle refuelling
• Any other events of real-time importance including harsh braking / acceleration 

Report Analysis -

• Overall fuel consumption by vehicle / driver / group
• Over-speeding urban / highway
• Fuel consumption
• Harsh braking and acceleration
• Engine idling (with and without power take off for operation of hoists, cranes, pumps etc.)
• Distance to next service
• Green torque band usage
• Cruise control usage for highway driving

Driver and Vehicle Performance Reports - Comprehensive reporting allows for balance score card league tables of vehicle and driver performance. Compare by individual or group for consumption and performance exceptions

Optional Module for Driver Feedback - provide real-time feedback to drivers of poor driving performance in the vehicle through the optional Driver Feedback module. This module adds realtime audible alerts to drivers when defined tolerances are exceeded for incidents such as acceleration, braking, and torque band exceptions.

Business Benefits

• Reduce fleet and fuel Costs – significant reduction in fuel costs through identification and publication of fuel siphoning incidents and targeted driver training based on quantitative and qualitative performance measures leading to reduced wear and tear and consequent maintenance costs.
• Reduce blameworthy accident claims – Through effective driver performance and driver training the number of incidents of blameworthy accidents can be significantly reduced giving more fleet availability and on-road hours.
• Improve driver empowerment and responsibility – provision of performance KPI’s for driver’s leads to a professional and motivated workforce who benefit from the improvements identified.