How to Leverage Geo-Fencing to Optimize Your Fleet’s Routes 

How to Leverage Geo-Fencing to Optimize Your Fleet’s Routes 

How to Leverage Geo-Fencing to Optimize Your Fleet’s Routes 

In today’s fast-paced world, efficient fleet management is crucial for businesses to stay competitive. One key aspect of fleet management is route planning, which directly impacts operational costs and customer satisfaction. Fortunately, advancements in technology have introduced innovative solutions like geofencing that can revolutionize the way fleets plan their routes.  

What is Geofencing? 

Geofencing refers to the use of GPS to create virtual boundaries to restrict your fleet in the designated region. It takes less than a minute to set up a geofence. To ensure the added layer of security, trigger alarm/notification can be set to act upon user-defined responses when fleet vehicles enter or exit a designated area. Geofences are a frequently overlooked aspect of any fleet management solution, but to leverage the uncapped value it should be implemented effectively and creatively.  

How to Leverage Geo-Fencing to Optimize Your Fleet’s Routes
How to Leverage Geo-Fencing to Optimize Your Fleet’s Routes

What distinguishes Eagle-IoT Geofence-to-site color-coding from other fleet management software? 

Eagle-IoT Geofence-to-site color-coding monitoring is designed to facilitate the fleet managers, monitoring hundreds of assets deployed all over the Kingdom. With the unique feature of geofence-to-site color-coding, each site/branch can be assigned a unique colour which can be utilized to  

  • Distinguish the location visits and frequency details through geofence-to-site color-coding. 
  • Average time spent at each location 
  • Average time spent traveling to and from each location 
  • Identify the deployment of fleet in undesired areas.  

    How to utilize Geo-fence? 

    Geofencing is a flexible parameter that can be utilized in a variety of inventive ways.  

    • A virtual zone can be created around important properties or places of interest for easy tracking of check-in/out activities 
    • Pinpoint key locations on a map 
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    Prevent unauthorized access 

    To prevent theft and vandalism, geofence can be used to prevent unauthorized access to your vehicles. By setting up geofences around your fleet’s parking areas, you can track your vehicles’ movements and set an alert if vehicle leaves a geofenced area without authorization after workhours. 

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    Enhanced Safety Measures  

    Safety should always be a top priority for fleet managers. Geofencing technology can help enforce safety measures by creating geo-fenced zones around hazardous areas or high-risk locations. Safe speed limits can be maintained by using geo-fence in high-risk areas, such as construction sites, where restricted speeding zones need to be enforced. When a vehicle enters these zones, the system can trigger alerts to both drivers and fleet managers, ensuring immediate action is taken to mitigate potential risks. 

    Improved asset utilization and communication 

    Geofencing can also be used to improve asset utilization by tracking the location of assets and ensuring that they are being used efficiently. For example, you could create a geofence around a customer’s premises to ensure that a delivery truck is only dispatched when it is needed. Additionally, geofenced zones can streamline communication to ensures effective coordination between dispatchers and drivers throughout the journey. Embracing geofencing as part of your fleet management strategy will undoubtedly lead to enhanced productivity and success in today’s competitive business landscape. 

    Please don’t hesitate to call our helpful customer support team at +966533085658 if you need further assistance for setting up geo-fences or are having any problems with the Eagle-IoT software. We provide comprehensive online training as part of the purchase of any vehicle tracking device. We also offer on-site training for fleets with free demo 

    Why the Utilization of Assets Matter?

    Why the Utilization of Assets Matter?

    Why the utilization of assets matter?

    While managing a fleet, one needs to produce the optimal replacement schedule for each individual vehicle but have you ever thought for taking an extra step for executing the utilization analysis for the fleet as a whole? 

    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. Understanding the preferred choice of the vehicle by the driver, choice of vehicles for the trips, and understanding the vehicle specification needed for those trip will help in determining the vehicle’s utilization category which will help in determining a strategy that ensures the fleet is operating at perfect levels at all times, and that no vehicle is being under or over-utilized.

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    Satellite Connectivity for Fleet Management

    The utilization of assets can be categorized into four levels:  reduce, replace, redistribute or monitor; depending on the threshold level established for the replacement and utilization. With the in-depth analysis of the entire fleet with Eagle-IoT fleet management and vehicle tracking software, you can easily categorize your fleet in the above-mentioned metrics.

    Eagle-i has extensive experience in fleet management and has the report that will give you the overall overview of the fleet utilization. Reports are exportable into multiple formats like XLS, PDF, CSV and more. Moreover, reports can be sorted and customized in ascending and descending fashion as per utilization or distance traveled.

    Eagle-I Summary Per Asset section gives detailed insight on the cost incurred by each asset as well as the performance of the asset for the selected date and time range. To ensure the best out of your assets, utilization asset is critical. With proper utilization analysis, you can get large dividends along with a more productive and efficient fleet capable of responding to any challenge the company might face.

    Eagle-i offers several modules in the fleet management system that can help you in getting most of your fleet in different aspects from different measurable parameters.

