Qualcomm launches ‘Driving Style Reporting’
Maximising the benefits of cost control and sustainability
Improved fuel cost management, the perfect tool to help drivers drive better, and reduce environmental pollution. These are the main advantages offered by the new Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to be launched on the European market by Qualcomm this month under the name ‘Driving Style Reporting’. The new KPIs will mark a significant improvement in the quality and quantity of information available to transportation companies and their drivers.
Qualcomm’s Driving Style Reporting includes many new features based on a range of fuel consumption measurements taken from the vehicle in question. This will enable transportation companies to access more extensive and detailed analysis of their drivers’ driving behaviour, engine usage and other factors that affect fuel consumption. As well as delivering more relevant long-term information, the new KPIs can also guide drivers’ behaviour in real-time, i.e. during the journey itself. The KPIs can be accessed by transport companies via Qualcomm’s FleetVisor Web Portal. Drivers can see the information on the MCP200 mobile on-board computer launched by Qualcomm in the autumn of 2009.
Driving Style Reporting makes it possible to coach drivers when necessary, which may be because of their driving behaviour, the vehicle’s speed, the driver’s use of cruise control or because the engine has been left running while stationary, for example. The new KPIs also improve the information available on a range of other factors that affect fuel consumption, including axle load or the use of Power Take-Off (PTO) and use of the gears. The information is delivered to the transport company’s home base and the driver’s cab in a simple, graphic and therefore user-friendly format.
Qualcomm’s complete Driving Style Reporting package offers transport companies a powerful tool to improve their position in today’s highly competitive market. It enables them to further improve their management of fuel costs, which make up 30% to 35% of operating expenditure. The new KPIs make it possible to gauge whether drivers are improving individual aspects of their driving behaviour. In addition, they give transport companies detailed information and easy-to-read reports that they can use to provide individual coaching to drivers for the longer term.
“Our Driving Style Reporting takes vehicle fleet management in the logistics and transport sector to a whole new level”, says Wim Foederer, Marketing Director at Qualcomm Enterprise Services Europe. “Businesses can make systematic savings on one of their most significant cost items. They can offer their drivers immediate and interactive coaching, therefore saving on hundreds of hours of training. They are even helping to protect the environment. Combined with the new reporting system, the MCP200 can be upgraded to create a real-time eco-driving tool because improved driving behaviour that reduces fuel consumption also has a positive impact on air quality. This means the industry can more effectively manage and reduce not only fuel costs but also its carbon footprint. In the new economy, increasingly stringent standards are being set for the way businesses perform as regards their carbon footprint. Our new Driving Style Reporting maximises cost control and sustainability in particular, but ultimately it is the industry itself that benefits the most.”
The new Driving Style Reporting enhances Qualcomm’s existing state-of-the-art KPI features (fuel consumption, driving efficiency, driver’s scorecard, upcoming vehicle service and distance/time per country).