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Staying Alert to Fatigue Driving

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Driver faces a lot of driving environment, external and internal. Unsafe factors easily lead to traffic accidents, such as fatigue driving. To cut down the fatigue driving risk, the drivers should make sure to have enough sleeping time and take a good rest after a long time driving. At the same time, drivers can use some tools to reduce the dangers. Telematics and electronic logging devices (ELDs) can help improve road safety. The connected car is more than tracking location. Telematics solution is able to provide information for pre-route planning for adapting to different driving environments. Also, Fleet telematics and electronic logging devices (ELDs) can record driving habits, which help fleet manager arrange the corresponding route and training solutions for drivers. Another safety benefit from telematics is to keep vehicles in proper conditions. The solution connects to the engine computer help monitor vehicle healthy conditions. It can send out maintenance alerts accor...

GPS Tracker can Improve your Maintenance Planning

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Regular vehicle maintenance is vital for fleet management. Without proper maintenance, your vehicle will be a lot more likely to be prone to more serious problems in the future that could lead to you being greatly out of pocket. With the help of routine maintenance, the driving risk can be greatly cut down and your driving experience can be improved drastically. It is difficult for fleet manager to arrange vehicle maintenance on regular basis. However, fleet manager earns money from every minute vehicle running on the road. Then, how to optimize routine maintenance. Here come some tips.  Set up a maintenance team  It is quite common that vehicle drivers think they are only responsible for driving and maintenance is none of their business. In this condition, fleet manager should enhance their maintenance awareness. However, if you have a large fleet, you could set up a maintenance team. The cost of hiring responsible maintenance team is lower than that of sending to mai...

Running Fleet Management Software with Concox

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Fleet management software is of importance in the auto industry, which helps save money and time for many companies. However, there are plenty of improvements that can be made to better suit fleet businesses. That’s what Concox will discuss here—ways that fleet management software is making great strides by innovative and stable technology and ideological advancements, allowing for both fleets and businesses to grow in tandem.  Predictive Maintenance  With the popular spread of IoT sensors and equipment, predictive maintenance is one of the hottest topics in the IoT industry. Equipped with onboard sensors and Can-Bus,fleet manager can predict when to maintenance by collecting data and then schedule downtime to get maintenance, avoiding the unnecessary stop due to sudden breakdown. What’s more, the life-cycles of both vehicles and technological systems could be extended significantly through strategically scheduled downtime. The cost of maintenance and replacement of eq...

Cold Chain Logistics Management Tracking with Concox

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The global cold chain market is estimated at USD147.55 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach at a CAGR of 15.0% from 2018-2025. The increase of global connected device and refrigerated warehouse automation are stimulating the industry growth target forecast. The cold chain solution requirement is increasing because of the expanding from the organized retail stores in emerging economies. In addition, trade liberalization, government’s effort on reducing waste food are also pushing this demand. Cold chain solution aims to provide ideal transportation and storage condition for temperature-sensitive products. Customers incline to choose perishable products, which distinctly different from previous long-storage products but request fast delivery at the same time. The rising trend of purchasing perishable products online brings new opportunities and challenges. The innovation cold chain solution needs to enable last-mile delivery, warehouse storage automation management, low-cost and...

Building Smart Logistics Tracking Solution with Concox

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The container is a standard good loading media in transportation and plays a very important role in logistics of the international trading. But the shipper and the shipping companies face a series of problems in cargo tracking and management. For example, the goods get deteriorated, damaged or even lost during the transportation; it’s difficult to track the container position and estimate the time of arrival, the containers are complicated to dispatch and control, etc. To facilitate a more convenient management for shippers and shipping companies, Concox developed an intelligent containers management solution with the GPS + GSM/WCDMA mobile network technology. Our device can detect the installation and removing status, the shipper and consignee can be notified in real time when the container is loading or discharging. Also, our tracking unit can detect environmental data inside the container such as temperature, humidity, pressure, altitude, etc. And get alert if the valued exceed ...

Does a real-time gps tracking device work

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GPS Solution combine sophisticated GPS tracking technology with flexible, advanced mapping and reporting software. A GPS-enabled vehicle tracking device is installed on each vehicle to collect and transmit tracking data via a cellular or satellite network, whichever works best for your operations. The device then delivers the data to the  gps platform  hosted application, you can access through the web at any time. You receive real-time vehicle tracking updates, including location, direction, speed, idle time, start/stop and more allowing you to manage a tighter schedule and a more efficient fleet.There are several products in the market which uses A-GPS to feed in live details of your vehicle to you. These devices can be simple tracking devices to those which can perform multiple activities (sophistication = price) from sending texts\emails or alert you thru an app on your cellular phone\alert police by sharing coordinates once it crosses a programmed geofence etc. Though ...

where you should place your GPS Tracking Device

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The GPS (Global Positioning System) technology has developed a long history from its very beginning in early 70’s. According to Allied Business Intelligence Research, GPS market will be worth over $2 billion by 2021. GPS devices and apps are becoming widely use nowadays, since we are using this technology senselessly in many areas, like fleet management, driving and car navigation, GPS-based emergency response system, GPS tracking devices for kids, pets and the elderly and some other areas. GPS Tracking Device  can be used for many different purposes in many ways. No matter to track the kids, the elderly or the one who need special care for peace in mind, to use Vehicle GPS Tracking Device for fleet management then enhance efficiency, or to ensure security in outside for outdoor enthusiast with GPS Tracking Devices For People, the placement of the device is an essential to create a good working situation of tracking system to detect movement on web in real time. If you have an...