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GPS/Telematics

Integrating your GPS and Telematics Equipment

If you have a fleet of newer equipment, you have access to GPS and telematics data from the equipment manufacturers. This data is extremely important for you, but since you are so busy, it can be difficult to get any value out of it.

The data provided includes equipment locations, hour meters for preventative maintenance, idle time reports, and more. This is critical data you need, but it’s challenging to stay on top of it.

A big problem for you is that you likely have heavy equipment from multiple manufacturers such as CAT, John Deere, Komatsu, etc. This means you have to log on to multiple GPS/telematics systems to get the full picture of your fleet.

This takes up too much time when you are focused on your projects and getting the job done.

You need to be able to access all your equipment data in one place. This is what TelematicsVO can accomplish for you. We integrate with all equipment manufacturers and third party GPS/telematics hardware.

In one mobile friendly platform, IVO gets you the information you need by:

  • Showing all equipment locations through geofences, with your GPS-enabled pieces moving automatically in the system
  • Automatically reporting preventative maintenance items through custom alerts based on your needs
  • Providing daily and weekly idle time reports so you can understand where the equipment is, what pieces were idling, and for how long

You may also have equipment that does not have GPS/telematics available. IVO can help with this as well. You can move equipment in the system with two clicks from any device, and from the field or office with TrackVO.

Additionally, you can track preventative maintenance and work orders just as easily with MaintainVO.

IVO can help you regardless of the makeup of your fleet. We’d be happy to show you how we can meet your specific needs on a short 20 minute demo.

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Preventative Maintenance

Managing Preventative Maintenance

This is our maintenance dashboard alert list. It's part of our preventative maintenance tracking feature.

Both during the busy season and outside of it, it is challenging to stay on top of preventative maintenance and repairs.

You try to collect all the latest information needed and store it by memory or an excel table, but the same communication and data collection issues still remain.

You need current hour meters and work orders.

You get frustrated when you need a piece of equipment that requires service. Worse yet, a piece gets missed in the shuffle of mobilizations and breaks down due to missed PM.

There are several preventative maintenance software programs available, but most do not truly integrate with the rest of your daily operations such as project/equipment locations, dispatching, and crew scheduling.

Keeping track of maintenance for your equipment doesn’t have to be difficult. With MaintainVO, tracking and scheduling for preventative maintenance has never been easier.

You can create automated preventative maintenance schedules and alerts, based on customizable hour meters and set dates and durations.

You can easily integrate with any GPS telematics data from multiple fleets with TelematicsVO, meaning all smart and “dumb” equipment can be aggregated into one simple platform.

Additionally, you can create work orders and set up email or text notifications to responsible parties of upcoming preventative maintenance work.

Equipment work order history is automatically saved and can be reviewed at any time. Daily and weekly maintenance reports are available for easy review (and can be emailed too).

Your mechanics have custom user dashboards that show open and closed work orders as well as equipment technical details and history. This creates a to do list with priorities and at the same time creates a complete historical record for your specific equipment.

Don’t let your mechanics time and knowledge go to waste, create detailed reports that help everybody from the parts runner to the owner have the information you need when and where you need it most.

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GPS/Telematics

Reduce your equipment idle cost through automated reporting

The solution to reducing idle time

Idle time can be difficult to curb. All machines will have idle time and sometimes high idle percentages are necessary depending on work performed.

Receiving daily automated idle reports with TelematicsVO, an extension of TrackVO, like the one below helps management see the root cause of idle time because you know what, when, and where the machine was working. This process improves project/operator accountability across the company.

The problem with using manufacturer system reporting

The biggest obstacle to monitoring your idle time is that typically you have multiple manufacturer systems that you must access to view your data.

Our solution is to automatically bring your data into one system which produces your reports in a consistent format on a regular basis to provide actionable data to the people who need it and when they need it.

If you are interested in these idle time reports or any of our other great features, we’d be happy to discuss it further with you on a free 20-minute consultation.

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GPS/Telematics

Integrate your existing Telematics/GPS Equipment

Get value from your existing equipment

Our mobile-friendly system integrates with telematics systems that report on the latest AEMP/ISO standards including Caterpillar, John Deere, Komatsu, Volvo, Hitachi and others. This is done in our TelematicsVO module, an extension of TrackVO. Connecting your equipment allows you to:

  • View equipment locations in one platform, no more logging into multiple systems
  • Have equipment locations automatically updated in our system based on GPS location
  • Receive regular idle time reports via email allowing you to see which machines are idling, how much, and where they were each day
  • Automatically bring in hour meter readings to keep preventative maintenance schedules up to date

We work with mixed fleets too. Integrate your non-GPS equipment for manual one-click location moves in the system. If you are interested in this or any of our other great features, we would be happy to discuss this further with you on a free 20-minute consultation.