Real-time Monitoring for Enhanced Fleet Safety: Insights, Alerts, and Analytics
Did you know that fleets using advanced safety solutions with real-time† monitoring receive data and alerts they can use to protect their service technicians, assets, and operations?
Instant alerts provide crucial information when it matters most, warning of potential risks so techs and managers can take proactive measures to prevent accidents and mitigate hazards.
From reducing accidents and insurance costs to improving driver behavior and optimizing routes, the benefits real-time monitoring has on fleet safety are boundless.
Real-time monitoring data to improve safety and efficiency
With real-time monitoring, you can get instant data on:
- Sudden shifts in weather
- Driver behavior such as fatigue, following distance, distracted driving, and more
- How hazardous road conditions can stack, shift
- Vehicle location
- Speed and following distance
- Changes in risk level when roads change to wet, snowy, or low visibility conditions
- Fuel usage
- Engine health
- Vehicle performance
This data can be used to identify unsafe driving behaviors, risky driving conditions and locations, see fuel consumption patterns, and know when a vehicle needs maintenance, all to help create a safer and more efficient fleet.
These insights help fleet managers make informed safety decisions like scheduling maintenance, responding quickly to emergencies, and being better prepared to quickly reroute.
By using data thoughtfully, fleets may see increased safety and risk mitigation, cost savings, and operational improvements.
Real-time monitoring and analytics for risk mitigation
Real-time monitoring and alerts and can be a game changer for improving operations, helping managers and drivers take immediate corrective action when needed.
For instance, machine vision and artificial intelligence (MV+AI)† can analyze a technician’s unsafe driving behaviors, such as speeding or harsh braking, and send an in-cab alert signaling them to self-correct before a collision occurs. By receiving these alerts, techs become more aware of their actions while behind the wheel which can help improve their performance over time.
Similarly, fleets need to have visibility into ever-changing conditions on the road. Dynamic Risk offers a network of cloud-connected cameras combined with our powerful MV+AI technology. This enables us to analyze road-view imagery and create highly localized hazardous alerts for adverse weather, pedestrian, roadwork detection, and risky intersections to help fleets anticipate potential risks and proactively prevent incidents. These real-world situational and environmental conditions give fleets the ability to enable timely, in-cab alerts that are context-aware and adaptive.
Managers can also use the data to create targeted training or interventions. Educating and motivating employees to adopt safer practices is key to reducing road risks.
One such area that fleets can focus on is fatigued driving. Fatigue-related crashes are especially dangerous and a growing concern for fleet safety. Most fatigue detection systems over-alert or require extra hardware in the cab. Lytx Fatigue Detection utilizes machine vision (MV), artificial intelligence (AI), and human intelligence (HI) to identify fatigue with greater accuracy and fewer false alerts†, enabling managers to intervene earlier than ever.
AI can analyze traffic patterns to spot risks, so techs can be routed away from congested or hazardous areas and get them to appointments on time.
Then, managers can use this information to communicate with customers, reroute, or adjust their schedules to accommodate what is happening on the road.
These tools have averted potential collisions, reduced wear-and-tear accidents, and ensured safer roads.
Improve customer service and productivity
Fleet tracking and video telematics help take customer service to the next level. By simply looking at the map, you can see what vehicle is closest to a customer and send them over quickly. You’ll also be able to give accurate arrival estimates, which customers will appreciate.
Tracking arrival and departure times and setting geofences also helps ensure your drivers are complying with schedules and staying within their set working hours.
With video as part of your tracking solution, you’ll always have objective proof of service if a customer files a dispute.
Know when a situation requires immediate attention
Real-time alerts notify fleet managers of potential safety hazards, fatigued driving, or erratic driver behavior instantly.
Whether it's sudden braking, speeding, falling asleep at the wheel, or route deviations, these alerts enable immediate intervention to correct the situation.
This helps in avoiding collisions, ensuring compliance with safety protocols, getting to appointments on time, and maintaining the fleet's operational safety.
Use data to proactively identify patterns that might lead to future safety risks
What if you could access historical data on your fleet’s driving behaviors, vehicle performance, and your route’s traffic conditions?
Information from monitoring inside the vehicle and information about the vehicle’s movements on the road can add up to a more comprehensive picture of a fleet’s risk profile.
Lytx® technology monitors for patterns of persistent risky behavior and selects representative highlights of video that users can use as coaching opportunities.
When managers know the risks, they can take proactive measures to enhance overall fleet safety, which is good for everyone on the road.