The IVECO Blue & Me Fleet Management System wins the “Transport Innovation of the Year” international award
The system uses Qualcomm’s FleetVisor communications platform to guarantee that customers have real time information about of the performance of vans and drivers.
Madrid — October 29, 2009 —Iveco has been awarded the Transport Innovation of the Year trophy in the Postal Technology International Awards, held at the 13th international Post-Expo exhibition in Hanover, Germany. This prestigious award was made in recognition of its fleet management telematics package, ‘Blue & Me Fleet’, developed using the combined efforts of Iveco and Qualcomm Enterprise Services, the world market leader in integrated wireless communication and information systems and related services.
Blue & Me Fleet, introduced by Iveco in September 2008, offers customers a state-of-the-art vehicle utilisation and planning management tool, designed to help control vehicle operating costs and improve the profitable use of the vehicle and driver. The system transmits data using the cellular telephone network via the Qualcomm network management system, and all the information is available through Qualcomm’s FleetVisor web portal, which allows the vehicle operator to access the information in real time in his Internet browser. A dedicated integration service allows implementing the data into existing in-house software systems.
The system is able to interrogate the vehicle to obtain data including fuel consumption, distance travelled, speed and overall usage. It also tracks the driver identity so that data can be correlated to form a profile of each driver’s activity. It can also connect to the digital tachograph to allow remote authentication and download of the tachograph data (according to the new specification agreed and published by vehicle and tachograph manufacturers), thus avoiding the need for the fleet operator to directly access the vehicle and download this information to meet the industry’s legal requirements.
“The close cooperation between Qualcomm and Iveco ensures that all business-critical information is at the customer’s fingertips, including details on the drivers, vehicles and cargo”, said Bill Karnazes, Managing Director of Qualcomm Enterprise Services Europe. “This award reinforces our commitment to cooperate with logistics and transportation companies all around the world to create systems based in ultimate technologies for improving efficiency, saving costs and giving better services to customers”.