Global Positioning System (GPS) has been a boon to the transport companies. This technology has bought along with it a multitude of benefits that has enabled all the businesses to save costs and improve their efficiency. For companies who have a big or small fleet of vehicles especially the transport company’s one of the biggest benefits of having a GPS enables vehicle tracking system is that it saves them a lot of money on fuel costs.
Fuel tracking and mileage tracking are a part of the GPS tracking system and they track the vehicle fuel usage in real time. Based on the analysis of the driver’s habits the fuel usage can be optimized on the basis of the results. GPS tracker in the vehicles can help save the fuel costs in many ways:
Reducing Idling Time:
Excess idle time can eat up to 20% of the fuel costs of a vehicle. Idle time of the vehicle occurs mostly when it is sitting in the traffic. Other reasons include driver parking and not shutting off the engine. Not only that idling can also damage the engine cylinders, spark plugs and exhaust systems. It is recommended that if the vehicle is idle for more than one minute the engine should be shut off. The GPS tracking can calculate idle time and therefore a business can better educate and train its drivers to save fuel costs.
Regulate over speeded:
Although the speed of up to 180mps looks good on the speed o meter of the vehicle it is not advisable that the drivers exceed the speed limit at any time. GPS trackers calculate the speed of the vehicle on the basis of the distance covered and the time taken. Over speeding can stress the engine and increase fuel consumption. Tracking vehicle speed and notifying the driver in real time can help reduce the fuel usage and thus save the company some money.
Track vehicle Maintenance requirement:
A fuel efficient vehicle is the one which goes under regular maintenance at all times. Fuel and mileage trackers as a part of the GPS trackers can help in maintaining the vehicle by regularly giving maintenance alerts. These alerts are computed on the basis on the time the engine has been on. Service alerts, when followed, can help save the company on the fuel costs.
Harsh Breaking and Acceleration:
Both breaking and acceleration can cause the engine to put in more effort to maintain with the changing load. Driving habits require to maintain and optimum speed for fuel consumption optimization.
Unnecessary air conditioning use:
The use of air conditioning when the vehicle is not in motion also increases the fuel costs. Therefore excessive air conditioning is monitored by the fuel trackers to help contain the wastage.
Using the best route:
The best possible route can easily be calculated on the basis of the traffic, the condition of the road, and the type of the vehicle. This includes the calculation of red lights, wait times and stop and start traffic. It is not mostly about taking the shortest route but it is about taking the best route. GPS trackers utilized both the real time and stored data in them to calculate the best route which is both, time and fuel, saving by reducing the idle time and miles driven.
With the use of fuel tracker a company can quantify and accurately isolate the areas where fuel consumption is higher and how economy can be improved. This way the businesses can gather and monitor the data and identify changes to me made and what will be worthwhile. Correct fuel economy can save regular fleet thousands of rupees. gps tracking device for trucks can help the companies educate their employees better in their driving habits and thus help save the fuel costs.
About Transync
Transync is one of the few brands in India that manufactures Smart GPS Tracker or Advanced Tracker. Transync is the flagship brand of Volty IoT Solutions Pvt Ltd, based out of Hyderabad, India. Unlike others, Transync designs, develops, and manufactures the device indigenously. We are proud to be actively replacing imported GPS Devices by providing homegrown, more accurate and indigenously manufactured devices. Transync is one of the market leaders in the GPS device market in India and we have hundreds of thousands of trackers currently deployed on field and are working with various State Governments in India and some large MNCs such as Volkswagen, Ford, Mahindra etc. to build custom solutions.
We have different kinds of GPS Trackers like – TRANSYNC-P2 Basic Tracker, TRANSYNC-L1 Advanced Tracker, OBDII+ On Board Diagnostics, TRANSYNC AST-211 Asset Tracker, TRANSYNC B2 for bikes and ThingSmart RFID reader.
