Capital Equipment News May 2021

TELEMATICS

Eazi Access has quality, third-party aftermarket telematics units in its trucks and light commercial vehicles.

The ‘new phenomenon’ of OEM telematics on capital equipment The value of telematics on capital equipment in almost all applications has been proven beyond doubt. In this feature, we turn to work-at-height and materials handling company Eazi Access for its take on the OEM-supplied versus third-party telematics debate. By Mark Botha .

E azi Access national fleet manager Jonathan Mphake says the trend among capital equipment OEMs to design and install their own telematics solutions on vehicles is “a new phenomenon that started in the automotive and equipment manufacturing worlds in recent years, by OEMs installing their own telematics systems, as they recognised a rise in aftermarket telematics or third-party units being installed”.

“I believe one will see both OEMs and third- party telematics companies providing these systems as single, holistic systems, which will add context to the vast data generated from normative telematics.”

Jonathan Mphake, national fleet manager at Eazi Access

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