This study provides a detailed scenario of the applications and solutions of vehicle telematics for fleet management. It also helps to understand the comprehensive analysis of how automotive telematics smartly integrates informatics and telecommunication. The case study helps to understand how various services and solutions used for monitoring and tracking the vehicle function. Telematics generally refers to the combination of informatics and telecommunication that has made many things possible in the field of logistics, transportation, and automobile. It has dramatically changed the way one travels thus by bridging the big gap between transportation and its efficient management.

This study provides a detailed scenario of the applications and solutions of vehicle telematics for fleet management. It also helps to understand the comprehensive analysis of how automotive telematics smartly integrates informatics and telecommunication. The case study helps to understand how various services and solutions used for monitoring and tracking the vehicle function. Telematics generally refers to the combination of informatics and telecommunication that has made many things possible in the field of logistics, transportation, and automobile. It has dramatically changed the way one travels thus by bridging the big gap between transportation and its efficient management.

The ideal application of telematics thus ranges from plain vanilla tracking to management of fleet, in-vehicle infotainment and seamless connection between mobile, application center and the vehicle in order to get the information related to business.

For example, Fleet Robo is an example of Telematics products that help to develop various aspects of transportation, logistics with unified integration in GPS Tracking devices, sensors, nd software applications. It generally offers the following solutions like fleet management, Vehicle insurance, Vehicle Tracking, and Car Infotainment. Therefore, Vehicle Telematics has brought about an ambitious concept of the IoT and its various applications for transportation. The vehicle has been connected are a networked entity that can easily communicate with connected vehicles, smart devices and central rooms that can be a responsive functional unit and helps to exchange information on a real-time basis with the use multiple sensors. A large amount of vehicle data, customer records a driver record helps to generate MIS reports that further aids in increasing the business efficiency and Return on Investment.

Let us have a look at the empowerment of vehicle telematics application and software:

• Helps in en-routing with utmost ease with minimum consumption of fuel
• Updating of a minute to minute vehicle tracking
• Maximization of customer satisfaction with low fares and a decrease in the transportation time
• Efficient in crisis management at the time of accidents
• Effective on cost saves time and effort by providing economical service to the client

Some Case Studies are mentioned below:

Company – Verdant Group PLC

Verdant Group PLC is a Britain’s fast-growing specialists waste management providers and they have installed Skyline GPS advanced tracking and security system and it helps to provide important business information in order to support Verdant’s service quality and thus helping them to deliver high service standards. With the help of advanced tracking and security system, it helps to provide detailed, relevant and user-friendly information on 24*7 basis.

Some of the key features of Skyline GPS are:

• Worldwide map coverage
• Total security protection
• Optimal 24*7 monitoring through an approved Secure Operating Centre

The Skyline module is a small device which contains a service board, GSM/GPRS modem, high sensitivity GPS receiver and battery backup with a compact waterproof housing. The Skyline module helps to track vehicle movement, tamper attempts, and ignition state and with the help of sensors installed it help Verdant to record the location, time and process so as to ensure that the work is being carried out at the correct location, to the mutually agreed schedules.

Company: Selwood

Selwood Ltd is a company that operates for a fleet of company’s vehicles and has its branch nationwide and thus these vehicles are important for the success of the business.

Therefore, installing the Skyline system which is fleet management and security system helps to track their vehicles and also helps to improve the security, performance, and efficiency of vehicles. With more than 200 vehicles of Selwood being closely monitored by Skyline has helped to a great extent in many ways:

• Reduction in accidents of Vehicles: The Selwood can now easily monitor their vehicle and check if their vehicles are driven properly and take actions if they are not. Thus, by utilizing the Skyline monitoring tools Selwood has been able to achieve a reduction of 40% accidents and had also helped to a great extent to collect information from vehicles that are being involved in accidents and therefore to refute the number of third-party allegations.
• Increase in Security: Skyline has helped to a great extent Selwood to save its vehicles through theft and has assisted them from a security perspective.
• Cost Saving: By installation of Skyline web tracking has helped in order to improve the performance of Selwood fleet as they were able to track down their drivers and their driving behaviors that had directly impacted the cost. The information received by them has majorly helped them to properly train and guide their drivers resulting in cost saving.

Company: FM Conway

FM Conway is a company that majorly provides services which include highway maintenance, traffic management, civil engineering etc. Thus, by adopting the Skyline where FM Conway's trucks were fitted with Enigma flagship helped them to a great extent to increase security and management of vehicles leading to the improvement in the driving standards.

Furthermore, by tracking down the information captured by system FM Conway has been able to identify the bad habits and guide and provide the drivers with the best solutions available. Skyline is able to capture the speed of the vehicle and generate reports that are based on GPS data and the local speed. Adding to this it has also helped to improve the efficiency and consumption of fuel of vehicle by better journey scheduling.