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IoT Remote Monitoring and Management Solutions for Businesses

Explore the benefits of IoT remote monitoring and IoT management solutions for businesses. Learn how to control and monitor your IoT devices

📡 IoT Remote Monitoring and Management: Enhance Your Business Operations In the fast-paced digital landscape of 2025, IoT remote monitoring and management is transforming how businesses operate. This insightful blog explores how real-time data, intelligent automation, and cloud-enabled visibility are driving smarter decisions across industries like manufacturing, utilities, logistics, and healthcare.

🔍 What You’ll Discover: ✅ How remote monitoring minimizes downtime and reduces operational costs 📊 The value of centralized dashboards for asset tracking, machine health, and energy usage ⚙️ Real-world applications in predictive maintenance, utility management, and smart warehousing 🌐 How IoT systems improve scalability, security, and compliance 📈 Business benefits of cloud-native management platforms and edge computing 🛠️ Future trends including AI-enhanced remote operations, 5G integration, and autonomous control

💡 Whether you're managing complex facilities or distributed assets, this blog shows how IoT remote monitoring and management enables agility, efficiency, and continuous optimization.

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Asset Tracking System for Fleet Management: Optimizing Vehicle Performance

Fleet management today is not just about keeping vehicles on the road — it’s about knowing where every asset is, understanding how vehicles perform, and making smarter decisions that save time and money. This is where an Asset Tracking System comes in. Designed to offer real-time insights, these systems help fleet managers track vehicles, monitor performance, and reduce operational costs.

AIDC Technologies India, a trusted name in automatic identification and data capture solutions, is at the forefront of this transformation. By providing advanced Asset Tracking Systems, AIDC helps businesses manage their fleets more efficiently and keep their operations ahead of the competition.

AIDC Technologies India: Driving Fleet Efficiency through Smart Asset Tracking

AIDC Technologies India understands that every fleet is different. Some fleets manage hundreds of trucks across the country, while others focus on local deliveries or specialized vehicles. To meet these unique needs, AIDC offers tailored Asset Tracking Systems that fit fleets of any size.

These solutions use technologies like GPS, RFID, and advanced software to keep managers informed about the real-time location, speed, and route history of every vehicle. By providing a clear view of fleet activity, AIDC’s systems help reduce fuel costs, avoid unnecessary trips, and improve driver accountability.

Real-Time Vehicle Tracking: AIDC’s Edge in Fleet Visibility

One of the standout features of an Asset Tracking System is real-time location tracking. AIDC Technologies India designs systems that allow managers to see exactly where each vehicle is at any given moment. This helps dispatchers respond quickly to new delivery requests, reroute vehicles to avoid traffic, and keep customers updated on delivery times.

Beyond just tracking, AIDC’s solutions store location data that can be analyzed later. Managers can identify frequently used routes, monitor time spent at delivery sites, and spot patterns that might reveal inefficiencies. This level of visibility is key to keeping fleets running smoothly and reducing downtime.

Enhancing Vehicle Health: Preventive Maintenance with AIDC Asset Tracking

A well-maintained fleet performs better and lasts longer. AIDC Technologies India goes beyond location tracking by offering Asset Tracking Systems that monitor vehicle health indicators. This includes engine hours, mileage, and diagnostic alerts.

By tracking these details, managers can plan preventive maintenance instead of reacting to unexpected breakdowns. For example, when a vehicle hits a certain mileage or engine hour threshold, the system can automatically schedule maintenance reminders. This proactive approach keeps vehicles on the road longer and reduces costly repairs.

Turning Data into Action: Fleet Insights Powered by AIDC Technologies

Raw data alone doesn’t add value until it’s transformed into useful insights. AIDC Technologies India’s Asset Tracking Systems come with easy-to-use dashboards and reporting tools that help managers make sense of the data.

For instance, managers can analyze fuel consumption trends, spot underperforming vehicles, and identify drivers who frequently exceed speed limits. This data-driven approach empowers fleet owners to make decisions that save money, improve safety, and enhance overall performance.

With AIDC’s systems, it’s not just about knowing where vehicles are — it’s about understanding how to run a fleet better.

Boosting Safety and Compliance: Secure Fleet Management with AIDC

Safety is a top priority for any fleet, and compliance with regulations is essential to avoid fines and reputational damage. AIDC Technologies India designs Asset Tracking Systems that support both.

