Contextual Speeding arrives!

Posted on 06. Dec, 2009 by Alex in Product

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The TaxPayers’ Alliance stated in May 2009 that drivers have been hit for almost a billion pounds in speeding fines in the last decade, with at least two tickets handed out every minute. How many SP30’s are you paying for?

Traditionally, the limitation with reporting speeding events in Tracking & Telematics solutions is that speeding was reported against a single arbitrary speed limit value – for example 56mph for a HGV.

As such, many systems only report when a truck has been speeding on a motorway, but what about when that same truck might have been driving at excessive speed in an urban area where the speed limit might be 20 or 30 mph?

Consequently, Microlise has introduced a new Contextual Speeding module to its Fleet & Distribution portfolio.

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