TGA Implements Auto Surveillance for Trucks & Buses

by عائشة | Feb 4, 2024 | General Industry News and Trends

TGA Implements Auto Surveillance for Trucks & Buses

Saudi Arabia’s Transportation Industry Embraces a Digital Future

The transformation of Saudi Arabia’s transportation industry continues, driven by innovation and a commitment to enhanced safety and efficiency. According to Saudi Gazzete, effective from April 21st, the Transport General Authority (TGA) launches automated surveillance of truck and bus traffic violations across the Kingdom. This initiative, in line with Vision 2030 and the National Strategy for Transport and Logistics Services, aims to enhance traffic safety and boost compliance with regulations

TGA’s Automated Surveillance Detects Key Violations

Targeted vehicles include cargo transportation, truck rentals, international buses, and bus rentals. The system will automatically detect violations like operating without a valid card, expired cards, and buses exceeding their operational lifespan. The Transport General Authority’s (TGA) recent announcement regarding automated truck and bus surveillance underlines the importance of compliance and digitalized solutions.

Comprehensive Solutions for Compliance Assurance

Worried about the new violations? Eagle-IoT got your back!

Smart Renewal Alerts:

As a comprehensive fleet management system, Eagle-IoT Smart Renewal module lets you set alerts for both operation card renewals and yearly vehicle inspection schedules. Receive reminders and notifications before your operation card expires.

Streamlined Compliance Verification

To ensure your vehicles remain operational, verify driver eligibility through the WASL system while still on the Eagle IoT platform. The Eagle IoT dashboard easily identifies which vehicles are registered with WASL and which require registration. You can inquire about your vehicles’ validity directly on the platform, eliminating the need to visit the NAQL platform.

Detailed Record-Keeping

Eagle-IoT also allows users to keep detailed records of their vehicle make and model. This facilitates the annual identification of operational vehicles conforming to TGA requirements. Additionally, based on utilization and compliance readiness data, users can make informed fleet planning decisions for the coming year.

Optimized Alert Delivery

To ensure timely delivery of critical alerts, Eagle IoT offers a smart rule engine. This feature allows you to specify the appropriate recipient for each alert, guaranteeing delivery to the relevant department, especially when deadlines approach. This eliminates the risk of notifications getting lost in a flood of emails.

Eagle-IoT’s cutting-edge solutions:

Eagle-IoT goes beyond streamlining permits. They leverage the power of IoT to provide your business with a multitude of benefits:

Real-time fleet tracking

Gain complete visibility into your fleet’s location and movement, optimizing logistics and dispatch operations, ensuring timely deliveries, and improving customer satisfaction.

Fuel efficiency

Monitor fuel consumption and identify areas for improvement, reducing costs and your environmental impact. Every drop saved goes straight to your bottom line and contributes to a greener future.

Predictive maintenance

Minimize downtime and ensure vehicle safety through proactive maintenance based on real-time data analysis. Prevent breakdowns, avoid costly repairs, and keep your fleet on the road longer.

Driver behavior monitoring

Promote safe driving practices and improve driver performance through data-driven insights. Encourage responsible driving habits, reduce accidents, and create a safer driving environment for everyone.

The Future of Transportation

By choosing Eagle-IoT, you’ll be well-equipped to comply with upcoming regulations and avoid potential penalties, ensuring smooth operations and peace of mind.

Imagine:

Obtaining an operation card in minutes, not days.
Having complete control over your fleet with advanced IoT technology.
Operating with confidence, knowing you’re compliant and contributing to a safer, more efficient transportation system.

This is the future Eagle-IoT and Wasl are actively shaping. Together, they empower transporters to thrive in the evolving regulatory landscape, contribute to a safer and more efficient transportation system, and ultimately propel Saudi Arabia’s economy forward.

Ready to embrace the future?

Partner with Eagle-IoT to streamline your operations, ensure compliance with TGA, and gain a competitive edge. Contact us today to explore comprehensive solutions and unlock the path to success in the dynamic transportation industry.

Together, let’s drive the transformation of Saudi Arabia’s transportation industry towards a brighter, more efficient future.

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What is the importance of Axle Load Monitoring System?

by عائشة | Feb 1, 2024 | Fleet Management and Telematics

What is the importance of Axle Load Monitoring System?

Why Every Public Transporter Needs Load Monitoring in Saudi Arabia

As we all know, a rule has been passed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia regarding the monitoring of load. According to this new rule, it is mandatory for every public transporter to have their trucks integrated with the load sensors. But do you know why this is mandatory for all?

