What Attributes are Essential to Look at When Choosing a Fuel Monitoring Solution? 

What Attributes are Essential to Look at When Choosing a Fuel Monitoring Solution? 

What attributes are essential to look at when choosing a fuel monitoring solution? 

With the recent spike in fuel prices, the necessity to monitor and reduce fuel consumption expenses while maintaining corporate efficiency has therefore become one of the most important prerequisites for the existence of fleet firms. Any divergence from the regular fuel economy might indicate underlying problems such as poor driving habits, fuel theft, or the need for repair, and idling which needs to be addressed to reduce the big bite of fuel consumption in the fleet operations. 

Eagle-IoT fuel management software is designed to effectively measure and manage the consumption of fuel within the fleet across all industries. To accurately measure and track fuel inventories and how fuel is dispensed, Eagle-IoT provides remote access to monitor and manage everything from your phone. Besides this assets can be tracked 24/7 along with time stamps of events. The fuel profile for every asset can be maintained on Eagle-IoT dashboard 

Fuel level in the tank 

Fuel consumption over time 

Fuel refill/drain status 

Identify fuel theft/pilferage  

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Enter fill-ups on the go 

To save time and to avoid keeping the hassle of paper receipts, Eagle-IoT offers fuel logging where fuel receipts can be uploaded through the web platform and mobile applications. Eagle-IoT is integrated with a fuel management product called PetroApp® 

Detailed Reporting 

Eagle-IoT fuel level monitoring solution offers detailed reports about every phase of fueling such as refueling/drainage time & location, how many liters were filled, how many liters were consumed, fuel tank lid opening date and location, etc. Moreover, it offers a graphical representation to determine t cause of change in fuel volume i.e. refueling or draining of fuel in the tank. Besides this, reports can be generated to calculate the miles traveled by the fleet and the amount of fuel consumed by them, providing insight into the cost per Mile and performance levels. 

Real-time Alerts 

In case of drastic change in fuel levels, Eagle-I generates an instant notification sent automatically via SMS, email, push notification 

 

Easy Installation 

Eagle-IoT fuel monitoring sensor is a non-invasive tool that does not require contact with the fuel and does not do any damage to the fuel tank. It is easy to install and environmentally friendly. The measurement resolution of the fuel level is 0.1 mm and the measurement accuracy is 0.5% 

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Durable Hardware 

The #fuelsensor adopts the method of ultrasonic measurement, a non-contact measurement that is different from the current widely used direct contact method such as the fuel float sensor, fuel pressure sensor, and magnetic fuel sensor, so as to avoid corrosion and pollution by the fuel and maintain excellent long-term stability of the measurement. They perform extremely well regardless of the external environment and are equipped with automatic temperature compensation capabilities that range from -20C° to 60C° with IP67 waterproof resistance. 

Eliminate misuse of fuel by getting complete control over fuel purchases 

Axle weights, distribution and their configuration 

Axle weights, distribution and their configuration 

Axle weights, distribution and their configuration

Knowing axle weights and their distribution and configuration is fundamental in the trucking industry. 

 

Trailer weight distribution is critical while moving goods over long and  distances. Similarly, knowing the tractor trailer axle weights is essential for ensuring that a load is hauled legally. Driving with a trailer is substantially distinct from everyday driving. 

It is of foremost importance to mention that Eagle-IoT offers axle load monitoring solution for various axle arrangements with diverse axle configurations under the license of the Transport General Authority (TGA) and connects your trucks and trailer to the WASL portal where the operation card is issued. As we all know, an operation card is essential in KSA for your heavy vehicle transport to haul loads on roads. Some of the configurations are mentioned below: 

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Steering Axle Configurations 

The foremost axle is used to steers the tractor. 

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Single Axle 

It is generally seen on a smaller tractor-trailer, a spread axle trailer, or as a booster. 

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Tandem 

This is the most popular tractor trailer axle design configuration. There is usually a driving tandem and a trailer tandem. 

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Tri-Axle 

An assortment of three axles that can be found on vehicles, trailers, or both. 

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Quad-Axle 

A set of four axles can be found on trailers. 

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older driver vs. younger driver

Weight distribution 

Weight distribution is defined as the amount of total load capacity placed on the ground at an axle, set of axles, or individual wheel. In order to adhere to the axle ratings and weight laws, the weight of a vehicle must be spread on the axles specified by the chassis manufacturer. The axle capacity or legal weight constraints, whichever is lower, limit axle capacity. Besides the axle capacity, the Gross Vehicle Mass (GVM) is referred as the maximum operational weight of the vehicle specified by the manufacturer, which incorporates the cab and chassis, engine, and every other component of the truck. 

The distribution of load weight must be carefully considered to establish how much of the total, including chassis, cab, body, and payload, will be carried on the front axle and how much will be carried on the rear axle, and the total. A few inches forward or backward movement of the components on the chassis can do the trick to adequate weight distribution for the vehicle. 

Aside from being illegal, improper weight distribution and overloading cause excessive wear, untimely malfunction of parts leading to risky operation such as vulnerable directional control and inadequate braking capacity, and increased strain that may contribute to the frame cracking or breaking. 

Whether your vehicle has a spring-leaf axle or a pneumatic axle, Eagle-IoT offers a reliable solution for both. 

Eagle-IoT offers a high-tech sensor for spring leaf axles, which is installed on the differential axle to monitor the change in height of that axle as the weight increases. For pneumatic axles, the pressure sensor is installed to measure the air in the axle balloons which increases as the weight on the axle increases. 

A trip report can be generated based on exact time and location, providing you access to monitor where and how much the weight changed to reveal underhand cargo. Besides the Axle Load Monitoring Solution, Eagle-IoT offers a comprehensive solution for Trailer GPS Tracking and weight Tracking, and Trailer fuel management solution. 

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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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    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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    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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    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.

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