IER deploys a geolocation solution that meets a simple need: to know in real time where the pickup and delivery trucks are, thus enabling more effective management of one’s vehicle fleet, while reducing the environmental impact.

The IER geolocation solution, leveraging a partnership with Microlise, the leader in the field, makes it possible to manage one’s vehicle fleet as close to the ground as possible.

Real-time monitoring of vehicles

• Real-time location of vehicles via a geolocation case or PDA.
• Verification of a vehicle’s availability to include an urgent or unexpected assignment in its trip.
• Dispatch to the driver of all information he needs to perform the new assignment.

Alert management

• Alert system enabling a supervisor to monitor in real time a variety of information items and send them to the driver, if necessary.
• Availability of many information items that can be reported from a vehicle, such as monitoring of temperature, opening of door, motor stops, etc.
• Real-time information concerning non-compliance by the driver with a scheduled delivery sequence.
• Dispatch of a message to the driver to approve with him the reason for a variance from schedule.

Eco-driving and reporting of motor data:
Using CanBus, the system can report many motor data associated with how the driver is driving, such as:

• the fuel consumption of each vehicle,
• the actual mileage done,
• emergency braking,
• cases of sharp acceleration.

Analysis of this information enables freight forwarding companies that are interested in saving fuel to adopt an eco-driving policy. The system can be configured to generate automatically recommendations of better driving conduct that will be sent to each driver.
By comparing the data referring to typical driving with those of the driving according to the recommendations, the company can find out accurately the return on investment of the eco-driving solution.

Analysis and reporting tool
All the data gathered can be analyzed and makes it possible to establish summary reports of one’s fleet’s performance:

• number of driving hours,
• levels of fuel consumption,
• the progress of a day of one of the drivers: the route taken, identification of particular events (unauthorized stops, for instance),
• log of the data collected over a particular period.

IER designs and deploys a comprehensive geolocation solution that includes:

• development of software solutions and configurations,
• setting-up of multiple communication interfaces (GPRS, Edge, Wi-Fi if PDA) with automatic selection according to the type of data to be reported and the available networks,
• supply of vehicle geolocation cases, PDAs, among others.

Geolocation, many advantages:

• real-time management of one’s vehicle fleet,
• control over miles covered and fuel costs,
• reduction of one’s impact on the environment