The Benefits of Technology in Collection Management

When it comes to waste collection management, RFID technology in combination with GPS tracking establishes a whole new way of collecting and analyzing operational data for maximum efficiency.  By installing RFID and GPS technology on a fleet of waste collection trucks, a business owner or operator can gain instant access into vehicles, gain real-time access to worker activities, and keep up with vehicle maintenance. Leave no can unturned!

RFID enables a waste entity to easily keep track of curbside pick-up by collecting data through RFID tags located on the bins collected.  With this data, bins collected per vehicle can be reviewed during any period of time along with map representation.  This helps facilitate analysis on the data and assists businesses with making strategic operational decisions.

With today's technology GPS is no longer limited to just tracking.   Once these useful devices  are installed, vehicles can be watched and controlled remotely, and driver performance can be assessed - increasing safety and productivity, amongst many other benefits.  Have the ability to lock or unlock, power on or off, raise or lower windows, etc., from any location via a computer, tablet or smartphone. Set live-alerts for vehicle activity to be notified of anything out of the ordinary.   Monitor driver behavior, inclusive of set parameters to assess performance and hours logged.   These tools help reduce the likelihood of incidents occurring and that collection abilities are being fully utilized.

Another feature to assist with optimizing collection management that supplements GPS tracking are maintenance modules set to ensure an organized scheduling of vehicle maintenance.  Actively maintaining waste management equipment can prevent many accidents that come with the use of fleet vehicles.  Pre-set parameters can determine when a vehicle is due for maintenance, and send alert reminders.  This feature ensures only necessary maintenance occurs and helps a business maintain efficiency, an important factor in waste collection.

For obvious reasons collection management is very important in the waste management industry.  Fortunately, with RFID, GPS tracking, and Maintenance Management technology, collection management can be easily monitored and efficiently run.

Site Safety - GPS Doesn’t Only Mean Tracking

When it comes to the construction industry, site safety should always be a major priority. One significant way to implement on-site safety is through the management and monitorization of heavy equipment. By installing GPS tracking technology on a fleet of heavy equipment, a business owner or operator can gain instant access into vehicles as well as gain real-time access to worker activities.

GPS is no longer limited to just tracking. With these useful devices  installed, vehicles can be watched and controlled remotely, and driver performance can be assessed - increasing safety, amongst many other benefits.

Control workforce fleets from afar, by having the ability to lock or unlock, power on or off, raise or lower windows, etc., from any location via a computer, tablet or smartphone. Set live-alerts for vehicle activity to be notified of anything out of the ordinary. Monitor driver behavior, inclusive of set parameters to assess performance and hours logged. In addition to tracking driver behavior you can randomly screen drivers for drug and alcohol testing. These tools help reduce the likelihood of incidents occurring!

Another feature to assist with safety measures that supplements GPS tracking are maintenance modules set to ensure an organized scheduling of vehicle maintenance. Actively maintaining equipment can prevent many accidents that come with the use of heavy machinery and other fleet vehicles. Pre-set parameters can determine when a vehicle or piece of heavy equipment is due for maintenance, and send alert reminders. This feature ensures only necessary maintenance occurs and helps a business maintain efficiency, an important factor in construction.

For obvious reasons safety is very important in the construction industry. Fortunately, with GPS tracking and driver behavior reviewing, many safety related occurrences can be avoided if not eliminated altogether.

GPS Vehicle Tracking offers valuable benefits for any type of business!

Did you know our GPS Vehicle Tracking solutions are tailored for each individual transportation entity and provide a high level of monitoring capabilities with up to the minute location information frequencies? Not to mention, you can access your information frequencies just about anywhere from a tablet or mobile device.

Have real time control while you save time, money and maximize your entity's full potential with our powerful, state of the art, GPS Tracking. The system runs seamlessly by itself or can easily pair with any current operating system to improve time management, lower fuel costs, reduce payroll and ensure safety by tracking driver's behavior. 

GPS Tracking enables your business to do just some of the following:

• View your entire fleet at once, or monitor the individual whereabouts of specific vehicles
• Control your vehicle (enable/disable ignition, lock/unlock doors, open/close windows, etc.)
• Set geofences to be alerted when vehicles go outside of a certain area
• Organized dispatching
• Monitor vehicle maintenance
• Observe driver behavior

Complying DOT’s Drug and Alcohol Policy is easy with TSO Mobile Automated Random Testing

While tracking is a major part of operating a business efficiently, monitoring driver behavior helps contribute to increasing overall productivity.

