Tata Motors connects 500k vehicles to fleet Edge platform
Tata Motors announced connecting 5 lakh commercial vehicles with Fleet Edge. Fleet Edge is a connected vehicle platform that helps businesses optimize their vehicle’s operations, reduce costs, and improve safety. This is designed specially for efficient fleet management. Fleet Edge uses smart technologies to increase vehicle uptime and improve road safety. The platform shares action-able insights in real time on vehicle status, health, location and driver behavior of every vehicle connected to it. This enables owners and fleet managers to take better decisions for enhancing operational efficiency, lowering logistics costs and improving profits.
Key features: Tata Motors Fleet Edge
- Real time vehicle health insights
- Track and trace vehicles
- Driving behavior alerts
- Fuel consumption analysis
- Access to point of interest data
Speaking about reaching this first-of-its-kind milestone, Mr. Bharat Bhushan, Head – Digital Business, Tata Motors commercial vehicles, states, “Tata Motors is committed to making logistics more seamless and efficient. Fleet Edge has been a real game changer in this endeavour with its strong value proposition, data-based intelligence, real-time insights and vehicle prognosis enabling smarter fleet management. Lakhs of our customers are seeing immense value in using it. They are benefiting from the increase in operational efficiencies and lower total cost of ownership of their trucks. As true partners, we are working closely with our customers to make their businesses more successful.”
Fleet Edge comes with a user-friendly interface that displays an array of inputs received from various sensors pre-installed in a vehicle to regularly monitor vehicle health and increase its uptime with ready alerts for timely maintenance. It also analyses driving patterns to suggest fuel saving techniques and tracks driving behaviour.
Tata Motors has equipped all its commercial EVs, medium and heavy trucks, and buses with Fleet Edge readiness, featuring an embedded 4G SIM. The Telematics Control Unit (TCU) is AIS 140 compliant, with safety and security functions. Advanced algorithms analyse data inputs from these smart vehicles on multiple parameters to present several value-adding insights. Fleet owners and managers can accordingly take better and informed decisions as per their business need. They can choose from Standard and Advance subscription schemes as per their requirements to optimise the Fleet Edge platform.
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