Promoting Rural Road Safety: How Awareness and Care Keep Everyone Safe
If you’re a fleet manager, you know firsthand that your job is a constant balancing act. You’re juggling schedules, maintenance, driver safety, fuel costs, customer expectations and more, all while keeping an eye on budgets and balancing profitability against expenditures.
Add telematics to the mix, providing an endless stream of data pouring in from every vehicle, both in real-time and historical. GPS locations, engine diagnostics, driver performance scores, safety & compliance regulations, countless reports, alerts that can feel endless – then video footage from multiple cameras is thrown into the mix. It’s like trying to drink from a firehose while running a marathon.
This avalanche of ‘big data’ can quickly become overwhelming. Instead of helping you work smarter, it can very quickly feel like you’re struggling to breathe. This is where Teletrac Navman’s video telematics technology, like the Multi IQ Camera, step in with TN360. They don’t just collect data, they bring it together in a way that helps you see the whole picture, understand what’s really going on, and make smarter decisions faster.
The Data Explosion: Why Raw Data isn’t Enough
As complexities increase, so does innovation. Video telematics is beginning to shape the industry for the better as fleet management solutions pull data from multiple sources into intelligible insights to go along with the footage. Think GPS, fuel consumption, engine alerts, driver scores and many other performance and safety metrics being captured alongside real-time footage from the road ahead to driver-facing angles.
Combining this data into an optimised workflow is the game-changer. When all this visual and analytical information is combined into actionable insights, a workflow is needed to support you and your team. Via a video event dashboard, you can view events as the come in, flag them for priority or for different team members to review or set a status for each.
You can also set up to receive instant alerts when risky events happen, like harsh manoeuvring, forward collision, or distracted driving in which video footage is linked to give you immediate context.
Turning Data into Actionable Insights with TN360
Installing hardware into your fleet is the first step of many before you can make real change and progress. TN360 is Teletrac Navman’s flagship fleet management platform designed to provide clear and actionable insights when you need it the most. Its strength lies in bringing together multiple data streams and video into an integrated, easy-to-navigate system. Let’s explore how TN360 can help you make sense of all the data and how you can use it to improve your business.
Dashboards and Reports That Make Sense
Instead of drowning in spreadsheets or endless footage you must download from a DVR every week, TN360 offers dashboards and a specific insights module that highlight key performance and safety metrics that include footage, alongside real-time alerts and scorecards that benchmark driver behaviour. Whether it’s driver safety scores, fuel efficiency trends, or real-time vehicle status, the information is presented visually with graphs, charts, and heat maps.
The insights module adds an extra data into the logic or simply just asking a question of it in a simple ‘Google-like’ manor that then presents you with a visual answer (with the data to back it up) to your question almost immediately. But if you need detailed information once you’ve identified an issue, you can still delve deep into reports to help identify patterns.
Scoreboards and Performance Metrics
TN360 includes driver scorecards to gamify performance and help foster a culture of safety and accountability. Drivers can see how they rank in terms of safety and performance metrics, encouraging friendly competition and continuous improvement. This can help the business incentivise either through monetary bonuses for improved performance or use of favourite vehicle.
You can set thresholds and a score against each for a range of performance and safety metrics, real-time data is benchmarked to help identify problem behaviour and provides a way to encourage drivers to improve on their own.
Video Integration: Seeing Is Believing
One of the biggest advantages of video telematics is the ability to see what’s happening on the road. When an event is flagged, like a near miss or sudden stop, the linked video footage provides visual proof and context. The driver can press the emergency record button which will trigger the system to download the footage and create an alert.
The back-office team can view footage from that determined time to clarity what happened instead of relying hearsay to refute not-at-fault incidents or even identify false positives. Fleet managers can review the exact moment an incident occurred, understand the circumstances, and make informed decisions about training or disciplinary actions.
Smarter Fleets Through Timely Data
Fleet management is based on necessity, built on the requirements of businesses in the industry driving innovation. While a dot on a map was considered futuristic, today, fleet operators need more information about their business to provide the utmost service to their customers. It’s about understanding what’s happening on the road, figuring the reasons why, and how it can be remedied.
But the key is turning data into insight. Without interpretation, all the footage and numbers in the world won’t improve your fleet’s safety or efficiency. You may as well be speaking a different language. With video telematics and a fleet management solution, you get a clear, real-time picture of your operations that empowers you to make faster, smarter decisions.