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Planning for fleet electrification is sparking extensive conversations about what vehicles to buy, when to buy them, and the holy grail of lowering the total cost of vehicle ownership.

In the years since the first fleet telematics solutions were introduced, the ubiquitous black boxes have become the equivalent of a Swiss Army knife for optimizing vehicle and driver performance. Read on for five examples of newer telematics uses that are emerging to address the evolving needs of automotive and work truck fleets. 

Trailers have traditionally been a blind spot in fleet management, leaving operators without visibility into critical issues such as trailer location, maintenance needs and open cargo capacity. That means there has been less oversight of the moneymakers of the fleet – the reefers, box trucks and semi-trailers that carry the cargo that pays the bills…

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the use of cameras in commercial fleets can be worth thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in fleet protection.

Almost every fleet management tool available today is part of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapidly growing network of devices that collect and share data for analysis.

Driver scorecards have been used for over a decade for a variety of purposes ranging from measuring idling, number of trips, ELD compliance and time on site to identifying drivers who present a significant safety risk, but they have been an imperfect solution for safety monitoring. 

The use of artificial intelligence is bringing important new value to video telematics, adding functions such as real-time alerts that help drivers avoid collisions and smart event analysis that saves fleet managers hours of time by reducing false-positive reports of risky driving behavior. But the widely touted use of “edge AI” in which virtually all…