For anyone who is managing a fleet of heavy assets, what comes to your mind when you are budgeting? Often we think of combustibles and vehicle expenses but what about the maintenance and technical failure expenditures? When it comes to the heavy-duty assets, the most exposed part is the axles of a freight truck bearing stress whole time leading to hefty maintenance outlay.

An overloaded truck is a serious threat to other road users and infrastructure. As heavier the weight of the truck is, higher will be its kinetic energy resulting in the drastic consequences in case of a crash. For safe operation and maximizing the payload whilst avoiding fines for overloading, the monitoring of axle load is inevitable.

Benefits of Axle Load Monitoring:

Reduced Maintenance Costs: Overloaded vehicles put excessive stress on axles, leading to quicker wear and tear and expensive repairs. Axle load monitoring helps prevent overloading, extending vehicle life and reducing maintenance costs.

Improved Safety: Overloaded trucks pose a serious safety risk, increasing their stopping distance and potential for accidents. Axle load monitoring ensures safe operation by staying within weight limits.

Optimized Payload: By knowing the exact weight on each axle, companies can optimize cargo distribution for maximum payload without exceeding limits.

Reduced Fines: Overweight fines can be significant. Axle load monitoring helps avoid these fines by ensuring compliance with regulations.

Prevented Underhand Cargo: With real-time load data, companies can monitor loading and unloading events, preventing unauthorized or unreported cargo.

Infrastructure Protection: Overloaded trucks damage roads and bridges. Axle load monitoring helps protect infrastructure by ensuring vehicles stay within weight limits

Eagle-IoT Axle Load Monitoring Solution

Eagle-IoT offers the monitoring of axle load with the integration of its advanced axle load sensors. With Eagle-IoT axle load monitoring, you can always monitor the excess load of the vehicle overall along with the load per axle. These load sensors are capable of sending data through a GPS tracker to the online monitoring system and/or to onboard driver’s display. Moreover, with its custom settings, you can receive an alert for loading and unloading events along with the event’s location of the map with respect to the time of the event. This information will help you in keeping the check of underhand cargo and will prevent the overloading of the vehicle. Thus depreciation of the vehicle and road infrastructure can be avoided and maintenance cost can be reduced.

Eagle-IoT axle load monitoring is not only limited to freight trucks but it is also appropriate for measuring the loads in dump trucks, garbage trucks, city buses, light-duty trucks, and municipal vehicles. Axle load monitoring is not only capable of preventing the breakdowns but will also optimize the cargo loads and prevents from hefty fines while exceeding the allowed axle load limits.

Would you like additional information about Eagle-IoT?

Call now at +966 56 638 7859

Or email us at news@dms-ksa.com

We are here to help.

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Optimize, Extend, Protect: Your Fleet with Eagle-IoT

by عائشة | Feb 1, 2024 | Fleet Management and Telematics, General Industry News and Trends

Optimize, Extend, Protect: Your Fleet with Eagle-IoT

Fleet management is a dynamic and demanding task that requires meticulous attention to detail and a proactive approach. Fleet managers are tasked with managing the total cost of ownership across all fleet assets while striving to optimize operating costs. In today’s economic climate, where many industries face challenges related to shrinking profit margins, the responsibilities of fleet managers become even more crucial.

As fleet management often constitutes a significant portion of a company’s operating budget, there is a heightened need to focus on increasing the equipment’s life cycle while minimizing operational costs. From vehicles to equipment, ensuring their optimal performance and extending their lifespan is not just about maintenance; it’s about safeguarding the investments and maintaining operational efficiency. In this article, we’ll delve into the strategies and practices, with a specific focus on how Eagle-IoT Fleet Management can elevate these efforts.

Satellite Connectivity for Fleet Management

Implement Regular Maintenance Programs

The backbone of fleet longevity is a robust and regular maintenance program. While preventive maintenance incurs upfront costs, it helps in avoiding exorbitant expenses associated with reactive maintenance. Scheduled maintenance ensures that vehicles and equipment are inspected, serviced, and repaired at predefined intervals. Eagle-IoT’s Fleet Management Solution offers a comprehensive maintenance module, allowing you to schedule and track maintenance tasks efficiently. By investing in routine maintenance, companies can save on towing costs, unplanned downtime, missed deadlines, and potential fallout from accidents, making it easier to plan for maintenance costs compared to unexpected breakdowns