According to a recent study published in the Journal Sleep,  20% of all crashes involving a commercial vehicle results from drowsiness behind the wheel.  Improve safety conditions by installing our sensors which alert dispatching of drowsy driving activity!

Our GPS Vehicle Tracking also has the ability to automatically rate your drivers based on custom behavior metrics. Create custom driver behavior profiles featuring:

• RPMS
• Speeding
• Harsh Turns
• Idling
• Fuel performance
• Acceleration
• Deceleration
• Average Speed

TSO Mobile offers additional tools to improve Driver Behavior, including our GPS Tracking with Live Video Verification to monitor and reference the cause of a driver's behavior at any given time. These tools create accountability and driver's respond by performing better.

Dispatch and Human Resources can utilize and benefit from preventative safety measures with our Driver Behavior Score Card. Our Score Card features automated random testing for both Alcohol and Drug tests, and then stay organized with driver's alcohol and drug test results with our easy to reference, automatically updated Medical Card system.

With TSO Mobile's all-under-one-roof solutions, your business will be running smoother in no time!

Millennials Are Public Transportation Riders

Our nation is relying more and more on public transportation, not only as a necessity, but also as a desire for it. There has been an apparent trend of a growing desire to have access to various forms of public transportation throughout the cities people live in. This development seems to be trending predominantly by America's largest generation. Being the younger generation searching for places to settle down and live in, millennials are the passengers that metro areas nationwide need to attract and keep if they want to stay sustainable in the future.

According to a study conducted by the Global Strategy Group and directed by the Rockefeller Foundation and Transportation on a large group of millennials, it was found that 4 out 5 of these individuals say they would prefer to live in places where they have a range of options to travel to jobs, school and other daily activities. While preferring the option of public transportation to avoid automobile use, either for convenience or cost, it's important to not only provide the service, but also provide it efficiently.

Many public transportation systems in existence offer residents of their respective towns the option to get around using their services, but lack the proper tools to control and manage operations to provide passengers with the pleasurable riding experience they desire. As a major growing factor in millennials decision-making process in deciding where to live, these systems of transportation need to run as efficiently as possible if it is to be worthwhile to those using it.

In the world of public transportation, passenger satisfaction is key. Many public transit systems currently lack the tools that ensure control and high management of system operations to provide customers with a pleasing and fulfilling riding experience. With TSO Mobile solutions, entities will find increased productivity, improved dispatching, increased security, reduced operation costs, and a general increased reliability on their public transportation system.

Public transportation needs be easy to use, friendly, and a well-organized experience for passengers. It is important for these transportation systems to work on efficiency and time management to accomplish passenger-centered solutions, as provided by TSO Mobile. The younger generations are more and more leaning towards choosing homes in locations based on access to high quality transit and an idea of complete streets.

TSO Mobile strives to support these public transportation systems by combining all of the ultimate technology for transit systems, management companies, cities and towns. With TSO Mobile's public transportation solutions, entities will experience increased productivity, improved dispatching, increased security, and reduced operations costs. Most importantly, passengers will start seeing the reliability of their public transportation system and increase ridership.

More Than Just Vehicle Tracking

More Than Just Vehicle Tracking

The alignment of multiple components are necessary in providing and attaining an efficient rental industry service. Equipment, goods and vehicles need to be managed in a timely manner, customer orders need to be dispatched to their respective locations, and status of operations need to be tracked accordingly, among many additional factors to be considered. To guarantee maximum efficiency in relaying these operations, the Point-of-Rental system is integrated with TSO Mobile GPS vehicle tracking and technology, working together to bring an all-in-one solution for all dispatching duties and business efficiencies.

