Thursday December 8th, 2005

Netistix Announces Release 2.1 at Climate Change Conference

FleetPulse Release 2.1 Includes many Environmental Friendly Features

Publication: Canadian Transportation and Logistics

12/7/2005
Netistix Technologies releases fleet management product
posted by Julia Kuzeljevich

KANATA, Ont.—Netistix Technologies has released version 2.1 of its telematics FleetPulse product, which provides fleet operators and managers with native fuel consumption monitoring, advanced exception reporting, smart GPS capture that further enhances fleet operators’ return-on-investment in the product.

The company made the announcement today at “World of Solutions”, the Climate Change Solutions Showcase being held as part of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Montreal this week.

“The major upgrade in Release 2.1 is the ability to calculate fuel consumed by the vehicle based on mass airflow (MAF) data from the engine,” says Gord Echlin, President and CEO of Netistix.

“This feature virtually eliminates the costs of spillage. With MAF-based fuel consumption data in hand, fleet managers no longer have to take fuel receipts at face value or perform time-consuming odometer readings, ” Echlin adds. “As a result, fleet operators can dramatically reduce costs by eliminating spillage, while fleet managers can spend their time on high-value tasks such as driver training and optimal route planning.”

Mass airflow is the primary measurement used by native engine computing units (ECU) to determine how long fuel injectors are kept open, providing highly accurate and timely information about a vehicle’s actual fuel consumption.

Fleet managers can now use the FleetPulse interface to automatically generate and email customized exception reports to various stakeholders, says Echlin, and those exceptions are now configurable, meaning that fleet managers can set specific thresholds and automatically generate reports when those thresholds are exceeded.

“Every fleet and every fleet stakeholder has a different level of concern based on the organization’s interests or the characteristics the task each vehicle performs,” explains Greg Prue, Director of Product Development at Netistix. “FleetPulse 2.1 recognizes these needs and provides data customized to suit.”

Prue went on to explain that with Release 2.1, its GPS capture feature has been further optimized through integration with custom-off-the-shelf (COTS) GPS devices and smart analysis.

“Rather than simply capturing GPS data at regular intervals, FleetPulse now recognizes key driving events such as change of direction and triggers the GPS system to capture the data at that point in the vehicles route. This provides an optimal tradeoff between memory limitations of technology and the route information that a fleet manager really needs to maximize fleet performance and costs”, he said.

Release 2.1 also provides fleet managers with the option of enabling an audible alarm in the FleetPulse unit. Based on a pre-defined speed threshold, the unit will beep to remind the driver of speed restrictions while the vehicle is in motion, addressing the problem the moment it occurs.

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