As the Internet of Things (IoT) evolves, technology is no longer just creating a solution with a singular task. Go ask Alexa to find out for yourself, and then come back. The technology is unfolding into modifying the end user’s behaviors and watching over activities to influence those actions. Smart solutions, like the one’s found in GPS tracking and fleet management, has grown from simply tracking the locations of vehicles out in the field.
Today’s solutions, whether for the government, business, and first responders, is also keeping watch for activities and behaviors that can put drivers, departments, enterprises and their reputations at risk. Think of these solutions as driver monitoring systems promoting safe driving, inter-departmental transparency, and a way to introduce a new level of value-added services to customers, protections for employees, and benefits to you.
The goal is clear when it comes to keeping companies secure and profitable through creating a safer environment for driver’s, deputies, or emergency medical personnel and GPS tracking solutions are the easiest and most efficient way to attain that goal. Composed of high-tech CalAmp fleet tracking devices, hardwired into vehicle systems and a dynamic dashboard for careful centralized team management. GPS devices, like industry-leading CalAmp devices, progressively collect raw data of all your vehicles, like, as mentioned earlier, driving behaviors like hard braking, rapid acceleration, and speeding, and then relay the information to your office or department.
The minute-by-minute location, performance, and maintenance data on each vehicle, and it’s driver, is a comprehensive and inclusive solution that is one large part of the IoT, bringing weekly driver activity, identifying risk behaviors and improving overall satisfaction amongst staff.