During the past several years, in-vehicle technology has been making considerable progress and improvements these improvements are providing safer conditions and ease of use for drivers/operators, improved service & travel times for customers, and improved performance standards that provide a sizable cost savings and ROI to the overall operation for the agency and/or managing organization. The option of replacing legacy hardware with tablets has many benefits
· The tablets can be consumer grade or commercial use rough duty tablets
· In many cases your mobile data plan provider will supply the tablets at no or limited cost with an annual agreement
· Tablets can be configured to fit any type or size of vehicle due to companies like GPSLockbox (The world’s first and only patented temperature regulating smart device mount).
· The tablets can be managed by using a Mobile Device Management software (MDM) 42Gears, improving performance for users and providing data security.
*The MDM provides many options for suitable apps and programs that are essential to providing safe, reliable, and timely commutes, and an improved travel experience for all passengers.
· Adaptable to most Transportation Management Software’s/solutions (TMS) · Adaptable to most Push-To-Talk (PTT) solutions
· Adaptable to most navigation solutions
· Options to add Hotspot, Bluetooth, redundancy, and other solutions
· More….
It is also important to state that your agency can be using the best TMS available to your organization but without guaranteeing that you are using compatible and efficient in-vehicle technology your TMS may not be providing the best performance due to an inferior in-vehicle technology suite. It is equally important to note that in some cases the in-vehicle software/app solutions can improve the performance of your TMS an example of this is that I have used features that are available from Orion Labs to provide a business continuity solution due to failures and shortcomings of the TMS. In-vehicle technology is important to all transportation providers passenger, goods, construction, waste, over the road, rail, ferry, etc.…
We have developed significant information from extensive research of in-vehicle technology during the past years to include the do’s and don’ts of in-vehicle technology and solutions please do not hesitate to contact us for additional information.
