Vehicle Tracking System in City Buses

Telematics industry is one of the fastest growing sector in automotive accessory market. Innovation and advancement in technologies, especially in hardware has led manufacturing of compact devices that are faster. Vehicle tracking industry has expanded very well in short span of time and offers lot more than customary GPS navigation and tracking to point a vehicle location. The gamut of vehicle tracking includes supporting features to track the load, temperature, riders, movement and many other related vehicle information.

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Role of Telematics in Transport Management

The progressive development of any country can be confidently inferred through how well the transportation services are available in the country ensuing the latest technological development that gives operational efficiency and business productivity with shared resources for transportation of goods and public services. The recent disruption in vehicle technologies and vehicle telematics coupled with mobility solutions have given patronage and has equipped business enthusiasts with unrivalled attitude to endeavor to bestow quality customer services.

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Fleet Management Solution for Transportation, Logistics & Vehicle Tracking

Fleet Management Solution for Taxi, Car Rental,Transportation, Logistics and provide safe and secure mode of transportation with vehicle tracking system to fleet owners.

Features:

1. Automatic Dispatching

2. Mobile Application

3. Real Time Tracking

4. Intuitive Reporting

5. Call Center Support

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JK Tyre Racing Championship 2013 – Coverage by Fleet Robo Team

JK Tyre Racing Championship 2013 held at Buddh International Circuit. Fleet Robo Team captured some amazing moments of racing and drifting of Volkswagen Polo and F3 Cars and proudly shared these moments via different social media channels. Volkswagen Polo car with Fleet Robo branding won the race.

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Demand for Telematics for Vehicle Tracking and Fleet Management in India

As a company, we get numerous no. of enquiries for vehicle tracking system and fleet management systems. We not only get enquiries from big enterprises and companies with large fleet of trucks and load vehicles which they use to transport products and the local radio cab and taxi service providers, but large chunk of requests for Vehicle tracking and fleet management devices comes from small and mid segment transportation companies and enterprises.

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4 things you should see in Fleet Management Software

1. Robust Application

2. Complete Solution

3. Customizable

4. Service and Up Gradation



Robust Application: The software you are selection for your enterprise fleet, it should be robust and must be capable enough to work seamlessly in big data environment. If it is a web application, it should be fast (Minimum Load time) with capability of real time data access and up gradation.

As a Business organization, you cannot afford a single day system downfall. So, robust fleet management software should be your first priority.

Complete Solution: You must select a Fleet Management Software Vendor who offers you a complete solution. The software must possess all features and functions that can add business value. It must posses feature set to manage end-2-end fleet management activities that comprise vehicle financing, vehicle maintenance, vehicle telematics (tracking and diagnostics), driver management, speed management, fuel management, customer record management and health & safety management.

Customizable: The fleet management processes are different for varying requirement for managing Fleet of diverse commercial motor vehicles that comprise cars, ships, vans and trucks, as well as rail cars. The operational process for a Taxi Management Service Provider and Cab Management service provider will not be similar to Inter-State Transporter involved in load transportation. Also, the requirement will be different for small and large enterprise fleet owners. The service provider you are choosing must have capability to offer you package with customized Software product. It will help your organization to continue with existing operational processes.

Renewal and up gradation: The requirement changes with time and so are the Business Needs. The software product vendor must come-up proactively with new advanced features and functions that can further help Fleet Service provider to improve his services and bring operational effectiveness. You must select that software which offers you services with market trends and requirement. For Example, 21st century is an era of mobility and mobile application for information access and dissemination. The fleet management software solution must have accessibility on smartphone moreover on other smart devices.

These are 4 requirements you must check in fleet management software. But, you must also ensure the Post sales services and previous experience of the software product service provider. It is very important to select vendor who is receptive to your requirement and feedback with prompt services in case of breakdown.

Fleet Robo – Fleet Management solution has been providing vehicle tracking and end-2-end fleet management solutions to taxi service provider, car rental companies, transporters and logistic companies and to small scale companies involved in transportation business with quintessential capability to provide customized fleet management software solution that suits both the requirement and budget of the company.

