TELEMATICS Mike McGee, MS, CSP Director of Risk and Safety Horizon Services Group LLC
DEFINITION: Telematics is a general term that refers to any device which merges telecommunications and infomatics. Telematics includes anything from GPS systems to navigation systems.
HOW IT WORKS: A fleet tracking system makes use of location technology in the vehicles being tracked and software programs that gather the data from these automatic vehicle location devices to help you pinpoint its whereabouts.
Components of fleet tracking systems : 1. The tracking device. 2. The tracking server 3. The user interface
THE TRACKING DEVICE This is the GPS-equipped device that is fitted into your trucks, cars and other vehicles. The device captures the location and time from your vehicles and relays it to the central server. In addition to location and speed, these devices track include the amount of fuel you have, the temperature of your engine, geocoding, the altitude, tire pressure, headlight and taillight status, ignition, battery status and the number of GPS satellites that are open to it, the emergency button status, idling information, the RPM of the engine, and the GPRS status, and other information.
THE TRACKING SERVER This receives and stores the data being transmitted by your tracking device. The server serves up the information that the user wants. This is often cloud based and hosted by the service provider
THE USER INTERFACE This is what fleet managers see. They work with the user interface in order to access the information stored in the server and generate reports easily.
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