By tracking driver behavior, such as speeding, harsh braking, and rapid acceleration, managers can coach drivers to adopt safer habits. The system can also keep records required for compliance with transportation regulations, like electronic logging of driving hours.

This focus on safety and compliance not only protects assets but also contributes to lower insurance costs and improved trust with clients.

Partner with AIDC India for Smarter Asset Tracking Solutions

The world of fleet management is evolving, and businesses that invest in modern tools will stay ahead. An Asset Tracking System from AIDC Technologies India is more than just a location tracker — it’s a complete solution to help fleets become safer, more efficient, and more cost-effective.

AIDC Technologies India has decades of experience delivering advanced identification and tracking technologies across industries. Their team understands the unique challenges of fleet management and works closely with clients to design solutions that match specific needs.

Whether you manage a small delivery fleet or a large national operation, AIDC can help you gain full visibility, reduce costs, and improve vehicle performance.

Ready to make your fleet smarter? Contact AIDC Technologies India today and discover how an Asset Tracking System can transform your business.

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5 pro tips for managing your fleet of light vehicles

In the third of this five-part blog on how to manage your physical assets effectively, we explore and provide tips on what it takes to perform best practice fleet management for light vehicles, optimise those costly and laborious tasks and gain full control of your drivers and fleet performance.

A productivity revolution is brewing within the fleet industry. The development of faster, better, and more sophisticated fleet management systems that use telematics and IoT technologies, coupled by a surge of increasingly powerful driver apps and the ever-widening preference of mobile technology will serve as the primary medium drivers are using to fulfil their daily fleet tasks. The fleet managers of tomorrow will marvel how we were able to accomplish what we did with the primitive tools of our era.

With all of this astounding technology advancing within fleet, it becomes almost redundant without a fleet strategy, as would a business starting up without a business plan!

Smart fleet management systems are the missing link to a fleet strategy as the adoption of next generation systems that drive automation and connect assets in the fleet promise to ensure fleets are smarter, better informed and better equipped to be adaptable to strategic and financial needs of the fleet.

Tip 1 - Define your fleet strategy

An effective fleet strategy is important as it defines an organisation’s approach to fleet management. To develop a genuinely effective vision for a fleet, the fleet management strategy must link in with an organisation’s other strategic priorities. The strategy must be considered as part of the organisation’s overall approach to asset management and should also link in with environmental aims.

A fleet strategy is a clearly written document that identifies the business need for the fleet, helps secure a fleet that is fit for purpose and sets out how the organisation intends to manage its fleet in the future.

The fleet strategy is underpinned by a fleet policy which is a document simply to put a corporately-agreed infrastructure in place that covers as many of the fleet strategy areas as possible, from setting out the objectives of the policy through to guidelines and rules which apply to the driver population. A fleet policy will only work in practice if there is support for it within your organisation, so buy-in from stakeholders from the very start and throughout the process of its production is imperative.

Vehicle drivers, passengers and other users can offer a broad perspective on the strategic direction of fleet management. Consultation with these groups of users will contribute to a strategy being well informed.

Tip 2 - Automate tasks

Fleet administration is a very busy place to be in, and the amount of time and cost it adorbs is typically in the top three priorities of a fleet manager in terms of efficiency improvements. The wide variety of tasks associated with the day to day running of the fleet such as paperwork, compliance checking, managing fines, tax and MOT duties, invoicing costs with suppliers, analysis of data for trends and costs is critical to the operation of the fleet.

Automating tasks is a highly beneficial area to consider when selecting a fleet management system and the functionality and capability they offer. Interfacing or Application Programming Interfaces (API’s) help to fetch and return data in real-time with other data sources such as suppliers systems or other internal systems (e.g. HR for driver information) allowing you to increase internal efficiency through quicker integration and reusability.

For example, if for instance you want to analyse supplier data from fuel cards, creating an API with the fuel supplier or importing data from the fuel card company can allow your fleet management system to automatically compare mileage and fuel consumption for any particular vehicle in the fleet against the fuel card transactions to highlight any anomalies and potential invoicing cost errors. This saves time and overspend. In turn, this method can be used for your leasing contracts with leasing suppliers. In this example, you could compare supplier offers prior to approving any new leased car requests or renewals to ensure that you are selecting the most competitive offer against cost, term duration and any hidden terms and conditions that perhaps would not be preferential to your company's fleet policy.

