WebTech Wireless™ & Garmin®

The Leaders in Fleet Management and GPS Navigation for Your Fleet

Managing your mobile assets has never been more challenging. Monitoring and controlling costs, many of which you have little or no control over, make great demands on your resources and your drivers. You need innovative technologies that help you manage your fleet, and empower your drivers with the tools they need to help you do it.

WebTech Wireless™, the leader in location-based and telematics products and services, has partnered with Garmin®, the leader in GPS Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs), to provide the most complete fleet management solution for the industry today.

Small Measures. Big Gains.

Whether you operate ten vehicles or ten thousand, effective fleet management is all about increasing your operating margins. Experience has shown that even very small percentage gains in route optimization, fuel use, maintenance, etc., can have a major impact on your bottom-line over the course of months and years. It can mean the difference between profit or loss.

Real World Results

Studies show that drivers using in-vehicle PNDs, compared to traditional maps and printed route plans, drive better and safer.

• 35% reduction of unnecessary stops and idling
• 50% fewer traffic violations
• 20% less time spent navigating
• 78% feel less stress on the job
• 60% feel they drive safer

This can have a direct impact on your operation.

• 16% reduction in distances driven
• 18% reduction in time
• 12% decrease in insurance claims
• Similar reductions in fuel use and CO2 emissions

Not only does this make your operation more efficient, safer and greener, but it also increases employee job satisfaction and enhances your customer service.

Seamless Integration

WebTech Wireless’ complete solution seamlessly integrates:

• The leading-edge technology of the WT7000 Series Locators™,
• The full range of Garmin nüvi® PNDs, and
• Our powerful Quadrant™ fleet management software.

WT7000 Series Locators

With a highly sensitive GPS engine and memory to spare, the WT7000 Series Locators are built for any fleet management challenge.

Key features include a 3-axis accelerometer for driver behaviour modeling and accident alerts and recording, and embedded Bluetooth®, which provides dial-up networking and hands-free voice communications for dispatchers and drivers operating fleets of all types and sizes.

The ‘always-on’ WT7000 connects directly to the nüvi® via a special cable, for secure, fluid data transfer.

Garmin nüvi®

The Garmin nüvi® family of PNDs are portable, affordable and ultra-easy to use. Their tough, yet light and functional design means you can take them anywhere for instant navigation – whether in your pocket or on your vehicle’s dashboard. Large, easy-to-read colour 2D and 3D maps, turn-by-turn voice directions, and intuitive touch controls, make localization and navigation a snap.

Garmin nüvi® comes in a variety of models, and with useful standard and optional features such as – JPEG picture viewer, currency and measurement converters, calculator, photo navigation, travel guides, and more.

Quadrant

WebTech’s powerful Quadrant fleet management software receives location and telematics data from the Locator over mobile phone networks and provides the critical link between dispatchers and drivers.

Quadrant gives fleet managers real-time location mapping and status, as well as a variety of reports to monitor and analyze fleet and driver performance over time. The information Quadrant provides can help you increase efficiencies, safety and customer service – all of which impact your bottom-line.

Real-time Benefits

The WebTech Wireless/Garmin solution gives you and your drivers unparalleled advantages in the field.

Navigation

• 2D and 3D colour mapping
• Turn-by-turn visual and voice instructions
• Traffic alerts and detour suggestions
• Important landmarks and points of interest
• Speed camera alerts (where available)
• Instant “Where am I?” function
• Estimated time of arrival

Messaging
Communication between dispatchers and drivers has never been easier, more efficient and safer.

• Real-time 2-way messaging
• New message pop-up alerts
• Message delivery status
• Quick (canned) messages and responses for safer hands-free operation
• Multiple language support

Dispatch

The WebTech Wireless/Garmin solution allows for single and multiple destination dispatching and support.With single destinations, the dispatcher can select the nearest vehicle to each destination. When the driver reaches the destination and completes the assigned task, (e.g. delivery, repair, etc.) this status is either updated automatically by the system or manually by the driver.

With multiple destinations, dispatchers can select a series of locations, letting the system automatically route drivers to each one in the most efficient sequence, all the while tracking their progress and status.

Telematics for the Planet™ and ecoRoute™

WebTech Wireless and Garmin are dedicated to the development of innovative technologies aimed at helping our customers reduce their environmental footprint.

With WebTech’s Telematics for the Planet™ and Garmin’s ecoRoute™ initiatives and products, you now have the tools you need to considerably reduce your fleet’s CO2 and contaminant emissions – and at the same time reduce operating costs.

WebTech Locators and Quadrant are highly effective tools that allow you to monitor fuel use, engine maintenance and driver habits to achieve immediate and ongoing savings.

Garmin’s innovative ecoRoute™ technology automatically provides drivers and dispatchers with the optimum routing to achieve the least fuel use possible, based on their vehicle’s characteristics, distance, time, and road conditions.

Together we can help your organization significantly reduce costs while at the same time ‘green’ your fleet and your community. Technology that’s good for you and our planet.

View the News Release here.