Geofencing in telematics is an advanced technology that has a wide range of applications. It is a method of defining specific geographical areas and creating a virtual boundary that can be monitored. It allows companies to monitor specific areas where their employees work and improve efficiency and safety.
Benefits
Evaluation of zones
Get accurate data on locations, trips, and activities in geozones.
Proof of services
Manage and document services simply and effectively.
Individually configurable
Customize geozones and design them according to your wishes.
Our detailed zone analysis provides a precise look into the time spent within each geofence zone. It accurately captures how often an employee or vehicle enters a specific zone, and measures the duration for switching between different zones. This essential data allows for significant optimization of your team's scheduling and your fleet's route planning. Use this information to minimize downtime, streamline processes, and ultimately reduce your operational costs significantly.
The billing of services with the help of geofencing is based on the collection of GPS data to determine the actual time spent working in a specific geo-fence zone.
The data generated by the built-in telematics hardware include the exact duration of stay in each zone, the number of visits, or the distance travelled.
In addition, it can greatly simplify the management of billing and reduce the possibility of errors.
Grouping zones allows you to organise and manage your sites, customers or projects efficiently. For example, construction companies can quickly and easily add new construction sites and group zones together.
The zones can be created in different zone types: circular, polygonal, as a corridor or self-drawn
Circle
Circular geozones are particularly suitable for sites that are concentrated on a specific point or building.
Polygon
Polygon geozones are particularly suitable for areas such as car parks, warehouses or other areas that are not circular.
Corridor
Corridor geozones are good for businesses that operate along a specific route, such as a road, for example.
Drawn
Self-drawn geozones can be used, for example, to demarcate specific areas on a construction site or to demarcate a customized area in a park or public space.
The transfer of already created Open Street Map zones into our own software offers many advantages. This allows us to access many already existing geo-fence zones created by other users. This saves you time when creating new zones, and ensures that already established zones can be quickly and easily integrated into our software for your own purposes.
Geofencing provides effective theft protection by allowing you to define specific geo-fences within which a vehicle, device or other object should be located.
If the object leaves this zone, an alarm is triggered (in our software and on your smartphone) and you can take appropriate action.
By implementing geofencing, the likelihood of theft can be reduced as an alarm is triggered if an object is removed from the predefined area without authorization.
By a simple click, you can export your created geofences. Exporting geofence evaluations to XLS or CSV files offers numerous benefits. These formats are user-friendly and allow for easy data transfer to other applications. Furthermore, data in these formats can be quickly and easily analyzed. By utilizing this function, you can optimize the performance of your geofencing zones and draw important insights from the data to make informed business decisions.
Types
With just a few clicks, you can get a list of all objects in the zone and view other information such as location, speed, and timestamp.
This helps you to quickly find out which objects are within a particular zone, giving you better control over your fleet, machines, and assets.
For example, if you are running a construction site, you can use the Object Finder to quickly find out where all your vehicles and machines are and ensure that they are being used effectively.
We support you from the initial idea through the selection of the right hardware and software components to integration into existing IT systems. Even after implementation, we are at your side with first-class customer support and services. We are proud of the fact that well-known companies from various industries place their trust in us. Put yours in us and make an enquiry!
The aim of telematics is to provide the user with position and status data (e.g. engine on/off, speed, tank level, temperature, etc.) and cumulative values (e.g. operating hours, mileage, etc.) from vehicles, machines or other objects as quickly as possible.
Based on this data, for example, dispatching can be optimized, theft can be detected, and the degree of utilization of a vehicle/machine fleet can be determined. In many cases, the telematics data serves as a basis for decision-making for the acquisition of new equipment, for increasing efficiency, for optimizing maintenance tasks, for reducing insurance rates, etc.
In most cases, an interface (API) for data transfer from the telematics portal to the customer software (EPR systems such as SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, AS400, etc.) is also created.
Together we develop innovative telematics solutions tailored to your needs, which bring many advantages for you:
A telematics unit (on-board unit) installed in a vehicle or machine transmits information from these objects to a data center using wireless data transmission technology.
In the data center, the information is processed and prepared in such a way that the user can call up all the information relevant to him virtually in real time, but also historically via a web portal.
The data from the telematics units (OBUs) processed in the data center is made available to the user in an easy-to-use and clear web application. All that is required to use the platform is Internet access.
It is not necessary to install the software in the company or on the desktop/laptop. In addition to use via desktop/laptop, a "light" version is also available for mobile use (Rosenberger Drive app or Rosenberger Cockpit app) via tablet or smartphone.
The telematics platform (Rosenberger Commander) has a modular structure and is very intuitive to use. Depending on authorization and role, a variety of modules and reports are available to the user.
A short overview:
A telematics sensor is a data acquisition device that is mounted in vehicles, machines and devices and transmits data from them to a server (data center) for further processing using wireless technology.
The OBU usually consists of a radio module for data transmission, a GPS antenna for position determination, processors for data dissemination and, if necessary, additional digital and analog interfaces for the acquisition of external signals (e.g. temperature, engine signal, pressure, CAN bus, etc.).
Depending on the application Rosenberger offers different housing classes (IP54 to IP76). The antennas (radio module and GPS) can be built into the housing or can be designed as external antennas. The radio modules are available in different versions from 2G (GSM), 3G (UMTS) to 4G (LTE).
A telematics rate or license refers to a recurring charge for a telematics unit. At Rosenberger, this fee is usually a flat rate (fixed price). The following services are covered by this tariff:
Which information is recorded depends on the one hand on the telematics hardware used and on the other hand on the signals and sensors available in the vehicle or machine.
For PKWS and light commercial vehicles, for example, the following information is recorded:
For trucks, for example, the following information is recorded:
For example, the following information is recorded for construction machines:
In short: Yes!
Together we will develop innovative telematics solutions tailored to your needs that will bring you many benefits.
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