Αδιάβροχες συσκευές Gps Tracker για την παρακολούθηση και ασφάλεια των σκαφών
Vehicle theft remains a growing challenge, reaching new heights in some countries. It is a major concern for fleet owners in the leasing and rental industry. Fortunately, Teltonika asset GPS trackers can help overcome this challenge and help businesses save valuable resources and avoid inconvenience.

Αδιάβροχες συσκευές Gps Tracker για την παρακολούθηση και ασφάλεια των σκαφών

Downtime is a major obstacle for businesses in the manufacturing and distribution industry. E-forklift malfunctions can lead to lost staff and orders, adding to already soaring operational costs. It can also create a negative reputation among customers. An effective way to manage this issue is by implementing a performance monitoring system and prompt reporting. Fortunately, Teltonika e-forklift management solution offers just that.

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Managing e-forklift fleets can be a complex and challenging task and there are several key challenges to consider. The average operating cost for an electric forklift can be estimated by considering various factors such as the initial purchase price, maintenance, and fuel costs. A brand-new electric forklift with standard capacity might cost between $20,000-45,000, with an additional $2,500-5,000 for a battery and charger.

One of the key challenges is ensuring that batteries are properly charged and maintained to ensure maximum uptime and productivity. This requires careful monitoring of battery levels, charging times and usage patterns to optimise battery life and reduce the risk of downtime due to battery failure. According to the study, preventive maintenance reduces equipment downtime by 30-50% and extends the life of your forklift by 20-40%. Planned maintenance may cause downtime, but it is much less expensive than unplanned one.

Another difficulty is managing fleet performance and utilisation, including tracking usage patterns, identifying areas of inefficiency, and optimising routing and scheduling to reduce idle time and improve productivity. So, fleet managers need to consider the cost of tracking and maintaining equipment.

It is essential to track the cost of maintenance and repairs to ensure that the fleet is operating efficiently and cost-effectively. Teltonika Telematics has to offer a practical solution that can be integrated into a wide range of e-forklifts, offering a variety of benefits.

SOLUTION

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To showcase our solution, we chose Teltonika TFT100 tracker, which has been specifically designed for the e-mobility sector and supports a high voltage supply range of 10-97 V. This GPS tracking device is compact, water-resistant, dustproof, and IP67 rated. It comes with an internal high gain GNSS and GSM antenna, Bluetooth® LE connectivity, and a large 1,800 mAh internal battery. It also has multiple interfaces and an impressive set of practical usage scenarios, including the Manual CAN.

The versatility of TFT100 makes it ideal for a variety of electric vehicles, including e-forklifts, providing valuable information such as distance driven, exact location coordinates in real-time, speed monitoring, battery status, working time logging, etc. All of this data can be conveniently accessed via a dedicated software application, allowing you to monitor e-fleet from a single location or any smart device with an internet connection.

How it works – to take advantage of TFT100, it is necessary to install and configure it on each electric forklift. Once set up, the tracking device uses satellite-based technologies to collect multiple real-time metrics, including location, movement, electric battery level, CAN bus data, etc. TFT100 transmits this information via a GPRS network to a dedicated server to monitor and manage fleet performance. This allows managers to track each forklift in their fleet in real time while gathering information for any necessary events and optimising daily operations.

Even more, the Manual CAN feature, which allows to manually configure the device to read specific data, makes TFT100 GPS tracker an indispensable part of an e-forklift fleet. By providing the actual data about the performance of each vehicle, unexpected breakdowns can be minimised or avoided. In addition, predictive maintenance ensures timely and effective management of any size fleet, significantly minimising downtime and saving company resources.

Electric battery life monitoring is also made easy with this solution, which can provide accurate battery status on demand for specific tasks. Going further, iButton and Immobilizer scenarios help authenticate forklift operators, allowing managers to track employee hours, productivity, and behaviour. In the event of an accident, the Crash detection and Fall-Down scenario provide valuable information about an accident, helping to identify the cause, prevent future incidents, and improve workplace safety.