Fleet Management Software System

Fleet Management is not a jargon to denote Fleet Monitoring and Control (Vehicle Tracking and vehicle dispatching) only. It is a much broader term that encompasses all related activities that help in managing vehicle financing, vehicle maintenance, vehicle telematics (tracking and diagnostics), driver management, speed management, fuel management, customer record management and health & safety management. It is a challenge in itself to manage the plethora of activities involved manually. If you are not able to manage it effectively, believe me, you will be losing somewhere and hampering your business landscape!!



Fleet Management Software has emerged as powerful tool to streamline operational processes involved in Fleet Management. In fact, they are shaping the success path for leading Transport organizations by cutting down overhead expenses, bringing efficiency and increasing returns. How the Fleet Management Software is helpful for Transporters and Big Enterprise Fleet? Fleet management software is computer aided software that enables fleet operators to accomplish a series of specific tasks in the management of any or all aspects relating to a fleet of vehicles operated by a company, government, or other organization. These specific tasks encompass all operations that are involved in managing Vehicle Life Cycle to extract sustained outcome and Business value from it.

There are many companies existing with small service packages naming it as fleet management software but it hardly comprise elements to cater to need of big enterprise fleet and in fact not able to needs of Small enterprise fleet management also. Moreover, there are different requirements for managing Fleet of diverse commercial motor vehicles such as cars, ships, vans and trucks, as well as rail cars. But where is the solution for such dissimilar customer requirements?

As an enterprise what 4 things you should see in Fleet Management Software:-

1. Robust Application

2. Complete Solution

3. Customizable

4. Renewal and Up gradation

Fleet Robo is a set of solutions which aims at optimizing the usage of shared resources of transport industry. It empowers the fleet owners and operators with IT driven system which helps in managing and controlling the fleet across different terrain during transit.

It has functionality to analyze and optimize route for goods and personnel transportation by vehicles consequentially which saves time and fuel for ecological aims of reducing organizational carbon footprint on earth. It automates manual processes with IT Enabled solutions which nullifies the use of physical maintenance of records thereby saves time and brings operational efficiency. You don't have to ask chauffer for trip related information. It is an end-to-end solution of fleet management for fleet owners.

Benefits of Taxi and Cab Management Software System

We discussed about all the points of customer service and ensuring safety to passenger specially women, just to make one pint, i.e. to build trust with the customer. It is very important to build your brand name as trustworthy cab services. It is obvious to have all such positive results, increasing profits and business expansion if you are focusing and working diligently to enhance customer service to build trust with the customers



As a cab service provider and taxi management company, you have to think ahead about streamlining your process also and bring efficiency to enhance profits. You should focus on other points that can help you understand more about your business in order to improve continuously. Following things are important:-

1. MIS and Business Intelligence reporting system: It can help you enhance understanding and bring certainty in decision making.

2. Analyses and Pattern Study: As a business organization, you need to work in direction to remove grey areas but if you are not aware of what are the grey areas, how you will remove them? You should have system to analyze and understand the critical positive and negative factors.

3. Cab and Taxi Service Records: You should have system that automatically informs you about pending jobs for vehicle maintenance and servicing. It is a proactive approach to fight against and breakdown of vehicle during customer transit while on job. Again, it is a very important area to ensure seamless customer services and create trust among the customers.

4. Cab and Taxi Insurance Management: It is a backend activity, yet very important for every service provider. You should have up-to-date license, insurance and service of a vehicle. It is a rare case but just imagine a scenario where you haven’t renewed the Insurance and during customer transit, the vehicles have been checked by traffic guards. In absence of such documentation can bring hassle to customer but also can malign the brand image.

5. Driver and Vendor record management: As a big transportation enterprise with fleet of hundreds of vehicle, you must be dealing with corporate clients also. As a big enterprise, you should have a system that records and manage information about booking of vehicles, prepaid & postpaid payments, duty slips so as to ease the hassle and confusion involved.

Fleet Robo – Fleet Management Solution is one stop solution which is an end-to-end software solution to manage all activities involved in Cab Management Solution, Taxi Management Solution and Car rental companies. We have robust GPS Dispatching and Tracking System to manage all fleet management activities.

Benefits of Cab and Taxi Management Software System

For a cab service provider the biggest challenge is to find and dispatch the vehicle on customer request in minimum possible time in order to reduce Customer Waiting time, provide impromptu customer services and thereby bring customer delight. It is very important to focus on customer services in order to survive in Competitive Business Landscape.



