What is fleet management software and how does it work?

Your fleet’s success and profitability is reliant on managing a myriad of different tasks. Globally, successful businesses are embracing fleet management software, or telematics, to help them manage their fleets and maintain high standard of safety, productivity, efficiency, and compliance.

Managing your fleet with telematics creates a new era of connected vehicles for your business that provides advanced data and insights to fully optimise your operations.

EROAD’s telematics technology comprises of four key components, which all work together to tell a story about the performance of your vehicles.

• Vehicle Connection – Installing EROAD in each of your vehicles, or on equipment, allows you to capture key data about what your vehicles are doing at any time. This includes where your vehicles are as well as speed, idling, handling and fuel use. Adding an in-cab device also enables two-way communication with your drivers to optimise your vehicles’ efficiency on the road. Drivers can receive live route updates, driver coaching or provide information and ETAs back to office staff.
• GPS monitoring – EROAD is supported by GPS vehicle tracking which monitors the location of every vehicle in your fleet with a high degree of accuracy. This allows you to see exactly where your drivers are, what routes they’ve taken and how they are performing.
• Network communications – Data collected from your vehicles is stored, then transmitted across a private end-to-end encrypted cellular network to EROAD’s central database. Satellite communication lets you track vehicles and communicate with drivers even when they’re in remote areas and outside of mobile coverage.
• Office management and analysis – EROAD’s cloud-based portal then provides you with easy-to-understand visualisations of your fleet’s activity so you can manage your compliance, health and safety, fleet maintenance and management and identify business trends or issues that can then be addressed.