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Parts & Services by Uniqco - The Power of GPS Systems in Fleet Management

I think the world of telematics is one of the smartest fields in practical science.

Translated from geek-speak, telematics is the branch of information technology which deals with the long-distance transmission of computerized information.

Telematics help make aeroplanes – especially big commercial airliners – safe to fly.

Formula 1 teams use telematics to optimise car performance.

And they can be one of the most helpful tools for any fleet operator.

In simple terms, telematics can put a live dashboard from a moving, working machine onto a computer screen far away from where the action is happening.

Yes, you can already imagine the benefits.

If you think about the number of company-owned vehicles on the road at any one time – line-haul trucks, delivery vans, even salary-packaged company cars – the ability to know where they are how they’re being operated is important.

The benefits of GPS systems are obvious with car fleet management.

Car fleet management is an important example. Using GPS technology in a fleet management system gives any fleet manager a real-world understanding of what’s truly going on with an organisation’s mobile assets.

A lot of trust is placed in people who operate mobile assets.

It’s a simple fact of fleet management life.

Company CEOs and risk managers can train their staff and contractors in the correct operation of a vehicle or machine. They can imbue them with the right ethics. They can even caution them with what happens should they misuse a mobile asset.

But the reality is every operator needs to be trusted to some sufficient extent.

And for any organisation that needs to know the full picture when their vehicles and machines are being used (or misused), telematics can be the answer.

On balance, a GPS fleet management system can be hard to beat.

They can reveal a fleet’s biggest efficiency shortfalls. And finding these opens the door to the biggest efficiency gains.

And this is especially the case with expensive mobile assets. Cars and commercial vehicles fall into this group.

GPS devices are common in fleet management systems.

A lot of the organisations I work with use telematics.

Here are some real-world examples:

If you’re a government contractor running tunnel washers, telematics can reveal:
- Brush down-time (to understand the true productivity of this expensive asset)
- Excess time spent on a certain area (to understand potential problems)
- And overall work time (to understand operator performance)

If you’re operating verge-mowing vehicles, telematics can give you:
- Insights into the time it takes to complete sections of road (so you can optimise operator training)
- Data if the machine is stationary for extended periods
- The time taken to complete jobs (to see if the operator is rushing and quality being compromised)

If you operate forestry machines, telematics can show you:
- If machines are being operated improperly (to help avoid damage and risk)
- If vehicles are travelling too quickly through these challenging environments (to help minimise risk and improve safety)
- If a machine has been left idling for too long (to improve fuel use and maintenance costs)
I’ve said it before but emergency services fleets use telematics to:
- Locate vehicles at all times
- Optimize dispatch planning
- And find better route solutions
Telematics are the best at showing you the truth about your mobile assets. They remove the doubts and replace the assumptions with facts.
Using telematics in a good fleet management system gives fleet operators the knowledge they thought they always had – but never really did.
Now, I’ve referred to only a limited number of assets that can benefit from Telematics. And I’ve done this deliberately.
It’s because telematics – as effective as they are – don’t always make sense with every mobile asset.
Lawnmowers, cars (used to commute to meetings) and trucks that work on regular worksites don’t necessarily need such advanced data acquisition tools.
Loaders, graders, and all pieces of equipment that are well supervised when operated don’t always need to record with these specialist devices.
It’s not always wise to invest so much money to capture data when its usefulness is quite limited.
But these data – and what they can tell you – are still important.
So how can we easily capture essential data on these assets when telematics devices are too expensive for them?
Uniqco does this by capturing and combining everyday data.
The answer is to triangulate them. Fuel records, pre-start records, maintenance records, log books (electronic work diaries), and finance records all have valuable data. And when they’re triangulated they let you can see what your assets are really doing – with a lot of accuracy.
Investing in GPS data will improve your knowledge of what’s going on with your mobile assets. They can be powerful.
But if you don’t have a specific need for them, Uniqco Fleet Data Analytics uses combinations of regular data to reveal the same insights.
Uniqco Fleet Data Analytics lets you:
- Manage your fleet KPIs and easily identify outliers that will impact on cost or safety, which means you can control the things that quietly eat your money and put you at risk.
- You can benchmark your performance against your peers, which means you’ll now operate knowing what really constitutes good performance, which means you’ll no longer be in the dark.
- Receive an automated analysis of your asset performance, which means you’ll finally know if what you’ve bought is delivering as it should.
- Integrate and triangulate data from multiple sources, which means you get the truth of what’s really going on with your fleet assets.
- See the performance – good and not-so-good – of your fleet operations, which means your whole team – operators, supervisors, and managers – can finally improve the results they can achieve.
You might be spending too much of your hard earned-money on devices you might not need. And that money could be going on your bottom line.
Like a good GPS fleet management system, Uniqco’s Fleet Data Analytics can tell you a lot more than a car’s log book can.
It can help cut hundreds of thousands of dollars in fuel costs in truck fleet management. And it can avoid all manner of possible disasters in mining fleet management.
Using the Uniqco Fleet Data Analytics program can be like having a crystal ball.
The insights it gives from your existing datasets can help you customise staff and contractor training needs, improve asset productivity, and reduce costs.
It can also make a safer workplace for everyone.
It lets you really put your data to work.
Many of our customers use Uniqco Fleet Data Analytics to get the best data insights, including the data from their telematics systems. It’s a whole-of-life fleet management software solution that shows them the cost savings and efficiency gains that are waiting patiently to be collected from their mobile assets.
They also show where many of their once-invisible risks are.
And it helps them get the ROI (return on investment) they need.

Send me your questions and thoughts. Get in touch by emailing me at [email protected].

Stay safe.

Grant Andrews
Managing Director
Uniqco

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