What does customer expect from Cab and Taxi Service Provider?

1. Prompt response to customer request.

2. Confirmation message for Cab Booking

3. Beforehand acknowledgment with Cab and Driver Assigned

4. In-time reporting of Driver at pickup point

5. Safety and Security in the cab and with driver

6. Driver Smooth riding till the destination Point

7. All type of payment facilities Postpaid/ Prepaid

8. Alerts and Panic Button in case of Emergency

It is responsibility and necessity for cab service provider and taxi Management solution Company to ensure and fulfill above written expectations of Customer whenever availing the services. Fulfilling such expectations can help you build loyalty and thereby retain customers which are valuable source of income. You should realize that keeping customers costs less to Business than to find new ones. You practices must not drive customers away and your focus should be on services rather incurring cost in acquiring new customer.

Fulfilling above expectations is not an easy job. You should have a set system and process to manage all operational activities with efficiency. It is only possible if you have an automatic software solution that can automatically manage all the activities right from customer call tracking to assigning the right Cab to the customer pickup point within said time. The Service provider got to have Automatics Dispatching and Tracking System with all such alerts facility integrated in it, in order to provide the high standards of customer services.

As we all know how the safety of women is a critical issue. People are very specific about the transit of women on public transport. As a service provider, availability of high standards of safety and security features with prompt customer services with confirmation messages and alerts can help you enhance customer satisfaction. You are contribution not just in enhancing services but to fight back against possible mishappening and social evils.

It is very good to demonstrate commitment to listening to customers and Improve quality of service. Since, we wanted to highlight the benefits of Cab Management Software system, it fulfills all the expectations of customers mentioned above to enhance services and bring customer satisfaction.

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GPS Vehicle Tracking and GPS Navigation

Often, the term GPS Tracking and GPS Navigation are mingled and used indifferently in describing them as solution for Car Security and Safety. Few consider it overlapping terms and can be quiet baffling in understanding it precise utility.

Both GPS Vehicle Tracking System and GPS Navigation System use GPS or GLONASS technology for locating the vehicle. Both make use of data sent and received via satellites that orbit our earth, but are packaged in two different ways. The applications may be different but the underlining ICT Infrastructure and Architecture is same. Both use satellites to pinpoint the whereabouts of you or your vehicle.



How the Application is Different?

GPS Vehicle Tracking System tells you where you or your Vehicle has been whereas GPS Navigation assists you in determining how to reach a particular destination.

In GPS Navigation System, an LCD Display panel with Tracking Device (Comprising Network SIM with GPRS Enabled) is installed in your Vehicle which receives signals from the Satellite which helps in determining its location. The latitude and longitude and longitudes are mapped on digitized map that is available on LCD Screen. There are advanced Solutions which assists driver with route for 2 destination points. It is purely for Driver assistance in reaching the destination. Nowadays, Smartphones Applications (iPhone, Android, Blackberry Application) are also used for the same.

GPS Vehicle Tracking use GSM Network Infrastructure with Application Server which assists the operator in viewing Real time Location through Internet or Software Application. It has altogether different application where you like to know whereabouts of your chauffeur driven vehicles. It is more a Business Application or can be used for Personal Tracking. It has 2 Variants in the form of Active and Passive Tracking. It provides a web based platform (Web Interface/Application) to view your vehicles in real time and reports showing historical data on where the vehicles have been.

The GPS Tracking Devices and Software Solutions are used by Big Enterprise and Fleet Owners to analyze the patterns of movement to increase operational efficiency. PSU’s are also using the GPS vehicle tracking devices in logistics. Five year plan from 2007-2012 was launched by states of Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh to install tracking devices on the vehicles they use for PDS distribution. It was been observed that a higher percentage of the goods were making it to the final destination without loss or diversion into the black market. The system also helped increase efficiency and cut costs throughout the entire distribution process.

References:-

http://www.fleetrobo.com/blog/

http://www.rmtracking.com/blog/2013/02/18/gps-used-to-track-food/

http://binarysemantics.blogspot.in/

Vehicle Tracking in India

Vehicle Owners are installing Vehicle Tracking System not just to jazz – up their cars with latest technological solutions but also to make sure Vehicle Safety and Security during transit on road. The Vehicle Tracking Solutions not just give remote vehicle information access but also the application software interface to control your vehicle during transit. You can switch off the ignition of Vehicle remotely using application accessible through internet.