Installed tracking software allows for easy location identification, timely schedule formations, and seamless fleet dispatching. These systems, working together with administrative software already in place, present much more benefits to rental businesses than just GPS tracking.  Through use of integrated tracking technology with rental and inventory management software, rental businesses gain:

• Increased Security Integrated technology allows the monitoring of various driver behaviors while on the road. Speed limits, accelerations, braking, operational activities and route tracking are all ways to assess driver performance in real-time, ensuring the safety of drivers and everyone else on the road. Asset management is also improved with vehicle tracking procedures to prevent permanent or unclear loss.
• Mileage and Fuel Reduction With abilities to dispatch vehicle speeding events, idling, fuel consumption activities, and data of misuse and damage, maximum control is achieved and only necessary costs are disbursed and access to all essential reporting options are available.
• Operational Cost Reduction Real-time monitoring of activities such as vehicle uses, maintenance, driver behavior, fuel usage and hours of service help prevent unnecessary expenses, with a broad analytical view of all costs being spent. Because of efficient use of fuel, mileage, and driver activity monitoring, prevention of neglectful activity is extended.
• Improved Dispatching Management software and vehicle tracking technology used in work orders, dispatching and route planning and scheduling, integrated with mobile app technology, allows for running operations as smoothly and proactively as possible. With all dispatching duties relayed in real-time, from adaptable devices, management software and fleet management solutions work together to give operation managers everything they need to run an effective rental business.
• Positive Customer Service With the use of arrival, departure, pickup, delivery and equipment usage monitoring, service reliability is increased. Tracking of all operations and location allow for meeting promised deadlines to customers and effective dispatching of information.

In a business relied on by deadlines, valuable equipment on the move, and a distributed workforce, GPS vehicle tracking and fleet management software integration with Point-of-Rental dispatching solutions provides rental companies with software technology to pinpoint equipment location and activities to dispatch assets to the right places, at the right time. These systems, working collectively, bring us the future of rental logistics, today.

This blog was a contribution to the Point-of-Rental Blog. TSO Mobile will be a PLATINUM SPONSOR at Point-of-Rental's 2015 International Conference, taking place November 9-11, 2015 in Fort Worth, Texas. To read our blog on the Point-of-Rental website, click here. 

Waste Collection at its Best

One Platform. Ample Solutions.

 

To operate an effective and successful transportation system, various moving parts need to be monitored and measured.

Where are your vehicles going?

When are they arriving?

Is your driver going too fast?

Do your transit routes make the most efficient use of time and fuel? 

These, in addition to many more, are all questions whose answers enable you to evaluate and deliver a reliable public transportation experience to your passengers. 

Our all-in-one GPS Vehicle Tracking and Fleet Management solutions have the ability to bring you all of these answers in one platform; they are even further tailored to the public transportation industry you operate in. 

Providing a high level of monitoring capabilities with up-to-the-minute location information frequencies, our GPS Tracking platform gives you access to a complete fleet management and dispatching program where you can monitor public vehicles, their activities, key events that trigger automated alerts and much more to ensure all operations are always running smoothly.

 We work in real-time, reporting every 10 seconds, 360 times per hour!

With our platform you we give you:

• Real-time information on the location of your vehicles
• Information about safety levels of operations
• Remote control of your vehicles
• Alert notifications via email or text messages
• Real-time information about your drivers' performance
• Information on vehicle conditions
• Historical information on your vehicles
• Security protocols
• Analytical reports for key decision-making
• And much more!

Do you influence your mobile audience?

Earlier this month, TSO Mobile had the opportunity to showcase products at the APTA Bus & Paratransit Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. The event was sponsored by the American Public Transportation Association and hosted by the Fort Worth Transportation Authority as it invited all attendees to join in learning about the various vehicles and technology associated with providing public transportation. At its Bus Products and Services Showcase, TSO Mobile proudly staged and displayed our Onboard Advertising System technology, offering transit operators an additional opportunity for revenue generation.

As the demand for various public transportation options continues to increase in cities, ridership is growing. As more and more individuals decide to jump on trolleys, buses and rails in their cities, the audience sitting in these vehicles has expanded to become much more varied than that of years ago. We see groups of all ages, races, professions and incomes riding public transit to get where they need to go. With a growing passenger audience, the option of digital onboard advertising systems provides a significant revenue generation opportunity for transit companies everywhere.

Increasingly popular "Park-and-Ride" options have caused a wide range of business professionals, teachers, college students and many other types of workers to leave their vehicles in parking spaces and ride public transit vehicles to and from jobs. Digital onboard advertising tactics reaches all these passengers, demanding attention and allowing reception of messaging visually – no matter what other senses are being distracted, such as headphones affecting the ability to hear.