Embrace Technology for Predictive Maintenance

Eagle-IoT leverages advanced telematics, OBD data and IoT devices to offer predictive maintenance capabilities. This technology provides real-time insights into the health of your assets, enabling you to predict when maintenance is needed based on actual usage and performance metrics of your engine. By addressing issues before they become critical, Eagle-IoT not only prevents unexpected downtime but also extends the life of your fleet components

Paper Free Documentation for Powerful Insights

Eagle-IoT offers an efficient way to manage maintenance documentation compared to paper forms. With Eagle-IoT around, information is stored in the cloud, providing a detailed inspection and service history breakdown that is easily accessible for every asset in the fleet. Fleet managers can track work orders, parts and labor costs for each vehicle, and parts inventory through a user-friendly and intuitive dashboard of Eagle-IoT CMMS powered by SmartX. This digital solution streamlines the maintenance documentation process, making it easier for fleet managers to monitor trends and ensure compliance with maintenance requirements.

Eagle-Iot Cold-Chain Monitoring Solution

Automate, Schedule, and Manage Maintenance Process

Eagle-IoT has revolutionized the maintenance process by automating the workflow, making preventive maintenance easier to manage than ever before. By digitally automating the process and receiving timely updates for scheduling work, fleet managers can ensure that the preventive maintenance plan is executed efficiently. Eagle-IoT provides the capability to establish a service schedule for each asset allowing users to customize reminders based on their preferred intervals.

Automated updates prompt users when a service is due, taking into account factors such as distance driven, hours of operation, or the time elapsed since the last service. These reminders can be tailored to accommodate the equipment’s downtime, enabling seamless scheduling. Additionally, when a service reminder is received, users can promptly generate a work order for in-house or external mechanics with Eagle-IoT CMMS powered by SmartX. This automation streamlines the preventive maintenance workflow, ensuring that maintenance tasks are carried out in a timely and organized manner.

Track Asset Utilization

The key to optimizing the cost of your ownership and utilization rate is knowing the details of what is going on with your fleet. For making the right optimal decision, one needs to know when the vehicles are being used, for how many days during the week and for how many hours of the day. Eagle-IoT’s asset tracking solutions allow you to monitor usage patterns, identify under-utilized and over utilized vehicles and optimize the deployment of your fleet to maximize asset lifespan. Understanding how each asset is utilized within your fleet provides valuable insights into its lifespan ensures that you can make informed decisions to enhance fleet longevity.

Invest in Quality Parts and Components

Cutting corners on the quality of replacement parts might seem like a cost-saving measure initially, but it often leads to more significant expenses in the long run. Eagle-IoT encourages the use of genuine, high-quality parts, ensuring

that your vehicles and equipment operate with optimal efficiency. Quality components contribute to smoother performance, reduced breakdowns, and extended asset life.

Prioritize Driver Training and Education

Eagle-IoT’s Fleet Management Solution goes beyond tracking and monitoring. It includes features for driver behavior analysis, allowing you to identify areas for improvement. Implementing comprehensive driver training programs, coupled with insights from Eagle-IoT, can help instil fuel-efficient and asset-friendly driving habits. Educated drivers contribute to the longevity of your fleet by promoting responsible vehicle use

Monitor and Optimize Fuel Consumption

Fuel management is a core feature of Eagle-IoT’s Fleet Management Solution. Monitoring and optimizing fuel consumption not only contribute to cost savings but also impact the overall health of your assets. Efficient fuel management insights from Eagle-IoT, enhances your ability to track and analyze fuel usage patterns, ensuring the longevity of your fleet.

A Holistic Approach with Eagle-IoT

Prolonging the life of your fleet is not a singular effort but a culmination of various strategies and practices. Eagle-IoT Fleet Management provides a holistic approach that combines proactive maintenance, effective life-cycle management practices and a preventive maintenance program, efficient operations, and strategic investments. By integrating Eagle-IoT into your fleet management strategy, you’re not just extending the lifespan of your assets; you’re securing the foundation of your fleet management and safeguarding your bottom line for the long haul.

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Get Better Control of Your Hospital Asset Lifecycles: From Inventory Management to Records

by عائشة | Jan 27, 2024 | Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Technologies

The Urgent Need for Effective Hospital Asset Management

Never before has the global healthcare system has been put under such huge strain as during a pandemic. With the quick dwindling of resources, hospitals were fighting for critical medical supplies. In the healthcare industry, stakes are always higher and the ripple effect directly impacts patients‘ care, clinicians, and their procedures. But, can we overcome these unprecedented crises in the healthcare industry with effective asset management and resource utilization? The answer is YES! To improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare sector, Eagle-IoT has introduced IoT based hospital asset management solution pivoted on Real-Time Location System (RTLS).

