Vehicle tracking
Vehicle tracking overview
Vehicle tracking is all about having greater control of your fleet of vans, cabs, trailers and vehicles. To enable greater control you need to know the details about what is happening in your organisation because you can’t effectively manage what you don’t measure. This is particularly true when it comes to vehicle control. For example you may need to control:
- Fuel usage and miles per gallon calculations that you can base on engine idle time, driving behaviour and actual distances travelled comparing with planned routes
- Customer site arrival and departure times in line with delivery expectations, contractual penalties and any subsequent supply chain management problems
- Temperature controlled shipment tracking for chilled and frozen deliveries and being able to show your customers you delivered within their tolerances
- Crisis management when vehicles or trailers become difficult to locate, have moved to unexpected locations or have been broken into
- Fleet and driver productivity statistics, understanding hours worked, breaks taken and performance measurement
Your organisation might be interested in tracking vehicles, trailers, vans or cabs between sites, routes or across large geographic areas. Or may need to improve security, manage temperature controlled shipments or lower your spending on fuel. No matter which, we’re here to help bring you back control, with fast, scalable and therefore agile solutions.
Juniper Innovations will help you track across the UK, Europe and the World using a mixture of technologies from specialist GPS and delivery tracking software, RFID, GPS/GSM and wireless fixed or portable hardware, through to bespoke work covering covert tracking hardware and software development and delivery. With Juniper Innovation technology and techniques you can improve your vehicle control. Plus if you require products that we don’t provide we’re happy to source them or bespoke them for you – no matter whether they are hardware or software.
The diagram below summarises Juniper Innovations’ vehicle tracking products and areas where we also consult and provide support.
Vehicle security and theft
Vehicle and cargo theft is an unpleasant experience for any business. Juniper Innovations provide a range of technology and advice to help you manage this risk, such as:
- Tracking vehicles 24/7 regardless of location
- Automatic alerts if vehicles leave a defined area or site at specified times of the day or night, including vehicle tracking once a vehicle has left the area or zone
- Being able to quickly search using GPS & GSM technology
- Using covert technology to track vehicles and using both the vehicle’s battery or the tracking unit’s battery to alert and track
- Having sensitive GPS technology and longer life batteries to help you locate and track vehicles
- Being alerted if a trailer or vehicle door has been tampered with e.g. doors forced open
- Easily finding the nearest vehicle to help if you have a person in an at risk situation
- Discrete driver panic alarms if the vehicle and driver are put in an “at risk” situation
Vehicle control can be managed with Juniper Innovations’ range of products and services that include:
- A range of GSM and GPS tracking products including a full data and software hosting service to give you peace of mind
- GPS tracking software that alerts you if vehicles are moved unexpectedly or enter areas or zones where you are not expecting
- Individual trailer tracking units that run off both the cab battery and the individual tracking unit’s battery>>
- Portable tracking hardware that is discrete, powered by its own battery and where you can easily move it between vehicles
- Individual driver panic alarms that are discrete units enabling the driver to alert in an “at risk” situation>>
- Satellite navigation integration that allows you to communicate with drivers and see their expected time of destination arrival>>
- Hardware that communicates door opening and other vehicle intelligence>>
- Bespoke hardware and software to suit your specific business needs, or you can
- Contact us for more specific security and theft requirements>>
Additionally if you require cargo or product security solutions please review our inventory control solutions here>>
Chilled and frozen distribution monitoring in vehicles
Chilled and frozen vehicles and trailers need to transport products within temperature thresholds to ensure health and safety, legal, regulatory and customer requirements are met. Juniper Innovations provide a range of technology and advice to help you demonstrate tolerances have not been broken and help you manage risk when this occurs. Click on a link to read more about how the products can help you:
- Temperature probes combined with GPS and GSM tracking for single or multiple trailer or vehicle compartments
- Threshold alerts sent in real time over GSM networks
- Door opening communications and alerts when temperature thresholds are broken
- GPS tracking software showing on site arrival and departure times, as well as other delivery and journey details, or you can
- Contact us for more specific or bespoke hardware or software chilled and frozen distribution requirements>>
Fuel usage
If you have a fleet of vehicles, managing your fuel costs is a key part of your business as it can dramatically affect profit margins. Juniper Innovations has a range of products and services that can help give you more control in managing these costs:
- GPS tracking software that reports on journey mileage so you can see vehicle utilisation, route mileage so you can compare planned with actual miles
- Hardware linking to GPS tracking devices to give you engine management information such as engine running and vehicle idle times, hard braking and acceleration, all of which impact fuel usage
- Tracking software that automatically gives you recorded mileage per day, route and by vehicle/tracking device
- Bespoke hardware and software to suit your specific business needs, or you can
- Contact us for more specific fuel usage requirements>>
Delivery reporting
No matter whether you have vans delivering parcels, maintenance vehicles turning up to do site inspections or repairs, or trailers delivering pallet quantities to manage and control your business you need to understand when your vehicles arrived and departed their delivery sites. Juniper Innovations has a range of products and services that can help give you more control and to help manage your fleet:
- GPS tracking software to report site arrival and departure times, or nearest vehicle to help with a job
- Driver identification hardware giving you journey and timesheet information for each delivery
- Order tracking software and other tracking software that can report on order fulfilment and shipping information, contents in each trailer or vehicle
- Hardware linked to GPS tracking devices that show in real time when vehicle doors were opened for unloading
- Links to proof of delivery and proof of collection software
- Links to job allocation software
- Digital pen hardware and software for proof of delivery and collection
- Driver communication using integrated satellite navigation systems, driver panic alarms and mobile phones
- Bespoke hardware and software to suit your specific business needs, or you can
- Contact us for more specific delivery reporting requirements>>
Added value bespoke solutions
Where you require specific asset and vehicle tracking needs and commercially available off the shelf software and hardware does not seem to fit your physical asset size, or tracking requirements, Juniper Innovations can provide help. Read more>>
