Fleet Management Checklist

Many aspects of our lives are available on the Internet. Even a black box in our new car--or event data recorder as they are called--is ready and willing to spill the beans on our driving habits.

Huffman Trucking plans to track the vehicles with tracking devices. The tracking devices enables the organization to measure, analyze freight delivery, and performances. The tracking device ensures accurate delivery time, and tracking shipments on the way. The database at Huffman Trucking will allow capturing, and maintaining the information at its four locations. The database will also support the workers by providing the ability to track the trucks like when a truck requires maintenance work. The database can also capture the information generated from tracking devices and can help drivers to complete tasks on time. Huffman Trucking can make use of distance information and distribution schedule to guarantee the shipments. The trucks can have scheduled maintenance and can avoid problems due to non-maintenance. The database will help in maintaining records, inventory information, and vendor related ordering at appropriate time. Huffman Trucking plans to develop an information system, and database that suffice the requirements.

It's a pleasant day. You get in your car and drive happily down the road. Suddenly, the check engine light comes on. A big sigh escapes your lips because you imagine that this is a costly problem that is just waiting to happen. Surprisingly, a few drivers choose to ignore the check engine light warning. This could end up costing them more money in the long run, and prove dangerous. When the check engine light comes on, it is trying to tell you that something is malfunctioning within the cars system.

Today’s day and age maps have basically have been replaced by the technology of global positioning systems with allows for a little safer driving due to the driver is not trying to read a map when they are operating their vehicles but with the new technology comes new problems. This new system can allow the driver to fallow a voice but when the system is not up to date it cause drivers to have to make quick lane changes and exiting that is making them drive in a reckless manner. Most of the Systems are distracting because people will start driving they then turn on the system and try to input the address they need to get to which sometimes involves leaning in a distracting way and also taking their eyes of the road and mind on a different matter.( AwartickPublished) during the new age of occupations companies have now put computers in the cars to help people with all that needs to get finished on time and to allow to finish the jobs they are required to do, this is many seen in government vehicles

How would you feel about having a tool that can increase your vehicle performance? Today, automakers manufacturer cars with a great amount of hidden power and potential, which lead to the design of a product call Gen-Tune. Gen-Tune is a graphical user interface that allows a specific community of car owners to modify the engine control unit for performance. The hardware and software was designed to increase horsepower and torque from factory made vehicles. The tool connects to the OBD2 diagnostic port, then via USB to your PC. Once connected the tool downloads the firmware off the engine control unit and displays it in a user friendly format. Gen-Tune gives the user the ability to modify the engine control unit, data log sensors, real-time tuning, and clear diagnostic trouble codes.

Check Engine Light – All new models are equipped with the OBD-II or On Board Diagnostics 2. This system connects to all sensors in your vehicle including the engine fuel, and emissions. Once the check engine light is blinking, it can mean different things.

Activity Logger is a device that can be installed in the vehicle to monitor the operation and condition of the vehicle using the connected mobile application or a device. It is difficult to note the monitor the vehicle's speed, mileage, fuel reading everything. Even it is difficult to note the reading, this might cause some errors which made manual entry by humans. So, activity logger avoids these errors. This device transmits the information about the vehicle to any connected device like mobile or a computer. This device can monitor the condition of the vehicle such as the fluid levels of the vehicle such as oil, brake, fluid levels, coolant and easily allows whether or not the vehicle is involved in the collision can be monitored by the activity

For most people driving a vehicle is a normal and every day process. On any given day driving in city or town traffic one can experience a number of noises by either their own of somebody else’s vehicle. Car repair can be very expensive, and lately, do-it-yourself projects are very popular. In today’s Internet world, the driver has an option to explore the World Wide Web for information on symptoms, problems, and, depending on the service, the repair procedure.

The user of the app can also check the availability of any of the parking spaces on campus and then find the best lot that has an open parking spot. Also when they are driving by other lots, if they notice something different or see an empty spot, they can update the report after finding a spot and turning their car off. The user also has the ability to allow the application access to his/her current location, in order to get immediate updates as soon as he/she arrives on campus. These notifications can be through text banners, but also through audio notifications as well. With this feature the user can get audio updates without having to look down at their phone while they are driving.

Receive near real-time alerts when machinery is driven too quickly, when someone enters a restricted area or employees approach an area where there have been recent thefts

Currently systems like on star can detect when a car check engine lights on or is idle, so adoption of this technology to work to better allow for servicing of vehicles could be a game changer. The value provided from being able to link auto mechanics and vehicle repair specialist from all over using communication technology life wifi to read what’s going on within a car could be marked as a time saving tool as well as a method of protection of consumer fraud. For example, let say I have my car diagnosed and run a scan where I would link my phone to the car and some manufacturer’s hotspot that could give me a complete diagnosis of my vehicles damage and a listing of service providers available.

This helps reward safe drivers with customized pricing and lower premiums. Interestingly, many drivers have also admitted to reviewing their driving style and vehicle maintenance on receiving telematics reports from their insurers – a win-win situation for the insurer and the insured.

Fleet management is the management of a company's transportation fleet. Fleet management includes commercial motor vehicles such as cars, vans and trucks, as well as rail cars. Fleet (vehicle) management can include a range of functions, such as vehicle financing, vehicle maintenance, vehicle telemetric (tracking and diagnostics), driver management, speed management, fuel management and health and safety management. Fleet Management is a function which allows companies which rely on transportation in their business to remove or minimize the risks associated with vehicle investment, improving efficiency, productivity and reducing their overall transportation and staff costs, providing 100% compliance with government

The first implementation for vehicle tracking system was in the shipping industry because it is a vital need to know where each vessel was at any given time. These days, however, with different types of technology growing at a wide space, tracking and display vehicle locations in real time uses automated vehicle tracking system. (SeokJu et all,2014)

Abstract-This paper presents review on the accident detection techniques and some future possibilities in this field. Now-a-days lots of accidents happen on highways due to increase in traffic and also due to rash driving of the drivers. And in many situations the family members or the ambulance and police authority is not informed in time. This result in delaying the help reached to the person suffered due to accident.Road accidents constitute the major part of the accident .The purpose of the project is to find the vehicle where it is and locate the vehicle by means of sending a message using a system which is placed inside of vehicle system Most of the times we may not be able to find accident location because we don’t know where accident will happen. Our project Real Time Vehicle Tracking and Accident Detection with GPS is designed to avoid such situations.