A fleet tracking or vehicle tracking system is a system that observes/monitors the activity of vehicles and assets. This $14,957.5 million market specializes in tracking vehicle information that can be seen on electronic maps via specialized software.It mainly involves monitoring and assessing the day-to-day activities in the vehicle management system. IVMS or In-vehicle monitoring system is a system where you can manage vehicle usage, driver ID, and driver behaviors from a central place. This system connects the use of automatic vehicle locations and collects fleet data.

Now let's deep dive into the question, why you should even consider monitoring your vehicles?

Along with visibility in real-time?

Right from the start at the gate entry, to weigh bridging, loading/unloading and gate exit, mobivue vehicle tracking system takes care of the movement of vehicles across your plant with utmost accuracy and integrity. Whether it is about ensuring smooth flow of materials inside your premises or ascertaining that there is minimum waiting time for trucks inside the plant, we have you covered on all fronts.

The Importance of Vehicle Monitoring

Vehicle monitoring is the core of a vehicle tracking system. It is the best way to remove the headache of constantly checking in with processes like vehicle speed, vehicle speed, engine RPM, harsh braking, harsh acceleration, and other vehicle parameters. A good VMS is capable of supervising all the above things. It is customizable to your needs and allows you to generate reports in real-time for the assigned vehicles. As per stats, only 23% of fleets use big data analytics to make strategic decisions, and 15% are still planning to have it in the future. This shows that people are still unaware of the power of vehicle monitoring and tracking system. So here are few benefits of vehicle movement and location tracking systems:

• Reduction in supervision cost: As mentioned earlier, now you're able to monitor mileage, routes used, hours on the road which helps you to collect data. You can easily cut down costs where necessary and reduce maintenance costs.
• Auto - Turnaround Time Calculation: It's best for automating the vehicle's exit and arrival time so that you can calculate the amount of time taken to complete a process.
• Lesser human intervention: Manual work often can encounter errors and delayed productivity, but precision is likely to be on point with less human intervention.
• Vehicle and Material Validation at each stage: A vehicle tracking system can monitor your external and internal processes from product validation to design validation.
• Elimination of paperwork: The digital records are always secured and private. Using online and cloud storage techniques for your data works excellent and helps you taking paperless notes.
• Visibility, Integrity, and accuracy: With the help of exceptional technology, your data is both valid and accurate. It's free of mistakes and valid.

That being said, you can also track and determine driving behaviors for choosing the best fuel consumption option.

The Challenges You Face

Here is a few challenges fleet managers face right now. And that's the reason why companies, on average, spend $860 every year on vehicle maintenance.

• Let's be honest manual token number assigning to each of your assigned vehicles is a hectic task.
• It's hard to manage traffic in the waiting area/ temporary parking.
• It takes a long time in manual verification at gate entry and manual process for assigning
• No vehicle cross-validation during gate entry
• the average waiting time of each vehicle is more than required
• Difficulty in controlling the traffic of incoming and outgoing vehicles
• It's challenging to keep an eye on Vehicle Status, and Stations passed
• There is no process visibility and transparency

The Whole Process at One Glance

Let's understand vehicle tracking systems processes—the method behind the tracking data and real-time information.

Vehicle Reporting

As a seller, you can check whether your vehicle has any major issues, which the vehicle owner was, and if the vehicle is in good shape for new potential buyers. This way, you can ease their concerns about the car's history, possibly making it easier to sell the car. As per stats, the vehicles segment accounted for a share of 41.0% in 2020. This section is about to expand from 2021 to 2028. Let's take a look at some of the key information included in a vehicle history report. Vehicle reports help you in these noble ways

• Recording when the vehicle arrives at premises gates.
• The kiosk is installed for oncoming vehicle's reporting.
• The driver enters vehicle details in Kiosk
• Reporting slip gets printed containing vehicle details
• The vehicle will move towards the temporary parking area with reporting slip
• Reporting slip will be shown to security at gate entry
• Helps in controlling vehicle traffic during reporting

Conclusion

To conclude, a vehicle tracking system can make life easy for you as a business person. Whether it's productivity or easing out all your transportation process— it can always help you in any situation. As you know, the advantages of GPS tracking are endless. You can keep accurate records, invest money in other places and keep your customers satisfied.