Using automated workflows drives an organisation to become more efficient by helping remove wastage, such as becoming paperless, cuts out unnecessary work like duplicated data entries, better use of human resources which overall saves money and will help an organisation to grow and improve.

Workflows also achieve this by identifying and removing the unnecessary steps/processes within any task. Modifying the order of the steps can make the process more efficient. For example, some steps could run simultaneously as opposed to sequentially. Tasks can be assigned to the people with appropriate skills to perform the task, rather than allocating to anyone who needs work to do avoiding compromising quality. Fleet managers can concentrate on strategic business oriented activities, rather than the day to day operational tasks, such as task allocation and monitoring progress.

Workflows can answer questions like: What actually needs to be done?, Who am I doing this task for?, How long should I take to perform this task?, Who else is involved in the process?, What will happen after I action this? Workflows improve visibility by tracking and allowing a staff member to instantly check the status of an item/task. It allows the key people to see the critical processes at every point, identifying problems, bottlenecks and monitor end to end performance throughout.

In addition to workflows, collaboration features are key to gelling all the communication together. Collaboration is the experience that integrates people, processes, and technology and improves the connections between people and the information they need to share to produce results.

Collaborative fleet management software works by offering a range of extended features such as access anywhere at anytime, apps for mobile workers and suppliers to integrate in near real-time, optimised for a range of devices like smartphones and tablets, direct apps access from suppliers or using real-time alerts and notifications to control tasks, highlight concerns, errors and missed events.

Tip 3 - Connect your vehicles

This is 2015. Isn't it time your car was as smart as your phone? Actually, it is. In today's economic climate and with rising fuel prices, businesses are working hard to improve processes and cut waste in any way they can. For example, fleet management On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) connected systems are plug-and-play and affordable solutions to give you the information you need to make informed decisions in near real-time and improve the efficiency of your fleet, saving time, fuel and money whilst increasing customer satisfaction.

Vehicles in your fleet generate massive amounts of data and most of us don't realise this potential. With the right OBD hardware and accompanying apps, you can use that data to monitor and save fuel, locate vehicles in your fleet, know when vehicles are being used and who is using them and even diagnose those annoying dashboard engine warning lights.

In addition to saving money on fuel costs, OBD dongles let you monitor the health of a vehicle. Using OBD dongles, you will be immediately notified if a vehicle has an engine problem. This allows you to fix only vehicles in need of repair instead of wasting time adhering to rigid maintenance schedules. This ensures that fleet managers are aware of any problems so they can assist drivers by making sure they take the necessary actions before any damage is done and avoids unnecessary repair costs.

So in summary, connecting the vehicles in your fleet to a smart fleet management system delivers the following benefits:

Better fuel economy

Monitor mileage and optimise leasing contracts

Knowledge of where your vehicles are at all times

Remotely diagnose and decode engine management warning lights

Identify where and when inefficiencies occur within a fleet

Efficient routing for faster delivery and response time

Optimised customer service

Lower vehicle maintenance

Loss prevention of vehicles and assets

Improve driver behaviour

Assist drivers when needed

Tip 4 - Monitor driver behaviour

Driver behaviour behind the wheel is one of the single biggest influencers of inefficiency, rising fleet costs and increasing carbon emissions. “Driving at 70mph, for example, is said to use 15% more fuel than at 50mph, while cruising at 80mph can use up to 25% more fuel than at 70mph.”* Furthermore, harsh acceleration, braking and steering can also have a significant impact on fuel and vehicle maintenance costs.

TomTom’s latest research portrays an intriguing European study that has put performance among drivers under the spotlight. Key UK findings include the discovery that:

“Working time pressures make more than half of van drivers (59%) more likely to speed and take risks on the road; and

Three-quarters of van drivers (75%) admit to breaking the speed limit in their work vehicles, with 24% doing so regularly.

Despite these revelations, an overwhelming 70% claim to be better drivers than road users that do not drive for work purposes.” **

So how are your drivers performing? Have they been empowered to improve standards? The opportunities to make significant efficiency and safety gains using smart fleet management tools to monitor and improve driving styles is invaluable to fleets in reducing costs, improving safety and unlocking hidden savings.

