Last year, we were excited to announce that Tata Motors – the world’s fifth largest manufacturer of heavy goods vehicles – had become Microlise’s latest OEM partner. The deal also represented our first move into the Indian market.
Since that time, we have been working closely with our colleagues at Tata Motors to develop the next generation of Tata FleetMan, which will see advanced telematics and fleet management solutions brought to the Indian market for the first time. This week a milestone was reached!
At the Tata Motors Jamshedpur plant, the first production vehicle – a PRIMA LX 4023.S tractor – fitted with Microlise hardware, rolled off the line. Members of the Microlise project team, Nish Patel and Aleksandar Opacic, were on site to witness the event.
Approximately forty Microlise equipped vehicles were produced in the last week – the first of many!
Some of the features introduced to the Indian market through Tata Fleetman include:
- Emergency SOS: A panic button will be provided in vehicles through which the driver can send an SOS message to the transport owner in an emergency.
- Trip Management: A versatile tool to track and evaluate individual vehicle trips in real time. Trip Management helps achieve significant improvements in fleet utilisation and reduction in communication costs and idle times.
- Driving Assessment: Since drivers are the most important resource factor of transport operations, the driving assessment solution continuously evaluates drivers on a range of parameters impacting safety and economy. Suitable consultancy and retraining is then employed to improve overall fleet economy and safety record.
- Vehicle health management: A solution which helps remotely monitor vehicle health, including quick fault detection and rectification before it can lead to consequential failures.
To learn more about the partnership, please watch this video produced by Tata Motors as part of the announcement of the deal.
