Iveco Wins International Innovation Award
Iveco, designer and manufacturer of a broad range of light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles as well as public service vehicles, have been honoured with the Transport Innovation of the Year trophy in the Postal Technology International Awards for their fleet management telematics package, ‘Blue & Me Fleet©’, which was first introduced by Iveco at the 2008 International Hanover Truck Show.
Blue & Me Fleet is designed to help control vehicle operating costs and improve the profitable use of the vehicle and driver. The system is able to interrogate the vehicle CAN BUS to obtain data including fuel usage, distance travelled, speed and overall usage and can even connect to the digital tachograph to allow remote authentication and download of the tachograph data saving time and, when individual driver data is assessed, fuel consumption.
The product is the result of a joint venture between Iveco and Qualcomm, the global leader in fleet management solutions, whose telematics services are fully compatible with the Blue & Me Fleet onboard computer platform, allowing customers to obtain real-time information from across their fleet. The Blue & Me Fleet hardware transmits data using the cellular telephone network via the Qualcomm network management system; from there the vehicle operator can access key information via the FleetVisor web portal.
Blue & Me Fleet can be specified on any new vehicle in the Iveco range from 2010 onwards.
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