Public SectorLeeds Teaching hospital has saved £265,000 over 12 months on a fleet of 50 vehicles.
The hospital has also reduced its CO2 emissions by over 40 tonnes in the same period. Minorplanet has a strong pedigree in the public sector, with over 30 major accounts in Local Government, NHS, Universities and Housing Associations. As YPO’s sole telematics supplier and market leader in vehicle tracking, Minorplanet Systems has a wide range of innovative fleet management solutions for public sector customers. View the full Leeds Teaching Hospital news article here. Be it for waste management, refuse collection, non-emergency supplies, local authorities, police, NHS, fire service, housing associations or cleansing services, VMIgreenlight® provides fleet management solutions to improve efficiency and maintain quality of service and even increase productivity. All products have been developed in-house and have been tested extensively before introduction to the market. Minorplanet offers Public Sector organisations a complete end-to-end solution and enhanced UK-wide technical and service support. All contracts are fully EU tendering compliant, allowing customers to benefit from further cost efficiencies by not having to negotiate a formal tender themselves. If there’s a request from any area of our organisation for an additional vehicle, before making that capital expenditure we can examine the usage of all our vehicles, identify one that is not fully utilised, and that can be redeployed to save the purchase or leasing expenditure on obtaining a new vehicle.
Gentoo To see how our customers have benefited, please visit our Testimonials section. The benefits of integrating Minorplanet’s VMIgreenlight® system into your business include: - Accurate recording of working hours often brings savings of 2-4 hours wages per person per month, typically saving £25-£50 each month
- Increased fuel economy - vehicles can use up to 25% more fuel driving at 80 mph rather than 70 mph
- Improved driver behaviour - incorrect driver actions are a factor in 95% of all motor vehicle collisions,
poor driver behaviour can increase fuel consumption by 17%, and has an adverse impact on vehicle wear and tear - Drivers use less fuel by selecting a higher gear earlier, for example at 37mph in 5th gear approx. 25% less fuel is used than in 3rd gear
- Reduced vehicle idling - an idling vehicle burns at least 1/10th of a litre of fuel every ten minutes
- Reduced vehicle down-time - savings of up to 15% on fuel consumption are gained by ensuring that service schedules are adhered to
- Ensure optimal vehicle downtime reducing cost of spot hire, lost business and overtime payment
- Improved service planning helps to level out seasonal business peaks and troughs
- Improved planning, scheduling and routing helps to increase operational productivity by up to 15%
- Efficient route planning contributes to fuel savings of up to 2 litres per vehicle, per day
Minorplanet vehicle tracking systems deliver real cost savings to fleets of any size, significantly reducing running costs and increasing profits by providing complete fleet management at your fingertips. Complete fleet management at your fingertips. - Identifying the location of drivers
- Escalating overtime claims
- Manual monitoring and checking of timesheets
- Compliance with legislation
- Rising fuel costs
- Maintaining and improving customer service
- Ensuring security of assets
- Keeping contact with mobile workers
- Safety of mobile workers
 Successful fleet management goes beyond knowing where your vehicles are now and where they have been. It encompasses the ability to access detailed management information to plan the future success of your business. VMIgreenlight® uses the most sophisticated tracking software available to help businesses of all sizes reduce fleet running costs and increase company productivity. It is the easiest to use, feature-rich system available on the market today. It gives users the capability to track and monitor vehicles' locations, history and performance in real-time, as well as the ability to efficiently plan and set routes with satellite navigation technology. VMIgreenlight® is available as a web-based system which is ideal for organisations that do not wish to host and manage their own computer hardware and prefer to access the system via the internet. VMIgreenlight® is also available as a self-hosted system which is ideal for those companies that wish to store and manage their own data.  Maptrack is the main application of VMIgreenlight®. It allows real-time traking, monitoing and provides historic fleet management information, down to street level mapping. The simplicity and high level of detail makes the system instantly understandable and the ability to see individual vehicles, groups or your entire fleet on mapping quality unrivalled in the telematics industry means you can provide accurate information to your drivers and customers. Playback allows you to replay vehicle activities by simply selecting the date and time in history. The system will show you the exact route your vehicles took and it can even identify the speed the vehicle was travelling and how many times a particular vehicle stopped. The vehicle journey can be replayed and illustrated using a 'snail-trail' which allows you to click on specific points of the journey to identify what happened. You can replay the movements of any vehicle at a speed and time to suit you.  VMIgreenlight® Anywhere allows access to live vehicle tracking and reporting from any computer with an internet connection. It is a simple and easy to use option for the mobile fleet manager wanting to check on the status of vehicles on the move.  VMIgreenlight® provides highly informative and easy to understand fleet management reports that are designed to save you time and money. Identify trends, analyse costs and highlight exceptions. Reports can be set up to be emailed to an individual or group of recipients on any set day and time each week providing powerful information at the touch of a button. All fleet management reports can be output in one of the following formats... - DOC :: (Microsoft Word Document)
- PDF :: (Portable Document Format)
- RTF :: (Rich Text Format)
- XLS :: (Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet)
 A powerful, interactive means of monitoring operational performance... Colour coded indicators are used to show areas of good or bad performance, or non-compliance against Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). Performance Manager can be used to show instantly how far each vehicle has travelled, helping to identify the actual hours worked, fuel used and the number of stops made. The fleet manager can highlight issues to be used for fleet analysis, business planning and vehicle optimisation.  The latest generation vehicle tracking device offering in-vehicle communications. The latest generation vehicle tracking device, the Communications Hub, or 'Data Collection Unit' (DCU) from Minorplanet provides a number of innovative features including internet and email access, hands-free phone and the ability to integrate with other applications and technologies through ‘IP pass-through’. Keeping vehicles on the road is critical to any organisation involved in fleet management and therefore reliability is a primary consideration. The tracking device has ‘over-air’ fault diagnosis, providing firmware and configuration checks managed by a central Minorplanet server. - No loss of data
