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| KORE Telematics and Insight USA Deliver Digital Just-In-Time Vehicle Tracking KORE Telematics and InSight USA announce that together, the companies have enabled hundreds of enterprises to increase productivity and cut operating costs by up to 8%. Productivity gains were especially noticeable for dynamic transportation companies where time is a factor — such as ambulatory services, taxi companies and towing businesses. There are more than 20 million service and delivery fleet vehicles in operation in the U.S. With today's high fuel costs, just the fuel and maintenance expense alone can be astronomical for any company to bear. For example, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study showed that trucks, left idling for long periods of time, waste approximately 960 million gallons of diesel fuel each year. It's the drivers, not business owners, who control some 80% of the variable costs associated with trucking, and real-time data collection allows owners to more closely manage this behavior. For that reason, more and more company owners track their fleet vehicles with GPS wireless technology. Real-time information — including idling time, fuel consumption, driving speeds, vehicle location and employee work time — enables business owners to make informed decisions about driver performance, customer service and efficient routing. Founded in 1998, InSight USA was among the first companies to pioneer GPS tracking, transforming it into the technology that it is today. The company's StreetEagle application provides "real-time" management oversight to any company with a mobile workforce, regardless of size. With thousands of installations, StreetEagle has become recognized as one of the most capable GPS Tracking solutions on the market. Coupled with KORE's digital wireless service designed specifically for machine-to-machine communication for market segments such as vehicle and asset tracking, InSight has been able to deliver wireless Just-in-Time tracking – also known as Active tracking – for companies that need to locate its drivers at any given moment, from coast to coast in North America. Recent findings in an eyefortransport survey support this. The report cites 48% of enterprises consider improved internal efficiencies such as fuel and route management as the most important return on investment (ROI) for adopting fleet tracking technologies. Improved customer service, at 36%, was the second most important ROI factor for enterprises. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |