Asset Tracking System – A Bonanza for Multimodal Transportation

In this modern era, transportation industries are pacing at the par speed and everything needs to be well-managed without having any kind of mistakes because even a small mistake sometimes lead to lose their market position. Managers of transportation firms are now adopting the innovative solutions which act like a boon in their assets. Thanks to the technology that helps them keep updated in this constantly evolving and shifting industry to expand their assets than themselves & others.

Moreover, due to the growing market area, companies need more & more vehicles on roads. And, this unfortunately means the more investment and more concern about your vehicles. Adding fuel, supply, and the additional cost of repairing the industry’s assets are a few of the expenses that an industry have to shell out on their worthy transports or assets. A top-notch asset tracker is one of the tailor-made solutions which help to mitigate all the concerns of Multi modal Transportation firms. Asset Tracker is an influential way to keep a hawk eye over your assets, irrespective of the size of shipment or modes of transportation. Furthermore, one can use the asset tracker to recognize the real time whereabouts, status of cargos, and containers that carry the consignment, etc.

Now, avail with ‘n’ numbers of benefits of Assets trackers –

•          Maximize your asset’s efficiency & losses due to the unscrupulous usage
•     Help in fast recovery of your stolen and misled consignments via its real time monitoring attribute
•          Offer enhanced customer’s satisfaction and superior customer’s loyalty
•          Provide real time asset management
•         Enhance your productivity and decrease overall labor cost
•          Help to reduce maintenance costs and unnecessary repairing
•          Streamline your maintenance schedules
•          Ensure complete accuracy & ‘peace of mind’
•          Ensure the regulatory compliance
•          Offer maintenance tracking

Due to a fact, the Fleet & the consignment both are the assets to the transportation industries, fleet owners, logistics firms, & the customers. Using the Smart Technology driven solution having the features which are mentioned above will boost the safety & security of your assets. VoxTrail Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. offers a custom-made asset tracker named as VMT which is featured with all the above characteristics. 

Enhance the productivity of your assets with Real Time GPS Fleet Tracking.

In this modern era, the majority of consignments are done via the shared transportation's which are acknowledged as the use of the transportation & the logistics firms to ship their services. Though, the majority of shipment is done in this way, thus, knowing about the real time whereabouts and current status of goods/assets in real-time to the shipment, especially for the multi-modal transportation background becomes a big challenge. Moreover, there is always a safety concern for the assets or goods owners as there is a chance of some mis-happenings or theft of your valuable products while they are in-transits and to know the exact information about their real time status & the expected delivery time of goods/assets.

An Asset Monitoring System is one of the foremost and effectual solutions which mitigate the concerns associated with the assets. The asset tracker is known as the most effectual way which helps to track & trace your assets irrespective of the size of shipment or the mode of your transportation. Real Time GPS Fleet Tracking Big business owners, fleet managements firms, and logistics companies can use the asset trackers for ; know the live status of your fleets/assets, etc. There are ‘n’ numbers of essential benefits related with asset trackers, such as –

• It maximizes the asset’s efficiency and reduces the losses due to their regular usage.
• It offers the fast recovery of your misled or stolen consignments with its real time tracking attribute.
• It offers superior customer satisfaction & improves the customer loyalty.
• It provides real time asset management.
• It enhances the overall productivity of your fleets & reduces the labor cost.
• It helps to avoid the unnecessary maintenance and repair costs.
• It allows the maintenance tracking.
• It streamlines the maintenance schedules.
• It ensures the regulatory compliance.
• It ensures the complete accuracy & peace of mind.

In spite of this, asset trackers are the multi-modal tracking solution with the help of which you are able to track & trace the shipment when its shipping started from point of the loading to the actual destination via any transportation mode, be it the truck, cargo, train, etc. in short, with the powerful assistance of asset trackers, you can track your assets throughout your entire consignment life cycle from its source to the destination. 

Importance of SOS Button in public transport

According to the latest notification, under the governance of Priyank Bharti, joint secretary, ministry of road transport and highways; The ministry of road transport and highways has made it mandatory from January 1, 2019, for every public transport except auto rickshaws and E-rickshaws to be configured with vehicle location tracking (VLT) and emergency buttons also known as SOS Button. The main objective of introducing this guideline is women safety and passenger’s safety traveling via public transports at any point in time anywhere.

Why SOS is been required in public transport?

With the brutal mishap in 2012, this implication was made to make the public transport safe and secure for all sects of people and especially for women. SOS Button or emergency push signal is a kind of technology that transmits signals to the connected portals like - nearby police station or PCR, main contacts and social media handles with a location live tracking feature. In order to track, trace and monitor any misleading activity or emergency situation SOS button helps the victim to take an initial step for his/her protection.

How will it get validated?

With a central governing authority, the state transport department will check the fitment and functional status of the VLTs While carrying out the fitness test. Commercial vehicles are required to get the fitness certificate annually. The command and control center set up by the state or VLT manufactures will provide an interface to other agencies such as emergency response center, transport department or RTOs. These will also provide a live feed to the central data Vahan.

Benefits of implementing the SOS Button in transportation infrastructure:-

1.    Intimating the family members or friends – whenever you are traveling in a public transport and due to any case you find the situation uncomfortable, this SOS Button will help you to tip-off the information about your current love location to your family members, nearby police station and PCR. So, that a regular check on your path is been conducted and safety measures can be taken by the police authorities.

2.    Integration with social media and message technology – Panic buttons is been integrated with the social media handles like  - Facebook, Twitter and other accounts along with the messaging functionality which is been provided to the passengers. Now, the passengers can send their live locations to their friends and family via emails and messages if found in an emergency.

3.    Offline working – Some manufacturers like – VoxTrail Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., manufacture “Made in India” product which will help the government, transportation authorities and passengers to make advancement in the SOS Technology by making the functionality work on offline mode also. Now, if there is a loss of data then, the SOS button starts working on GSM, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functionalities which captures the signals from nearby devices and sends the notifications and alerts.

4.    Inculcating Peace of Mind- SOS button law on public transport will help the parents and family members to remain at peace will their children or daughters are traveling outside. They can now navigate and get informed about any changes in route or any panic situations.

5.    Warning to the Culprits – The Emergency button along with Vehicle live location tracker has now become a warning tool to the culprits who roam around with a frugal mindset. They will be governed under strict surveillance and the action against any misdeed made by them will be taken there and then.

Although the government has passed the bill we as citizens need to be a helping hand to the government in order to make this SOS Button implication a successful execution towards a change in safety standards of our society.