Monitoring your drivers in the fleet requires connected solutions. This allows you to monitor the characteristics of the vehicle's behaviour performed by the driver. Below are ways that OBD tracking dongles that connect to smart fleet management systems can monitor and optimise driver behaviour and improve performance behind the wheel whilst reducing costs:

Analyse current performance - Analysing the current driving performance data from your fleet management software identifies any problems and sets the start point from which to improve.

Setting Targets - Giving drivers a clear idea of where their driving performance should be by settings a series of minimum standards for fuel consumption, speeding, harsh steering, sudden breaking, revving and idling.

Benchmarking (KPI’s) - Benchmarking against industry peers or indeed across the fleet will ensure targets are realistic and that performance meets predefined standards.

Sharing information and plans - Getting buy-in from both drivers and senior management and outlining what you hope to improve and by when is an important factor in changing driver behaviour. Identify where incentives can be given through healthy competition and/or rewards. Demonstrating that financial incentives can be self-funding.

Identify/address problem drivers - Using driving scores or league tables to entice healthy competition and highlight those under performers helps to target training to improve their standards and empower them to adopt a better driving style. Using alerts to those drivers via an app can notify them in near real-time of concerns around their driving performance.

Rewarding drivers - Clear communication and feedback on progress help to achieve the best results. It is a good idea to promote the drivers performing to the set standards as advocates to sharing success stories. Considering incentives such recognition and competition works just as well as cash, vouchers or holiday incentives.

Review and refine - Set clear timelines to measure programme success against predefined KPI’s that is linked to the overall company goals. A continual improvement strategy helps to ensure steady progress.

TIP 5 - Accident Prevention

Let’s not forget that vehicle accidents take 1.3 million human lives a year globally and cause some 20-50 million injuries. These statistics are staggering and it’s obvious why accident management is a big and crucial part of any fleet manager’s job. When accidents inevitably occur, managing injuries, costs and downtime is a serious risk to any operational fleet.

Speeding has recently been revealed as a major contributor for many businesses. Research has found that company car drivers are more reckless than private motorists on European roads.“According to a survey conducted by a road safety group, one-third of business car vehicles on the road are involved in an accident every year.  At-work drivers are considered a “high-risk” group by insurers, in general, due to these figures, and high mileage.”***

Preventative measures can be performed to avoid loss of life, injuries, accident costs and downtime. It is crucial that actively monitoring and managing your driver behaviour across the fleet and maintain vehicle servicing according to the vehicle manufacturer's servicing regime helps  prevent accidents from occurring.

So it is clear to see that adopting a smart fleet management solution coupled with collaborative automation and connected solutions to manage your fleet is key here to controlling spend, driver behaviour and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). 

How many of these tips do you apply and how well did it go so far? Which one are you going to try next? 

Your experience and opinion matter so why not share it?

BulbThings can help you optimise usage of your fleet  alongside other enterprise assets so you can manage all your assets more effectively and control costs with one tool. To learn more about BulbThings please visit our website www.bulbthings.com or feel free to drop us a note at [email protected].

* Roaddriver.co.uk - Tips for Eco-driving

** TomTom, https://blog.business.tomtom.com - Driver Performance

*** Pendragon Contracts - blog.pendragon-contracts.co.uk

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Nile Zahran - BulbThings Senior Project Manager

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Tips for managing your assets more effectively - Part 1

HGV & equipment inventory fleets

In the first of this five part blog, we will provide tips on managing different types of enterprise assets starting with HGV fleets and associated equipment inventories. The purpose of these articles is to share and provide clarity on the best approach in managing them as part of an overall fleet/asset management strategy with view to helping you save time and money.

The HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicle) industry has been under much scrutiny in recent years due to the number of accidents involving cyclists and the need for the DfT (Department for Transport) to tackle road safety. In addition there has been much debate about the shortage of HGV drivers in the UK logistics sector with MP’s concerned that “just 2% of all HGV drivers are under the age of 25, with 60% over 45”.

This presents a potential ‘ticking time bomb’ in encouraging the recruitment of younger people into the haulage industry, as a way of solving the driver shortage crisis.

With this is mind and by following our five tips below, we hope you find them useful and effective to help save time, money and remain compliant:

Tip 1 - Driver recruitment & retention

Retaining good drivers in your fleet is a skill all too often lost. Fleets are finding they can use the data they collect on driver performance in their retention efforts. It can be used to measure driver performance on fuel economy, safe driving or other metrics, with top drivers getting incentives or bonuses.

