Using Minorplanet Vehicle Management Information (VMI™) systems you can monitor vehicle activity, plan efficient routes and work schedules, verify hours worked, provide proof of service and much more.
Combining GPS and GPRS technology, Minorplanet provide vehicle tracking solutions to help companies manage their fleets beyond the limitations of simply locating vehicles on a map. As one of the few organisations to offer both web based and customer hosted solutions, Minorplanet provide complete end-to-end solutions.
Minorplanet have successfully implemented fleet tracking and management solutions to thousands of companies worldwide, across all market sectors and have saved our customers millions of pounds through effective fleet management.
Our market leading vehicle tracking solutions deliver high level functionality and detailed management information, helping you to...
- Plan the most efficient routes, shortening journey times and reducing fuel consumption
- Identify unauthorised private mileage and excessive idling
- Verify driver working hours
- Re-direct drivers in real-time or re-route if lost or diverted
- Locate stolen vehicles immediately using real-time tracking
- Identifying driving styles to minimise accident liability, reduce fuel consumption and lower insurance premiums
- Reduce fuel consumption by monitoring harsh acceleration, heavy breaking and hard cornering
- Record precise vehicle information including speed, direction, fuel usage and vehicle diagnostics
- Ensure compliance with the Working Time Directive and Duty of Care legislation
- Provide accurate estimated arrival times
- Track valuable or high risk consignments
- Reduced wage and overtime claims
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 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 their 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 tracking 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 tracking 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 you to track, monitor and access real-time and historic fleet 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 fleet 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 and your drivers time and money.
Identify trends, analyse costs and highlight any 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)
The latest generation vehicle tracking device offering in-vehicle communications.
The Communications Hub is the latest generation 'vehicle tracking device' or 'Data Collection Unit' (DCU). It provides a number of innovative features including internet and email access, hands-free voice communication 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 Communications Hub has ‘over-air’ fault diagnosis, providing firmware and configuration checks managed by a central Minorplanet server.
- Internal battery back-up
- IP pass-through connectivity
- Voice hands-free port
- Built-in accelerometer
- Second by second Incident Buffer
- CANbus interface
- 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
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.
Why connect to CANbus?
The VMIgreenlight® Communications Hub can be connected to a vehicle’s Engine Control Unit (ECU) via CANbus (Controller Area Network bus) and provide detailed vehicle information back to fleet managers.
This allows accurate vehicle data to be captured to help with driver behaviour and vehicle monitoring, cost control and operational efficiency.
Data recorded can include:
- Fuel usage
- MPG
- Use of brake and number of brake applications
- Use of clutch and gear changes
- Use of auxiliary equipment (Power Take Off)
- Fuel usage during vehicle idling
- Extended fleet management information
- Accurate fuel usage
- Maintenance cost
- Reduction in unplanned downtime
- Identifying bad driving habits
- 6-16% reduction in fuel usage
- 2-10% reduction in operational costs
- ROI within 6-12 months
VMIgreenlight® provides highly informative and easy to understand reports that are designed to save you and your drivers' time and money.
Identify trends, analyse costs and highlight any 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)
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.
Vehicle tracking systems to help companies cut costs through efficient fleet management
Offering ease of use and fleet management beyond simple 'track-and-trace', VMIgreenlight® has proven to help customers increase efficiency, improve productivity and increase profit; providing real return on investment.
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