Approximately half of costs of a vehicle fleet is fuel and truck maintenance. Reducing expenses for combustibles and lubricants, and costs for technical maintenance may help to increase efficiency of fleet and generate additional profit from vehicle operation, that can be directed to further development of a business.
Truck telematics solution by Technoton is aimed on monitoring cargo status and performance of a freight truck and helps to improve fleet management system of a business. By equipping trucks with Technoton’s telematics hardware, fleet manage/company owner gets an opportunity to:
Track route and location of the trucks using GPS
Detect risky driving, speeding, leaving the route
See cargo weight and prevent unauthorized cargo loading or unloading
Monitor current axle load and avoid fees for exceeding maximum load per axle
Improve efficiency of fuel consumption and increase fuel economy
Detect fuel theft from truck’s tank or engine fuel system
Monitor engine health, detect DTCs or other ECU errors
Truck telematics helps to reduce expenses on vehicle maintenance by using predictive maintenance approach – i.e. carrying out truck maintenance depending on real operation modes of engine, replacing fuel filters, tires and other consumable items when they are really actually worn out, rather than using schedule-based approach.
Truck telematics hardware
Features of truck telematics system
Fuel volume monitoring in the fuel tank
Monitored Parameters and Events:
Fuel volume in each fuel tank or compartment, L or %
Fuel level, mm
Temperature in each fuel tank or compartment
Volume of fuel, refueled at fuel stations, volume of stolen fuel
Locations of refueling a tank and draining fuel
Detection of adding extraneous liquids to fuel in the tank
Graph of the volume (level) of fuel in the tank
Fuel consumption monitoring in the fuel line
Monitored Parameters:
Actual fuel consumption in the fuel line with measurement inaccuracy not more than 1-3%
Fuel consumption in different operation modes: “Idling”, “Optimal”, “Overload”
Detection of attempts of tampering data and interference in the flow meter operation
*depends on fuel flow meter model and mounting layout in the fuel line