Larger fleets tend to go beyond that with predictive modeling by using predictive analytics for recruiting and retention. This type of data analytics lets fleets not only identify the drivers most likely to have an accident before it occurs, but also those drivers most likely to leave.

Regular driver license checking with the DVLA helps to ensure that you and your drivers are compliant.

Tip 2 - Driver Management Using tachographs to record information about driving time, speed and distance ensures that drivers and employers follow the rules on drivers’ hours . Regular checking and recording of tacho data is mandatory to maintaining and protecting your company's Operators license (O license). GPS tracking is another great way of monitoring drivers’ hours but with the addition of driver behaviour and location.

Vehicle tracking systems record the speed of vehicles, which means employers can see straight away when a driver is speeding. Drivers will be aware of this so are much less likely to break the limit.

Not only is this safer for the individual driver, but the company's image will also benefit as the majority of fleet vehicles are branded with the company's name and information. Members of the public will often report incidents of speeding and careless driving and when this involves a company vehicle, such reports can quickly bring a firm's name into disrepute. Vehicle trackers can, therefore, help to maintain or improve the public image of a business.

A driver communication strategy is just as important as an asset management strategy. Do you know your drivers? Do they know you? How often should you communicate with them? One benefit of a driver communication strategy is that it increases the fleet policy compliance to help reduce unnecessary costs. Fleet policy is a crucial part of a company’s overall cost-control strategy.

“The best time to control costs is before they occur and the way to do this is by establishing policies and procedures that inhibit unnecessary spending and protect corporate assets.”

All too often, managers attempt to control fleet costs on the back end. Fleet policy provides the mechanism to curb money-wasting behaviours.

Tip 3 - Vehicle & equipment inspection checks Vehicles - Daily routine inspections of HGV vehicles is a critical safety precaution and is more comprehensive than inspecting cars and vans. Referring to the HGV inspection standards  helps to prevent:

Vehicle downtime

Accidents

Unplanned maintenance

Part of these checks help to also reduce fuel costs such as ensuring that drivers maintain properly inflated tires, avoid excessive idling, check for defects and drive the posted speed limit. Using an inspection checklist  will ensure that your vehicles remain healthy and compliant.

Equipment - Checking the operation of equipment and tools for defects prior to use is also crucial to driver/employee performance. These include inspections such as PAT, LOLER, PUWER and any PPE clothing. This helps to maintain risk assessments and audits and in turn helps you to track and control associated costs. This isn’t rocket science, but it is effective in producing time-proven end-results by the simple fact of drivers and employees complying with a written fleet policy.

Tip 4 - Maintenance & Compliance

Transport operators who choose to take a systematic and preventative approach to Fleet Maintenance Management outperform and win more business than those who choose to stick with reactive type maintenance regimes. A well-designed and automated preventive maintenance program offers resounding benefits including reduced costs per mile, advanced identification of premature failures, increased service life and enhanced customer satisfaction.  

“The value of preventive maintenance in reducing operating costs could mitigate the effects of other adverse variables like rising fuel prices”

Tip 5 - Asset Tracking

Vehicles - Many companies choose to install trackers onto their vehicles in order to improve the efficiency of their staff. Vehicles can be monitored to ensure that they are sticking to the routes and jobs that they have been assigned. A driver cannot claim to have been stuck in traffic for hours if this is not the case as the tracking device will show his or her precise movements.

Vehicle tracking allow you to respond to customers more quickly by sending the right vehicle at the right time. Thanks to GPS tracking, you can pinpoint the location of any vehicle in your fleet at any time and dispatch them to the nearest job, whilst identifying areas of reduced productivity and explore ways to increase their time utilisation.

This also means that drivers cannot make fraudulent overtime claims. Long haul drivers, in particular, often work with little supervision so could exploit their employers by claiming extra hours. Without a tracking device, there is often little evidence to counter a fraudulent overtime claim. However, a tracking device can show exactly what time a vehicle was parked up for the night. Fuels bills will also be reduced if drivers stick to the speed limit and do not wander off course.

Being able to locate a vehicle in the case of breakdown is also an important benefit of a tracking device. The sooner the location of a stranded vehicle is confirmed, the sooner a recovery can take place. The stranded driver can be found quickly and there is little risk of them having to stay with their vehicle for a long time. Additionally, from a business point of view, the benefit of a vehicle tracking system is given due to the fact that the vehicle will be found and repaired more quickly, wasting less money on waiting times.