With highly effective and professional onboard advertising, HD multimedia display technology placed onboard has the ability to easily reach both drivers and passengers riding public transit, using screens to comprehensively show campaigns and real-time notices. The system combines audio, video, TV images, pictures, animation, texts, documents, websites, streaming media and database data into different features and then releases the finished programs via a uniform network to
media display terminals everywhere. The images and real-time information are then systematically and perfectly displayed in front of the seated audience at designated locations.

While onboard advertising can serve as a dominant use of onboard digital space, these systems placed onto vehicles can be used for more than simply promotional methods. Onboard displays have the ability broadcast multiple notifications to travelers in real-time and display announcement information all while remaining centrally controlled with scheduled messaging. With the ability to inform and engage passengers, digital advertising allows transportation facilities to efficiently connect with their commuters, whether at stations where they sit and wait or while riding vehicles daily.

Some prospects these systems are capable of, once implemented, include the capacity and technology to become an information source to tourist riders, offering informational material about surrounding areas based on vehicle movement via geofencing techniques; tell stories and facts about given subjects automatically; create infomercials; and provide vehicle updates and status in real-time. With installed onboard advertising systems, technology can then be manipulated to perform customized tasks to fit the needs of any transit operation.

Digital placement of information onto transit vehicles offers an amazing opportunity to transportation operators in any field to make profitable use of fleet vehicles' onboard space by subsidizing operations with advertisements. TSO Mobile provides you the hardware and technology needed to make it easy for you to take advantage of building relationships with businesses in your local area by creating a unique opportunity to benefit everyone.

Image credits: APTA Bus & Paratransit Conference (www.apta.com)

Do you influence your mobile audience?

Earlier this month, TSO Mobile had the opportunity to showcase products at the APTA Bus & Paratransit Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. The event was sponsored by the American Public Transportation Association and hosted by the Fort Worth Transportation Authority as it invited all attendees to join in learning about the various vehicles and technology associated with providing public transportation. At its Bus Products and Services Showcase, TSO Mobile proudly staged and displayed our Onboard Advertising System technology, offering transit operators an additional opportunity for revenue generation.

As the demand for various public transportation options continues to increase in cities, ridership is growing. As more and more individuals decide to jump on trolleys, buses and rails in their cities, the audience sitting in these vehicles has expanded to become much more varied than that of years ago. We see groups of all ages, races, professions and incomes riding public transit to get where they need to go. With a growing passenger audience, the option of digital onboard advertising systems provides a significant revenue generation opportunity for transit companies everywhere.

Increasingly popular "Park-and-Ride" options have caused a wide range of business professionals, teachers, college students and many other types of workers to leave their vehicles in parking spaces and ride public transit vehicles to and from jobs. Digital onboard advertising tactics reaches all these passengers, demanding attention and allowing reception of messaging visually – no matter what other senses are being distracted, such as headphones affecting the ability to hear.

With highly effective and professional onboard advertising, HD multimedia display technology placed onboard has the ability to easily reach both drivers and passengers riding public transit, using screens to comprehensively show campaigns and real-time notices. The system combines audio, video, TV images, pictures, animation, texts, documents, websites, streaming media and database data into different features and then releases the finished programs via a uniform network to
media display terminals everywhere. The images and real-time information are then systematically and perfectly displayed in front of the seated audience at designated locations.

While onboard advertising can serve as a dominant use of onboard digital space, these systems placed onto vehicles can be used for more than simply promotional methods. Onboard displays have the ability broadcast multiple notifications to travelers in real-time and display announcement information all while remaining centrally controlled with scheduled messaging. With the ability to inform and engage passengers, digital advertising allows transportation facilities to efficiently connect with their commuters, whether at stations where they sit and wait or while riding vehicles daily.

Some prospects these systems are capable of, once implemented, include the capacity and technology to become an information source to tourist riders, offering informational material about surrounding areas based on vehicle movement via geofencing techniques; tell stories and facts about given subjects automatically; create infomercials; and provide vehicle updates and status in real-time. With installed onboard advertising systems, technology can then be manipulated to perform customized tasks to fit the needs of any transit operation.

Digital placement of information onto transit vehicles offers an amazing opportunity to transportation operators in any field to make profitable use of fleet vehicles' onboard space by subsidizing operations with advertisements. TSO Mobile provides you the hardware and technology needed to make it easy for you to take advantage of building relationships with businesses in your local area by creating a unique opportunity to benefit everyone.

Image credits: APTA Bus & Paratransit Conference (www.apta.com)