TOPOLOGY

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BENEFITS

  • Proactive maintenance scheduling – Teltonika TFT100 can help you schedule planned maintenance for each forklift and keep track of equipment efficiency, preventing unexpected downtime and ensuring higher productivity.
  • Improved e-fleet utilisation – real-time forklift location tracking and in-depth analysis of user operations, forklift hours, its movements and order completion can facilitate data-driven workflow improvements, optimising fleet utilisation and reducing downtime.
  • Optimised battery management – Teltonika GPS tracker helps to better monitor and manage electric forklift batteries, resulting in longer battery life, faster replacement, and optimised fleet size.
  • Improved safety and compliance – TFT100 can help monitor and manage e-forklift speed, hard acceleration, and hard braking, reducing the risk of accidents and ensuring better compliance with safety regulations.
  • Improved visibility and coordination – real-time location data from GPS tracking can improve daily operation planning and coordination, reducing the risk of delays or other disruptions, resulting in cost savings and increased efficiency.
  • Reduced operating costs – GPS tracking device TFT100 can help optimise routes and improve overall e-fleet efficiency, resulting in lower power consumption and reduced overtime costs.

WHY TELTONIKA?

Efficient fleet management starts with accurate data, and that is exactly what we provide. Having successfully addressed and solved the challenges of tracking and monitoring e-forklifts, we offer a practical choice from Teltonika – TFT100 tracker with a robust IP67-rated casing, easily adaptable to a wide range of IoT projects with extended usage scenarios, helping to efficiently manage electric fleets in the manufacturing and distribution industries.

With a proven track record in IoT and telematics, Teltonika offers solutions tailored to the growing e-mobility sector. Our product portfolio integrates with fleet management systems, providing actionable data to improve productivity and sustainability. Whether operating a warehouse, logistics hub, or industrial fleet, Teltonika helps companies to make intelligent, data-driven decisions to improve efficiency and ensure long-term cost savings.

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Car theft is a real headache for fleet managers and business owners, especially those involved in leasing and car rental. According to NICB, more than 1 million cars were stolen in the US alone in 2022, reaching such a number for the first time since 2008. Fleet News provides data on increased vehicle thefts in the first half of 2022 as lockdown restrictions were lifted.

 

Regular vehicle trackers help to solve this concern, but they are harder to hide because they need to be connected to a power source – vehicle battery. Experienced thieves expect to find a GPS tracker and will try to locate it, so some solutions require a tracking device that can be easily hidden in different parts of the vehicle without leaving a trace, making it much more difficult for thieves to find and compromise such devices.

Finally, companies are always looking for ways to make their operations more efficient. Labour costs are usually a significant part of a company’s expenses and having a tracker that doesn’t need to be installed and can be placed anywhere in the vehicle would be very useful, especially in countries where labour is expensive. Fortunately, Teltonika Telematics has just the right device to meet all of these challenges.

SOLUTION
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To secure a vehicle wirelessly and reliably, we use TAT140 asset tracker with 4G LTE connectivity. It’s very easy to hide anywhere in the car, there is no need to connect any wires, and it provides accurate GNSS location tracking.

How it works – Teltonika TAT140 model can send records in a variety of ways depending on the exact project requirements:

Movement-based periodic tracking, where can be chosen different tracking periods when the vehicle is moving and when not. So, fleet owners can choose to report more frequently when the vehicle is on the move and less frequently when it’s parked to extend battery life.
Managers can also choose to receive only movement events. In this way, TAT140 would send separate records when the vehicle starts to move without location data (if the GNSS fix was successfully caught last time), allowing the record to be sent faster and the vehicle owner to be informed of the movement. Thus, the fleet manager would be informed and could take immediate action if the vehicle starts moving when it shouldn’t.
The third option is to use the weekly scheduler, where operators and managers can simply choose to receive records at the specified time on selected days. For example, two records on a regular day and three records per day on days when the crime rate is higher in a particular area.
Another key advantage of this solution is that TAT140 is in Sleep mode most of the time. This means that if thieves use a signal scanner to find the tracker, they won’t be able to detect it while it’s in Sleep mode and won’t be able to remove it. Later, the asset GPS tracker would wake up to send the periodic or scheduled record that confirms the vehicle’s location.

In the event of a theft, a fleet operator or manager can activate the Recovery mode of TAT140, enabling frequent reporting and greatly increasing the chances of finding and recovering the stolen vehicle. The Recovery mode can be triggered by a simple SMS/GPRS command. Please note that the tracker would only respond to the command if it wakes up according to the periodic or scheduled tracking settings.

TOPOLOGY
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