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    Fatigue: The Overlooked Reason Behind Most of the Accidents

    Fatigue: The Overlooked Reason Behind Most of the Accidents

    Fatigue: the overlooked reason behind most of the accidents

    In our previous articles, we focused that how telematics can be beneficial for fleet owners. Whether to increase the productivity and efficiency of the fleet or just to track the movement or the assets, it offers all. But eventually, it all comes down to the safety of the drivers, passengers, and assets. Eagle-I being the ultimate fleet management application, provides a set of tools to achieve most out of the fleet by monitoring utilization, driver behavior, routes taken, and much more. It generates a drivers’ scorecard with complete details of their driving behavior.

    Being the pioneers in the telematics industry, Digital Myth Solutions not only serves the industry with latest technologies and advanced features but we also provide insight on the issues the fleet owners are facing or may encounter, through our observations and feedback from our valuable customers. Our core purpose is to make roads safer and transportation more efficient.

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    Satellite Connectivity for Fleet Management

    What we have observed is the fleet owners tend to reward the drivers who are spending more time on the road. Higher the numbers that they see on the ‘distance traveled’ column, the better the driver is. But here we are encouraging a dangerous trend. The drivers always try to do jobs beyond their duty hours to earns some extra cash for their overtime works and with rewarding them for the high number of work hours is encouraging them to do more.

    Forcing our drivers to do more is not the best choice. In fact, it should be taken as a factor of inefficiency. The reason is simple, the more a driver spends time on the road, higher his fatigue level will rise and eventually the risk of accident drastically increases. Most of the accidents happen due to the lake of concentration, which means a lack of sleep and overburdened routines. Whether these routines are forcefully implemented or the drivers choose to earn rewards, either way, it should be discouraged. There should be a limit to the maximum allowed work hours, and if the driver scorecard indicates such a value, the score of that driver should be deducted and he should be penalized rather rewarded.

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    Distracted Driving – It’s not Just your Cell Phone

    Distracted Driving – It’s not Just your Cell Phone

    Distracted driving – It’s not just your cell phone

    While the technology has allowed us to stay connected more than ever before but it has also produced the distracted drivers more than ever before. Distracted driving is one of the most serious concerns of roadways safety. Although some distractions are unavoidable but there are some actions that can be taken to avoid the possible distractions and can be used for keeping the focus on road.

    According to the survey, there is accumulating evidence that 25% of all the vehicle crashes are because of driver distraction and driver inattention. Moreover, it has also been proved that distracted drivers are two times to 48 times more likely to get into the collision. The average time that a person looks down at his cell phone to text or email while driving is equivalent to the length of the entire football field at the speed of 55 mph with one’s eyes closed. The drivers that use their cell phones are reported to involve in 18% of fatal car crashes.

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    Satellite Connectivity for Fleet Management

    It is very important to understand the types of distraction. Distraction can be visual, Cognitive or manual. Visual distraction are the distractions that make you take your eyes off the road such as inputting an address in the GPS, placing a call, or reading a text while Cognitive distraction can be referred to anything that removes your mind from the task of driving, such as answering an incoming call, frustration with traffic or other drivers, or even daydreaming. Manual distraction requires you to take your hands off the wheel such as picking up something you drop, eating, grooming, or plugging in a power adapter.

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    Another possible distraction that can prove to be fatal is the external distractions such as rubbernecking as you approach an accident, window-shopping as you pass a mall, or looking at the scenery. The key to avoiding distraction is to stay focused on roadways and familiarize yourself with the vehicle’s system before setting off the road.

    Stay safe and focused on roadways to avoid unpleasant incidents.

    How the corporate fleet is being revolutionized?

    How the corporate fleet is being revolutionized?

    How is the corporate fleet being revolutionized?

    Fleet owners of corporate sectors are percolating the changes in their fleets by transiting their fleets from reactive to proactive with the use of connected technology. The technology of connecting vehicles has proven to be the turning point in the global economy whilst leaving their impacts utterly on every sector of the industry, with fleet management be one of this multi-faceted changes.

    Besides vehicle connectivity, other factors contributing to this revolution is the migration to the IOT and the use of big data. Considering the aforementioned changes, they will be responsible for all aspects of fleet management from vehicle selection to maintenance management and the safety of the fleet. Big data being the sophisticated tool for analyzing, will help fleet managers to understand the relationships, recognize the trends and establish the new metrics for enhancing productivity and operational efficiency. For instance, data can be evaluated to identify the driving behavior trends for past accidents, and corrective measures can be done to circumvent the incidents.

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    Big data allows access to a huge amount of raw data from the fleet. This raw data can be used to take actions which will have a significant impact on all kinds of fleets regardless of their size and vocation. These next-generation productivity tools will aggregate and correlate massive amounts of data and turn these data points into the industry’s new best practices that, in turn, will evolve into the new best-in-class standards that will drive our industry.

    If we say that the productivity of the fleet revolves around telematics, it is not wrong. Since the adoption of telematics by fleet owners, fleet productivity tools have been swiftly progressing. The standards of collecting data between the telematics providers and their devices have been drastically improved. For instance, the data generated by the vehicle, when combined with the data of predictive maintenance and its own maintenance schedule, will allow fleet managers to prevent the breakdown of vehicles and replace them on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis rather than a generalized replacement for all vehicles. This strategy will not only prove to be cost-effective but will also be time-efficient.

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