Food Transportation Companies – Tracking Solutions
Constant monitoring of transported Foods and Ingredients that are shipped refrigerated, frozen, or at ambient temperatures is essential. Factors like susceptibility to abuse or contamination during transportation and storage can affect foods and ingredients. Customers expect on time delivery. Customers of food companies often need historical information related to shipment arrivals, load time, and time involved in shipment reaching the destination. With Smart Bee GPS Server’s powerful solutions you can efficiently monitor all these events. Stay constantly informed about temperature of your merchandise, and about breaking or tampering incidents. Systematically optimize all your merchandise deliveries and vehicle deployments. Keep up to date vehicle maintenance schedules that lead to reductions in operating costs. These solutions help you raise customer’s satisfaction, and utilize resources saved in other areas of requirement.
Merchandise Status Monitoring – Round the Clock
Solutions
Configure Temperature Alarms – When a preset temperature is reached or surpassed the system sets off an auto temperature alarm.
Notifications via Email/SMS – Operators or a group of users can be timely alerted via SMS / Email Notifications Alarms.
Breadcrumb Temperature Report – Receive up to date Temperature values for each track point on a vehicle, for selected day ranges. This report can be programmed to automatically be sent daily via email.
Temperature Report for Trip & Idle – Pick a day for a given trip and get the related information for Min, Max and Average temperature values. You can schedule this report to be automatically sent via email each day.
Vehicle Fleet Management
Quick and efficient delivery of Food merchandise is essential. This has to be done using vehicle best suited for the task. Smart Bee has the perfect solution that lets you instantly know the vehicle that meets your requirements and is nearest to the destination and/or the loading site.
Solutions
Fleet View in Real Time – Respond directly to customer calls utilizing Real Time Fleet View about the location of transport. Easily search by group, name, or view available vehicles in a particular area on the map.
Tag Vehicles – Effectively group vehicles into categories to promptly find the type which can accomplish the job as per the requirement. For instance, specifically search only “Semi-Trailer” or “Trailer” vehicles.
Points Of Interest – Smart Bee GPS Server allows you to upload your own POI, such as Food Vendors address and your customer’s delivery address. At a later point of time you can utilize this POI data to produce Time on Site reports to know areas where your vehicles have traveled and the length of time spent on a specific delivery and/or pickup.
Faster Delivery Dispatch
Simplification of dispatching jobs is always welcome for regular customers of food companies. Fundament requirements include Historical information, assignments to the nearest vehicle and job acceptance. Smart Bee tools empower you to accomplish these tasks effortlessly.
Solutions
Job Dispatch thru GPS Server – This feature facilitates efficient administration of dispatch jobs via the Smart Bee GPS Server interface. Carry out your transport delivery tasks in an organized & ready to operate arrangement.
Mobile Dispatch – Facilitates smooth coordination between dispatcher and the driver utilizing a mobile interface. The driver can keep up to date with his assignments by viewing them on his smart phone or tablet’s browser and refresh his current status on the server.
Job Dispatch via Garmin Devices – An administrator can effortlessly send tasks directly to the Garmin navigation devices and using the Chat module also communicate with the driver when his vehicle is not moving.
Improve Fuel Efficiency and Drivers Behavior
There is an increasing need to reduce fuel costs and CO2 emissions. The use of your fleet and drivers optimally are essential. Having the right tools to control your fleet, over factors like excessive speed, harsh driving and drivers accumulated hours will dramatically reduce fuel consumption and improve your staff satisfaction and safety.
Solutions
Easily Configure Speed Alarms – Receive speed limit alerts on basis of real speed limits configured in the OSM.
Generate Reports for Time on Site – Helps you to know location of your vehicle in a specific POI within a selected stretch of time.
View Reports of Driver Working Hours – Following a login by a driver into the platform utilizing an RFID or IButton device, you can initiate a counter to get information related to amount of working hours put in by a specific worker. You can thus determine whether a driver is following the established policies for maximum amount of hours permitted per day.
Reports on ECO Driving – Receive timely and perfect information for a driver to rate him accordingly based on breaking and speed, harsh acceleration etc.
Generate Reports on Fuel Consumption – An accurate report is generated based on a fuel sensor installed in the vehicle. The report displays the date, maximum and average speed, total distance, time for which the vehicle was driven, fuel efficiency and utilization.
Enhance Your Fleet Lifetime
You can keep your fleet in an optimal condition by knowing when a vehicle is in need of maintenance, and also be familiar with which vehicles are available as and when required.
Solutions
Service Intervals for Vehicles – Get timely reminders about when a vehicle in your fleet needs service and maintenance. This way you can effectively extend lifetime of your fleet as you are under better control of the service intervals.