Capital Equipment News August 2020

“This number is increasing exponentially and, to cope with such vast amounts of data, we developed our own big data IoT platform, which is infinitely scalable and can ingest data from any source.” He says the conventional way of providing daily and monthly reporting is no longer good enough as fleet operators want to see trends and comparative behaviour. “We do this by providing bespoke business intelligence dashboards. We are also increasingly using artificial intelligence to provide predictive analysis – the ‘old school’ way was to report accidents and incidents, but the new approach is to predict and prevent these incidents.” Current trends Addressing the current trends in the marketplace, Cartrack’s Louw says fleet management solutions have improved substantially over the last five years. “The days of providing a basic fleet management platform are over. Customers want value for money, with a clear return on investment, backed-up by world-class service.” “In a nutshell,” he says, customers want

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provides accurate positional information, but with the proliferation of IoT sensors now fitted to vehicles, we are gathering data from temperature sensors; door sensors; camera systems; driver behaviour monitoring systems and many other data-generating devices.”

He says that, in some cases, these parameters are sent through “every second, in real time”. This means the telematics system must process enormous amounts of data. Netstar, he says, already “ingests” over 200-million data records per day.

better technology with improved cost- reduction and efficiency solutions, at a

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