What is Hospital Asset Management?

Hospital asset management consists of four pillars: optimal asset traceability, reliability, availability and performance. It revolves around managing and maintaining a hospital’s machinery, equipment, and physical assets in the most cost-effective and efficient approach. Eagle-IoT Hospital Asset Management system offers end to end visibility to the healthcare-specific equipment (such as anaesthesia machine, EKG Machines, hoists, syringe drivers, beds, wheelchairs), physical infrastructures (such as heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, condensers, generators, compressors, and other systems within a building), linens and uniforms.

The Power of Data-Driven Insights:

With hospital asset management, assets can be classified, maintenance schedules can be developed, and performance of the assets can be tracked. Inventory tracking systems automate supply chain processes while temperature and humidity monitoring ensure the right storage condition of pharmaceutical products and equipment. Implementing and managing an efficient Periodic Asset Replenishment (PAR) level system can be immensely difficult for a hospital.

The PAR level management can be initiated by monitoring the current flow of equipment. The best approach to accomplish this is to place RTLS exciters in specific zones. RTLS exciters provide room-specificity in which the RTLS platform can accurately track how many tagged assets are accessible per floor and if assets are ready to be cleaned. Employes can later change the PAR level information in the system as needed.

Eagle-IoT: Your Comprehensive Hospital Asset Management Solution

Eagle-IoT provides the graphical location data of medical instrument at the disposal which allows healthcare staff to promptly move tools and equipment as and when needed. Meanwhile, the utilization forecasting, identifies the assets which are under-utilized/dormant for a long-time empowers hospital administrators to make smart purchasing decisions to reduce redundant orders and allowing financial resources to be allocated to high-demand critical equipment.

Eagle-IoT hospital asset management provides a summary as well as text searches and filtering depending on multiple parameters such as IDs, classification, make/model, owning facility, stay duration, acquisition method, owning department, and Service Request data. It is easier to design procedures, keep track of inventory, shorten search times, prevent bottlenecks, and improve workflows when you have complete insights about where assets have been in the past and how they moved across the facility.

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What You Need to Know for Fleet Management in 2023

by عائشة | Jan 27, 2024 | Fleet Management and Telematics

The Evolving Landscape of Fleet Management in 2023

Amid the global recession concerns, fleet management statistics show a spike in growth rate despite the high stakes in 2022. Additionally, most sectors have seen a sharp rise in the adoption of fleet management technologies to aid in the administration of sizable fleets.

Navigating Challenges: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Fleets

Vehicle supply, cost inflation, longer maintenance periods, the management of telemetry data, and enhancing fleet efficiency through technology have been common fleet management concerns in 2022. #Fuel economy and cutting fuel costs continued to be major issues as diesel prices touched historic highs this year.

Fuel Economy and Cutting Fuel Costs: A Top Priority

In #2023 to make the best choices at the appropriate times, fleet managers must facilitate timely fleet maintenance to manage and oversee their fleets by utilizing fleet management tools such as Eagle-IoT. It is expected maintenance cost of vehicles will see a sharp rise considering the adoption of advanced synthetic automobile oils. Eagle-IoT delivers a stress-free fleet maintenance solution that will enhance your fleet’s productivity and profitability by eliminating unexpected downtime and enhancing overall efficiency in the maintenance and repair process by generating maintenance alerts on a weekly/monthly basis to highlight specific areas of focus in order to eradicate potentially critical warnings. Moreover, scheduled maintenance alerts can also be generated.

The Future of Fleet Management: Growth and Sustainability

The Fleet Management market is predicted to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.5% between 2022 and 2027, from USD 25.5 billion to USD 52.4 billion as per the report published by Markets and Markets.

Empowering Your Fleet in 2023

Telematics and Fleet Management software such as Eagle-IoT will play a crucial part in assisting businesses in reaching their bigger #sustainability_goals as the fleet sector pivots to achieve net zero. Carbon emission monitoring and transition away from reliance on gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles will be a step to clean mobility. Fleet managers should seek AI-powered Fuel & CO2 solutions in 2023 to monitor driver behavior, boost fleet efficiency, and minimize CO2 emissions. In 2023, organizations should seek solutions that allow them to establish delivery ETAs, track equipment, access predictive maintenance and analytics, and monitor fuel use and CO2 emissions.

To support and protect your business in the challenging market conditions, utilize Eagle-IoT’s advanced fleet management software backed by big data and data science techniques to analyze and interpret the data for company-wide visibility and management

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