Technology is increasingly present in different areas of our day to day and no sector is escaping, not even mobility. The connected car is an example, as well as technological tools and solutions designed to help the user in many aspects of driving and controlling the vehicle. One of them is intended for those companies that have a fleet to develop your activityor have cars for their employees.
For these cases, technology makes telemetry solutions available, which play a fundamental role in fleet control and management. Telemetry is a type of technology with which data is collected, developed and shared that serves to make an exhaustive measurement of different parameters with which to later work and optimize the management of work vehicles.
Today, these types of solutions offer much more than simply locating a vehicle, as they provide a complete performance analysis, which allows for improved efficiency in professional travel.
In this context, from Northgate Renting Flexible they identify a series of situations in which having a telemetry tool will be beneficial for a company’s fleet manager. For example, in a difficult economic situation in which companies have to make the most of their resources, fleet managers need tools that allow them to make the most of their vehicles.
In this sense, having a telemetry device contributes to reduce fuel consumption, since among its functionalities is the ability to carry out an analysis of driving efficiency, measuring speed, consumption, inertia, cruising speed, ecological speed, events that have occurred while driving, idling and even the gear change. According to data from Webfleet, which has developed the Northgate Data telemetry tool with Northgate, a company that has a fleet of light vehicles can register up to 15% fuel savings thanks to the analysis of the information provided by the Vehicle control and management tool.
Also avoid possible breakdowns on the road. Although some faults can be unpredictable, if the company’s vehicles have a telemetry solution, thanks to the diagnostic fault codes and the possibility of defining alerts related to, for example, vehicle maintenance, the mechanical condition can be monitored of the fleet and try to plan the visit to the workshop to avoid subsequent breakdowns. reduce its level of severity.
Electric mobility is here to stay. The momentum that is experiencing in part with regulations such as those that regulate ZBEs, companies that carry out their activity in urban centers need to adjust their fleet so as not to see the development of their work limited. In this sense, when an organization is committed to electric vehicles, the fleet manager will have specific needs to monitor and manage this type of vehicle. In this case, Northgate Data can provide specific functions such as reading the battery level, consumption of power, charge status or remaining autonomy.
Even talking about telemetry is also talking about road safety. Thanks to the measurements that are carried out, it is possible to know details about the driver’s route, the quality of driving and, even, fatigue. In addition, there is a component of increased safety behind the wheel just because driving can be monitored, which leads to greater attention and caution.
Thus, having a technological solution based on telemetry is increasingly becoming a fundamental tool to achieve greater efficiency in work vehicles. Reaching lower fuel consumption, promoting more conscious driving or being able to better plan fleet activity make this type of technology a competitive tool for its users.
