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Remote Sensor Monitoring & Fleet Tracking for Industrial Vehicles
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
- Sensors - Flow Meters
- Sensors - Gas Sensors
- Sensors - Level Sensors
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
- Fleet Management
The Challenge
• To implement fleet tracking with industrial equipment and sensors
How will you know when a pump on any of your trucks is on or off? Or how many RPMs your mobile pumps are running at? If you’ve got vacuums and/or tanks on your trucks then you want to know what the current status is, how they’ve been used, whether or not they’re due for maintenance, and other information available using Industrial IoT Sensor Solutions with Tools.Valarm.net.
The Solution
Some examples our customers use:
• PWM sensor adapter for monitoring flowmeters and fluid flow rates
• Knob sensor for monitoring switches and when industrial equipment like heavy duty vacuums are turned on or off
• 4-20mA sensor adapter to monitor specific gases like H2S, Hydrogen Sulfide, and Volatile Organic Compounds, VOCs
4-20mA sensor adapter to monitor fluid, water, and liquid levels in tanks
The key component in every box on each vehicle, truck, and trailer is the GSM Sensor Hub. Industrial equipment is monitored by the sensors in the box, like the GPS and 4-20mA sensor adapter, which connect to a GSM sensor hub that sends all of the GPS-tagged sensor data to Valarm Tools Cloud.
The vehicle information is uploaded in real-time as often as you need it. And you can easily change how often the fleet vehicles report at any time on Tools.Valarm.net. You can use Time at Threshold Totalizers to know how much time equipment has been turned on and in use. For example, exactly how many hours has 1 of your pumps or vacuums run in the last week? There are also Totalizers for keeping track of exactly how much fluid or water has been pumped with your flowmeters and assets.
• PWM sensor adapter for monitoring flowmeters and fluid flow rates
• Knob sensor for monitoring switches and when industrial equipment like heavy duty vacuums are turned on or off
• 4-20mA sensor adapter to monitor specific gases like H2S, Hydrogen Sulfide, and Volatile Organic Compounds, VOCs
4-20mA sensor adapter to monitor fluid, water, and liquid levels in tanks
The key component in every box on each vehicle, truck, and trailer is the GSM Sensor Hub. Industrial equipment is monitored by the sensors in the box, like the GPS and 4-20mA sensor adapter, which connect to a GSM sensor hub that sends all of the GPS-tagged sensor data to Valarm Tools Cloud.
The vehicle information is uploaded in real-time as often as you need it. And you can easily change how often the fleet vehicles report at any time on Tools.Valarm.net. You can use Time at Threshold Totalizers to know how much time equipment has been turned on and in use. For example, exactly how many hours has 1 of your pumps or vacuums run in the last week? There are also Totalizers for keeping track of exactly how much fluid or water has been pumped with your flowmeters and assets.
Related Case Studies.
Case Study
IoT-based Fleet Intelligence Innovation
Speed to market is precious for DRVR, a rapidly growing start-up company. With a business model dependent on reliable mobile data, managers were spending their lives trying to negotiate data roaming deals with mobile network operators in different countries. And, even then, service quality was a constant concern.
Case Study
Vehicle Fleet Analytics
Organizations frequently implement a maintenance strategy for their fleets of vehicles using a combination of time and usage based maintenance schedules. While effective as a whole, time and usage based schedules do not take into account driving patterns, environmental factors, and sensors currently deployed within the vehicle measuring crank voltage, ignition voltage, and acceleration, all of which have a significant influence on the overall health of the vehicle.In a typical fleet, a large percentage of road calls are related to electrical failure, with battery failure being a common cause. Battery failures result in unmet service agreement levels and costly re-adjustment of scheduled to provide replacement vehicles. To reduce the impact of unplanned maintenance, the transportation logistics company was interested in a trial of C3 Vehicle Fleet Analytics.
Case Study
Zonar Takes the Wheel with a M2M Solution
Zonar’s fleet management solutions collect, report and analyze data before, during and after a vehicle’s trip. The company needed Machine-to-Machine (M2M) connectivity to enable communication between in-vehicle devices and back-end systems. To deliver high volumes of potentially sensitive information from and to moving vehicles – and keep pace with its rapid business growth – Zonar wanted a highly secure solution that it could easily manage and that had the required national and global reach.
