Network Fleets Award Winning Safety and Security Tools

Network Fleets Award Winning Safety and Security Tools
 Network Fleet is one of the leading providers of wireless fleet management services that improve fleet operations by decreasing fuel use, optimizing vehicle utilization, decreasing maintenance costs with vehicle diagnostics, and improving driver management. Network fleet’s technology combines patented remote diagnostic monitoring with GPS-based Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) systems. With access to more than 50 patents issued or pending, the company received the 2008 High Tech award and was a finalist in Connects 2008 Most Innovative Product Award for clean technology. Network fleet’s safety management tool provides not only fleet security and safety, but also peace of mind for drivers, especially those who go on remote service calls at all hours. Network Fleet’s wireless fleet management system continuously monitors a vehicle's location and engine status. Fleet managers log in to a secure web site to access the new Network Fleet utilization reports, which include the Utilization Summary Report and the Utilization by Day Report. Users can set multiple parameters for each report. This flexibility allows them to run a comprehensive report for all vehicles on a single parameter such as "miles driven," or an exception report such as "miles driven greater than 100" or "days utilized less than five.". "Network Fleet is working closely with customers to provide them with the information they need to make intelligent decisions that improve fleet utilization and maintain mission-critical operations." . Automatic Vehicle location Mechanism And Benefits Automatic vehicle location is a means for automatically determining the geographic location of a vehicle and transmitting the information to a requester. The GPS receiver captures position data from the satellites, computes the position of the vehicle and sends this information to a central base station, using SMS. This information will be collected by the built-in web-server at the base station of Automatic vehicle location. When optional storage module is installed, then location data can be stored when the vehicle is out of range of the cellular operator and retrieved later. The data will be sent to the control center via nationwide GSM network. Locating a vehicle is very easy. An SMS alert conveying the latitudinal and longitudinal position of the vehicle will be received. The position is mapped on digital road maps using the Geographic Information System. The authenticated username and password to access the Internet portal and obtain information on the location of vehicles. One can constantly and accurately view the location of your vehicle on the map on the computer screen. Automatic vehicle location system works anywhere in the world. Companies needing to track valuable assets for insurance or other monitoring purposes can plot the real-time asset location on a map and closely monitor movement and operating status. Types Of Automatic Vehicle Location System Automatic vehicle locating system is a powerful concept for managing fleets of vehicles, as service vehicles, emergency vehicles, and especially precious construction equipment, public transport vehicles (buses and trains). It is also used to track mobile assets, such as non-wheeled construction equipment, non-motorized trailers, and mobile power generators. Simple direction finding systems like cellular or PCS wireless systems use direction finding or triangulation of transmitter signals radiated by the mobile. This is called as radio direction finding or RDF. The simplest forms of these systems calculate the bearing from two fixed sites to the mobile. This creates a triangle with endpoints at the two fixed points and the mobile. Trigonometry tells roughly, where the mobile transmitter is located. The LORAN system consisted of an LF LORAN receiver and data interface box/modem connected to a separate two-way radio. The receiver and interface calculated a latitude and longitude in degrees, decimal degrees format based on the LORAN signals. This was sent over the radio as MDC-1200 or MDC-4800 data to a system controller, which plotted the mobile's approximate location on a map. Signpost transmitters’ automatic vehicle locating system is used on transit routes and rail lines where the vehicles to be tracked continually operated on the same linear route. A transponder or RFID chip along the vehicle route would be polled as the train or bus traverses its route. As each transponder was passed, the moving vehicle would query and receive an ack, or handshake, from the signpost transmitter. A transmitter on the mobile would report passing the signpost to a system controller. This allows supervision, a call center, or a dispatch center to monitor the progress of the vehicle and assess whether or not the vehicle was on schedule.