Crystal Ball launch smartphone fleet management and tracking application
Manchester-based company, Crystal Ball, has launched a new smartphone application which is set to revolutionise the industry, protect employees and significantly reduce costs for fleet operators.
The downloadable application – available on GPS-enabled phones such as Blackberrys, Nokias, HTCs, Samsungs, and Sont Ericssons – means employers are no longer reliant on installing more expensive GPS tracking boxes. This means that employers can have mobile handsets, fleet vehicles and assets tracked as well as protect lone workers using mobile phones.
And the Crystal Ball system’s versatility will revolutionise the grey fleet vehicle sector, where the UK currently has five million ‘own-vehicle’ users – as employers will no longer have to repeatedly install and de-install conventional tracking boxes in vehicles which don’t belong to them.
Unlike conventional vehicle-based ‘black-box’ tracking systems, as well as giving extensive live data, the system can also keep on monitoring workers after they have left a vehicle, giving greater peace of mind and a fuller solution to firms with lone workers and other personnel out in the field.
With 400 dealers already set up to sell the application the company expect this figure to grow by 50% in the next two months.
It has been developed to help businesses locate and monitor workers as part of companies’ duty of care obligations and other important legislation such as the Working Time Directive and Corporate Manslaughter.
The system feeds back live information, recording speed, journey time, distance and precise location as well as incoming and outgoing mobile phone call and text information through a web-based system.
The system has a comprehensive reports suite and the information is held for three months on the system so it can be downloaded and saved.
Employers can also monitor the information in real time via their computer screen and it can be accessed anytime and anywhere in the world.
Raj Singh, managing director of Manchester-based Crystal Ball, has 25 years’ experience in the mobile phone sector.
He said that the downloadable smartphone application brings a totally fresh and innovative dimension to vehicle tracking and lone worker protection and employee monitoring.
With his Crystal Ball team of software experts, he has spent three years and the company has invested hundreds of thousands of pounds developing the revolutionary system, which brings together a host of hi-tech innovations.
Raj explained: “It is predicted that the number of smartphone users will reach almost 1.4 billion by the end of 2015. We are right at the forefront of the smartphone revolution – technology all integrated and in one place – your phone!
“There is also no need for customers to invest in the additional cost of installing conventional vehicle tracking when they are able to simply use the GPS technology embedded within their mobile phone.
“Customers that don’t have GPS smartphones are generally able to acquire these for free when they upgrade their mobile contracts.
“The system’s uses are endless. It can help businesses improve their customer service, productivity, efficiency and profitability and help management protect their employees at a fraction of the cost of conventional vehicle tracking.
“Crystal Ball mobile tracking is also more versatile than conventional vehicle tracking. Employers don’t have to worry about re-installs and de-installs of equipment in their vehicle fleet or taking vehicles off the road to fit the technology when they can use mobile phones to track their workforce.
“The amount of legislation that exists out there is frightening and businesses are liable for so many things today. Our technology can help them cope with that. It gives real-time information and is as portable as a phone.”
Raj believes that only around 20 per cent of businesses are currently using tracking systems and the number will double or even triple within the next five years, with the low cost of mobile tracking applications fuelling this growth.
He predicts that much of that expansion will be driven by the duty of care rules, together with health and safety legislation that bosses now have to comply with.
Raj concluded: “Businesses want to improve productivity, reduce costs and improve customer services at a time when fuel prices are still soaring and the VAT rate is due to increase. Tracking can help them achieve this and our mobile and flexible system gives them the perfect and affordable user-friendly tool.”
The system is available from only £6.94 per month per handset and is available through hundreds of re-sellers nationwide.
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