Navman Wireless is offering a new reporting system to help track fuel usage across entire fleets
July 12, 2012
With the newly-minted carbon tax pushing operators to monitor fuel consumption as an indicator of carbon emissions, Navman Wireless is offering a new reporting system to help track fuel usage across entire fleets.
Asia Pacific Vice President Ian Daniel says the reporting suite covers fuel usage and CO2 emissions, and can be used in any fleet and monitors all vehicles.
Daniel says users of the Online AVL2 reporting system receive live tracking from the Navman Qube in each vehicle, and can compare this to preset average costs, to ensure vehicles are working efficiently.
“The user is able to group and classify vehicle types within OnlineAVL2 with a predetermined fuel efficiency figure, generally the manufacturer’s, which then forms the basis of the fuel usage calculation along with known travel distance based on GPS mileage,” Daniel says.
“Fuel usage can then be either reported on, or, displayed within the dynamic dashboard.”
The same information can also be used to identify patterns of driving behaviour that impact on fuel efficiency, including speeding and excessive idling.
“Businesses can easily identify which specific vehicles or drivers are unnecessarily burning fuel by idling or speeding and work proactively with those drivers to rectify the situation,” he says.
Daniel says the Qube remains separate to the vehicle’s own computers and tracks location, speed, direction and time to create a real time picture of the vehicle’s activity.
With real-time updates, Daniel says fleet managers can request alerts for events such as vehicle speeds and excessive idling, tracked if the vehicle remains stationary with the ignition switched on.
The use of geo-fencing of both company and customer depots identifies if trucks are held in queues, allowing bottlenecks to be eliminated and accurate time on site billing to be issued.
An additional advantage is the ability to set geo-fences to identify when a truck is approaching a depot, to ensure rapid turn around and minimise downtime.
