Fleet Management and Internet of Things:
Fleet management and Internet of Things, both are today’s tech buzz, now
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become prodigy for most of the industries providing them exceptional benefits whether it’s for operation or transportation.
Some IoT soothsayers have also predicted that the internet of things will be the major tool investment in shipping and logistics.
A common question arises in our mind, why has the internet of things become the hotbed in fleet management?
In this article, we’re gonna discuss so many reasons sufficient to know about the importance of the internet of things in fleet management.
It has been predicted by internet experts that the number of devices will be rising by 8 billion by the year 2020. Besides, more than 40 billion dollars will be spent on managing transportation and logistics through the internet of things.
The upsurge of the internet of things has also assumed by experts that there will be more than 90% of cars will be internet-connected by the year 2020 compared to the 10% of total cars in the year 2012.
Furthermore, more than 95% of businesses have already seen the great Return on Investment (ROI) for IoT.
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Firstly, we’re going to focus on the key areas in the augmentation of the fleet management increasing efficiencies of the organizations:
1. Need for Vehicles:
It tells us the number of vehicles required for transportation by detecting the increasing demand for commodities.
Besides, it also helps entrepreneurs in letting them know about economical options to select that drastically matters in making an organization profitable.
2. Safety:
It is one of the most important things for the companies where you can detect your drivers, their locations whether they’re following the road rules or company’s laws, speeds detection’s and how they’re accelerating their vehicles. Due to the insurance cost, safety becomes a vital thing in the business.
3. Remote Diagnostics and maintenance:
During the fleet operation, it’s also relevant for the organizations to streamline fleet maintenance which is drastically important in checking the vehicles’ failure and thus can be remotely managed.
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4. Performance:
For the logistics companies, a driver should be efficient that should know thoroughly about the route of its fleet that which gas station is nearest, who is offering the lowest price with the quality and what is the nearest charging point for electric vehicles.
Besides, these are some other ways of connected technology which has proved efficient of the businesses during the fleet management:
5. Support Unlimited Data:
For the logistics companies, the most important jobs are to handle a large amount of data due to the immense amount of information like speed tracking, fuel consumption, vehicle utilization, km or miles tracked, location tracking and many others.
Before the arrival of the internet of things, most of the companies were tracking these things manually, where due to lags occurrences; it was very tough to get accurate information for entrepreneurs all the time.
With the help of the internet of things, vehicles, driver devices, GPS and office equipment are connected mutually with all IoT connected devices that send information in real-time to the managers.
IoT connected devices in the fleet management don’t only collect and analyze all kinds of received data but also solve the problems detected through IoT connected devices.
6. Gain exceptional accurate information:
Keep an eye on drivers always is a key to success in fleet management of logistics companies.
If devices are IoT connected, fleet managers will get accurate information if it’s recklessly driving or they’re making random stops during the journey.
These connected devices also let them data about the wasting of fuel after leaving the engine running. There is no other manual option available to track all these things and thus internet of things can leverage logistics organization.
With the assistance of automated fleet management solutions to connect carriers tracking the activities of the drivers, users can also get the unusual insight regarding the fleet management as well as the behavior of the drivers.
Thus fleet managers get accurate data about the core problems in the fleet management detecting them in real-time.
7. Cost Optimization:
It’s one of the vital aspects for the fleet management companies that help them to ensure spending the budget more wisely.
With the connected IoT device, the fleet manager can understand where the money has been spent and what are the key areas that endeavor to save money of the companies? Besides, the internet of things also provides us maximum discount during the tax time.
IoT solutions help managers to automate mile tracking, where it becomes easier to pay you the taxes after some unbelievable deductions in the tax rates.
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8. Greener methods:
The internet of things saves fleet management companies from undue wear and tear.
More idling time and speeding more will become a cause to spend extra fuel cost and thus they are also harmful to our environment.
Besides, most of the experts also suggest that idling vehicles are responsible to spend more than 1 billion gallons diesel wastage while more than 10 million tons of carbon dioxide is also emitted to our environment.
Using the internet of things devices to truck driver’s behavior, it’s the easiest way to get rid of fuel expenses and overuse by sending an alert to the fleet managers.
Conclusion:
IoT is one of the best ways to control the vehicles of logistics companies by tracking the location and drivers’ behavior at the same time.
IoT has established various norms in the development of many companies so nowadays most of the organizations, especially those who have to collect a vast amount of data started using such devices connected via sensors.
IoT devices help companies to leverage in the competition establishing great connectivity between these devices and thus sending the information to the fleet managers.
IoT devices help companies to identify the potential problems during the fleet operation, drivers’ safety, as well as mitigating the risk of the increasing cost for the same.
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