TRANSPORTATION

Transportation, fleet tracking and telematics is a large, growing segment for M2M technology and the internet of things. Fleetmatics provides cities, local and state governments and businesses with fleet management services through its technology platform that enables smart tracking of an entire fleet of hundreds or even thousands of vehicles. Coupled with, route taken, and any stops made Fuel consumed. This vastly improves accountability and cost savings.

Consider the case of a sleepy driver who begins to nod off and his truck swerves, if only briefly, into the oncoming lane. As the incident occurs, an alert sounds at the trucking company’s monitoring station.

The driver is contacted and instructed to get off the road for the night. Fleetmatics works with customers to develop monitoring systems like these used by transportation companies to dramatically improve safety and enhance productivity.