With emergence of Mobile Applications, many vehicle tracking solution providers have come-up with Android Application, iPhone Applications and Blackberry Applications to give Vehicle Control on the go using your Smartphone. Function Specific Application helps you identify real time location of Chauffeur driven vehicles.



The Vehicle Tracking System ensures safety of vehicle on road. Even the government understands the importance and advantage of using advanced technological solutions for Vehicle Safe. The RTO-Regional Transport Office in Surat is in amid massive and ambitious exercise of fitting High Security Registration Plates (HSRP). As per report in TOI on 4th Dec 2012, it will help police in tracking down stolen and missing vehicles, on automobiles, including cars and motorcycles.

On 13th Feb, govt. announced sanction of 12,000cr for modernization of police forces, including strengthening of security network in all major cities, in next five year. According to news in Economic Times, partial amount will be used for Procurement of modern equipment like GPS/GIS for dial 100 system and patrol cars, CCTV systems, vehicle scanner, vehicle number plate identification system, cyber patrol and communication monitoring system and integrated GIS based automated vehicle tracking and management system are part of the Mega City Policing plan.

Not just for commercial use, there is availability of vehicle tracking solutions for very small fleet of vehicles, i.e. for 2-3 vehicles also. There are web applications with which even we want to enroll single vehicle and want live tracking of the same, which is also possible in affordable prices. The in-trend mobile applications are very much useful for personal usage.

Fleet Robo – Fleet Management Solution and Vehicle Tracking Solution are one such affordable Software solutions with all the functions and features to ensure Remote Vehicle Information Access and Control. With recently launched iPhone Application for Vehicle Tracking, it has become the best tool for Fleet Operators. Get visibility beyond your line of sight to monitor whereabouts of your family with chauffeur driven vehicles!!

Fleet Robo Vehicle Tracking application for iPhone is developed to give you a Hawk Eye to get real time location of vehicles.

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Phone: 0124-4578700

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References:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/government-sanctions-rs-12000-crore-additional-funds-for-police-force-modernisation/articleshow/18485953.cms

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/surat/RTO-to-take-up-high-security-number-plate-work-by-December-end/articleshow/17474059.cms

How to ensure safety of elders in City ?

It is becoming significantly important to ensure safety of elders especially when unwillingly we have to depend on chauffeur for their transit. Not only elders, we are always engrossed with worries when we have to accompany a driver for transit of family members to market, function, school, office etc. We don’t want to get negative about safety of our family members, but becoming slightly cautious can help us feel complacent enough to focus on our work simultaneously ensuring the required safety for our family members during movement in the city.

We are talking about the personal tracker for your chauffeur driven vehicles. Lot many times, the vehicle is not ben driven as what is expected from the driver. When not in line of sight, you can never be sure about safe handling of vehicle. Moreover, we cannot take chances when we have to give responsibility to the driver. In all such cases, Personal Tracker by Fleet Robo Vehicle Tracking System is the best solution.



How it is helpful?

1. Real Time Information of your chauffeur driven Vehicles.

2. 24 X 7 Call center support for all information access of all the registered vehicles.

3. Smartphone Application for iPhone, Android and Blackberry to track vehicles anytime!! Anywhere!!

4. Robust Devices that don’t fall back when required the most.

5. Light Weight Devices and Easy to Install Application System to ensure Vehicle and Passenger Safety.

6. Panic Button and SOS for passenger to give alert to the administrator.

How it Works?

You need to install the GPS Tracking Devices in your Hatchback, Sedan, SUV, MUV or Bike. This Device comprises GSM Network SIM with GPRS enabled. The Device is connected with plugins like SOS button for Passenger Safety. All these works in synchronization to receive satellite signal which helps to map exact latitude and longitudes. The information is transmitted by tracker through GPRS to Application Data Center.

End Information is compiled and provided to you through internet on web interface for Desktop, Laptop, Tablets and Smartphones.

In this fast paced economy, we cannot pace our self just by letting our resources been mis handled. Above all, it is imperative to ensure the safety and get updated about whereabouts of our family members.Next time you are sleeping, you need not to sleep with worry of safety of your vehicles.

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