- Internet or intranet access on the move
- Hands-free phone using the same SIM card
- Monitor and modify driving styles
- Accurate recording of fuel usage and mileage
- Quick and easy to install causing minimal vehicle down-time for fitting
- Internal battery back-up
- IP pass-through connectivity
- Voice hands-free port
- Built-in accelerometer
- Second by second Incident Buffer
- CANbus interface
 Bringing the office to your vehicles. Together with the Communications Hub, the latest generation vehicle tracking device, the vCom provides the functionality of a mobile PC and router allowing near limitless connectivity of peripheral devices and software options. The vCom provides drivers with the ability to access company intranet sites and external websites. Drivers can access a world of information via the internet and more specific company resources without the need to return to the office. The vCom is fully configurable and access can be restricted to corporate intranet sites or specific websites where required; alternatively unrestricted access can be allowed giving you choice, flexibility and control.  Control over the numbers called, control over cost. The Minorplanet Voice Dialler uses the VMIgreenlight® communications hub to deliver hands-free voice communication to and from the vehicle. Consisting of a keypad, microphone and amplified speaker the dialler is a powerful addition to the Minorplanet peripheral range of products. In using the same SIM as the GPS tracking device, line rental is kept to a minimum and billing is simplified by using preset numbers for outgoing calls and an ‘allowed’ list for incoming numbers.  Enables data exchange between VMIgreenlight® and almost any other application If you have other back-office systems, and have ever thought ‘if only I could see my vehicle, journey and location data in...’ then it is worth considering the VMIgreenlight® API. What does the VMIgreenlight® API mean to you?
API stands for Application Programming Interface. An API is exactly what its name suggests – an interface or set of instructions that allow two different applications to interact and share information. An API provides the ability to share data across different platforms. The VMIgreenlight® API has been developed to allow any data presented in VMIgreenlight® to be accessible to other applications you may already have using standard internet technologies. The VMIgreenlight® API provides a means of data sharing between VMIgreenlight® and almost any other application, the end result appearing seamless to the you, the user. - Share information between new or legacy systems
- No need to develop information applications from scratch as API components can be used together
- Enhance a field-tested and proven product as needed to reflect unique and changing requirements
- Integrate different applications across different platforms so the end result appears seamless to the end user(s)
- Leverage the development costs of existing systems by interfacing them with VMIgreenlight®
- Integrate key VMIgreenlight® data into dynamic intranet / extranet delivery applications, with bespoke query and reporting options.
- An industry standard means for systems developers to quickly gain access to available data
- Enables data exchange, between VMIgreenlight® and almost any other application
- Interrogate the hosted database in a secure manner without jeopardising data integrity
- Create a bespoke, interactive user interface or web page to view and manage data
- Create a secure automated process running in the background that provides a constant data feed from VMIgreenlight® to another database or application.
Imagine if you could tie your staffing cost data to hours worked and distance travelled data to scheduling... You would have a payroll-to-revenue metric and a planned vs. actual utilisation metric that could inform critical staffing and planning decisions. The API interface removes the constraints of a standard User Interface, allowing you to define the data that you wish to extract. All this is done over the Internet using Secure Socket Layer (SSL - the same security used by banks and e-commerce businesses). Once the necessary interface programming work has been defined and developed, you can use the API to facilitiate your data management and reuse across systems in a number of ways. For example, you might want to simply extract data on an ad-hoc basis for import into another system as it is needed. You might want to develop an automatic update program that extracts data on a regular basis (for example; minute-by-minute) and then writes it to the database of another application.  Every employer has ‘Duty of Care’ obligations to meet in respect of the welfare of employees whilst at work. Using telematics, you can monitor vehicle activity in real-time as well as access vehicle management information reports to verify hours worked, analyse costs, plan the best routes, provide proof of service, monitor performance, identify trends and improve productivity. VMIgreenlight® is an essential tool for fleet operators as it helps to address Duty of Care issues including: - Driver behaviour and liability
- Working Time Directive compliance
- Security
- Vehicle maintenance
Download Duty of Care brochure Read more  Provides lone workers in vulnerable mobile situations with the ability to summon assistance. Invaluable for employees who work remotely or without close supervision. The alarm is ideal for applications where mobile workers have to work alone or in potentially risky situations, away from their fixed
base. For example, staff working on construction, plant installation, maintenance, service, mobile vehicle recovery, night workers, mobile public sector employees, sales representatives, taxi drivers and other personnel visiting domestic or commercial premises. Simultaneous pressing of the two buttons activates the alarm, as does a sharp pull on the lanyard. The break-away neck strap is an added safety feature. When an alarm event signal is received from the vehicle, it triggers an alert in the VMIgreenlight® system giving the identity and location of the person who triggered the alarm, allowing action to be taken.  Real-time tracking, monitoring and access to detailed fleet management reports. Monitor driving behaviour and identify speeding trends for the selected vehicle or driver. For the specified date range, you can view the total travelling time, distance travelled, total idling time, number of speeding events, the distance travelled whilst speeding (in miles or km and percentage). This is useful to identify speeding trends per driver or vehicle and you can use this report to compare driver or vehicle behaviour.  Minorplanet and Bluefin partnership Insurers continually strive to find the means to reduce the number and severity of claims by improving the insurance risk profile of the fleets they insure. Risk Management is the key to achieving this objective. Using Minorplanet vehicle tracking to generate an accurate driver performance feed, it is possible to build a proactive driver performance history that can direct the attention of fleet managers to poor driving behaviours and therefore provide an opportunity to manage them. |