By law, commercial drivers must take regular breaks and employers can ensure their drivers are doing so if they are tracked. This not only ensures the business is complying with its legal obligations but also benefits the individual driver's safety at work.

Equipment - Like vehicles, equipment can be also tracked. GPS tracking your equipment and or large kit inventores gives a level of insight into your business that essentially creates a positive return on your investment. To put it simply:

“Tracking equipment will allow your business to operate much more efficiently and at lower cost”

Some of the benefits are as follows:

Slash tool costs - As projects continue to become scarcer and less profitable, tool-intensive organisations are looking internally for cost improvement opportunities that can deliver immediate and significant bottom-line improvements.

Stop tool loss - Organisations that track equipment through GPS can report that tool retention increases dramatically. The reason? Tools are suddenly returned on time. Field workers start taking better care of the tools assigned to them. And tools that have not been seen for a long time "miraculously" start showing up.

Improve Materials Management - Tracking materials and consumables is a tedious but critical task in most organisations. Paper and spreadsheet systems are not only labor-intensive, they’’re also error-prone. Automating your material and consumable management processes leads to improved accountability, reduced waste, optimised inventory levels, reduced paperwork, less manual tracking and counting, and improved billing accuracy.

Streamline Tool Inspections and Calibrations -  For many organisations, strict adherence to a tool inspection and calibration schedule is mandatory and regulated by governing bodies and auditors. Companies can be held responsible if they fail to comply or are unable to prove compliance. Tool inspection and calibration in fleet management software as a functionality helps ensure that your tool, equipment and fleet repairs are always performed on time and automated with detailed records of calibrations and inspections enabling you meet regulatory requirements.

Tip 6 - Use a Fleet and equipment lifecycle management tool

Many organisations continue to use spreadsheets to manage their fleets. Whilst this is time consuming, limited in capability and inefficient, Fleet Management Systems are far more comprehensive, affordable, easier to use and user-friendly.

The key benefits of fleet and equipment life cycle management supports the focus on TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). For instance, fleet management software can calculate the replacement dates of all of your vehicles and equipment and the costs associated with replacement. This will help a business replace these in a timely fashion and not be faced with unexpected costs.

An increasing trend is technicians and field agents using mobile devices to perform their daily tasks. Keeping track of these devices and controlling their usage and associated costs is an increasing challenge that an equipment lifecycle management tool can help with.

A fleet and equipment management system also ensures:

Keeping traceability of vehicles and kits to increase accountability and report adequately on costs allocation.

Automate administrative tasks (e.g. ordering/renewal of vehicles/kits, allocation to drivers, recording of damages and fines, shared/pool vehicles calendar, returns /re-sell)

Invoice reconciliation and correction

Supplier contract optimisation (leasing, fuel, etc)

Driver Management - Monitor driver behaviour and usage

Maintenance programming and compliancy control

Monitor fuel use and consumption

Up to date information on the total cost of ownership of an asset

Benchmark vehicles/equipment management activities against industry best practices

Keep all the information in one place for management to make timely decisions about assets in order to balance risk, cost, and benefit of equipment over their life cycles

Conclusion

It's important not to view fleet and asset tracking systems as a method of spying on your employees, but to see them as a means of protecting their safety as well as your business. The ability to be able to locate a vehicle or piece of equipment at any given time has obvious safety benefits. Should a driver be involved in an accident, their exact location can be pinpointed within seconds and passed to the relevant emergency services. If the accident happens to be serious, this speed could potentially save lives.

Managing your assets throughout their entire lifecycle can be complex, but having this information will help optimise your fleet. As the fleet management software automates tasks and performs all the analysis of vehicles and equipment data, it frees up employees to perform other tasks within the business.

BulbThings provides a complete fleet and equipment lifecycle management tool with an integrated fleet tracking system that uses the latest IoT technologies to collect and analyse vehicle and driver behaviour data. This collaborative web app allows you to interact with your drivers and get information about allocation, usage, critical events and costs in real-time, ensuring you are in control saving both time and money. In fact, you can save up to 20% of your fleet TCO. We’d be glad to offer you a free tailored ROI and cost savings estimate.

To learn more about BulbThings please visit our website www.bulbthings.com or feel free to drop us a note at [email protected].

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Nile Zahran - BulbThings Senior Project Manager