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More Efficient Fleet Tracking

May 15, 2014 fleet, tracking, heavy, trucks, commercial, ctrack

More Efficient Fleet Tracking

Ctrack has announced the introduction of an enhancement to its fleet management solution. This, it says, expands its tracking coverage to both land and sea, globally and cost effectively.

The company confirms that it also means more customer control, with the ability to configure Ctrack’s wireless communication to exact operational requirements - and at the same time, minimising data communication costs.

That's quite a claim. But how exactly is it possible?

Ctrack says that usually, data is exchanged using GPRS protocols across a GSM network, to report vehicle movements along with other telematics information.  The company's Multi-comms enables transporters operating across borders to select additional communication channels for this data transfer. The onboard system is able to intelligently switch to satellite communication mode when a vehicle is in an area with no GSM signal coverage or crosses into another country; when at the depot it can switch to Wi-Fi to download low priority data not yet sent over the more expensive channels.

“This new functionality enables seamless and least cost data transfer between the customer’s vehicles and Ctrack’s monitoring centre, providing the most cost effective real time internet tracking and reporting,” says Nick Vlok CEO of DigiCore, supplier of Ctrack.

In the presence of Wi-Fi or an authorised TETRA network, Ctrack Multi-comms automatically selects the lowest cost channel to exchange data, helping to save on third party communication costs. Ctrack’s proprietary least cost routing algorithm gives users the ability to prioritise information based on their operational requirements, reducing communication costs to the minimum possible.


“Many multinationals and large businesses with extensive vehicle fleets often require their valuable mobile assets and specialists to work in remote and harsh environments, or down in open cast mine pits, where there is limited or no GSM network coverage. Multi-comms now makes the tracking and monitoring of expensive and highly specialised assets in extremely challenging locations possible,” continues Vlok.

“Ctrack Multi-comms allows us to offer customers an even higher level of efficiency, reliability and security for their fleets and assets."

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