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vehicle management system. (Toyota also offers T-Matics
Command, a comprehensive, customizable system that
uses I.D. Systems’ asset tracking technology.) The cellular version “fills a hole in wireless systems,” says Jewell
Brown, national manager of fleet management for Toyota
Material Handling, U.S.A., Inc. For
one thing, it’s affordable for smaller
fleets that can’t justify the cost of
fixed wireless systems, she says. For
another, because cellular devices and
networks are movable, inexpensive,
and simple to install, they make vehicle management solutions economically feasible for rentals, short-term
leases, and other equipment that
moves around among facilities.
The advent of cloud-based and
other hosted systems has made it
possible for fleet managers to collect and compare data
from multiple sites using a single portal. “Applications
used to be site-based; users were only able to see trucks
within that facility,” Brown says. With hosted applications
like T-Matics, she says, customers can look at thousands of
pieces of equipment across the country, analyzing trends
on a corporate level or comparing specific sites or regions.
Telematics solutions are becoming increasingly flexible. For example, TotalTrax recently released its SX/VX
telematics platform, which features an open architecture
that allows easy integration of its own or third-party applications. Using a single hardware device, customers can
choose only the features they need
and purchase them via download-able software packages. Users can
also choose which individual functions to employ across different sites
and vehicles, and decide whether to
host the platform software locally
or centrally, or have TotalTrax host
it. In addition, the user interface
can be displayed on any browser-en-abled device, including existing vehi-cle-mounted terminals, tablets, or
smartphones, the company says.
Originally, wireless vehicle management systems only
fed data about things like impacts and maintenance
into fleet management software. The next advance was
to integrate with a WMS. In Jungheinrich’s Warehouse
Navigation System for very-narrow-aisle trucks, for example, when instructions come in from the WMS, the wireless navigation system plots the most efficient path to the
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