How it Works

The Navman Vehicle Management System is a technology that allows you to locate your vehicles on a computer screen, report historically on vehicle activities, communicate to field staff, and navigate them directly to job sites. This is made available by using a combination of GPS (Global Positioning System) technology, the mobile phone network, internet, digital mapping and the Navman OnlineAVL software.
A number of satellites are used to identify the vehicle’s position in latitude and longitude, which is then stored in the ‘Qube’ located within the vehicle. The Qube also records other information such as when the ignition is turned on/off, and in some cases when other events take place such as PTO on/off. Every few minutes the Qube sends the vehicle location and event information back to a secure Telstra server using the mobile phone network. You can then access the OnlineAVL software over the internet allowing you to have live visibility of your fleet, extensive historical reporting on vehicle activities, and the ability to send jobs out to your drivers who can be navigated on their way at the push of a button.
Before the mobile phone network was well established the only way to get real-time information back from the field was to send it via the satellites, which was the equivalent to having a tracking system and satellite phone in each vehicle (making the technology very expensive). Now, with the further development of the mobile network, it is far more cost effective to send information from the vehicle to your computer, which is why there has been a large price drop in recent years and a corresponding surge in demand. With the help of FleetlinkGPS, more and more business owners are beginning to realise the benefits of making their fleets more efficient and more productive.

Components
 

Qube The Qube is the brains of the system. It records GPS position via satellite, as well as the events occurring for each vehicle (ignition on/off, speed, idling, geofence entry/exit, message sent/received, PTO on/off etc.). Within the Qube is a memory as well as a SIM card, which the Qube uses to send this information back to the secure Telstra server.
Online AVL software Online AVL can be accessed on any, and any number of computers via the internet. The user/s log in with password details and can now view the current location of all vehicles in their fleet on street level mapping. At the click of a button they may also bring up what any particular vehicle has done throughout the day so far, or report historically on previous days' work. A boundary can be set up to identify the site of any or all of your customers. Individual reports may then be run on exactly how long your staff have spent on that particular customer’s job site. Alternatively, you can run a report on any one of your vehicles which identifies arrival and departure time from each job, time spent on site, as well as trip distances and travel times for whatever happens in between. The Online AVL software can also be used to send out messages or job details. In a few clicks you are able to find a destination, locate the most suitable staff member, and send this destination out to the vehicle with message details attached. From there the driver merely reads the message, hits ‘accept & go’, and immediately the dispatcher is notified of job acceptance, and the driver is being directed by in-car navigation to the job site.
M-Nav-760 The M-Nav is an in-car navigation device touch screen, Bluetooth, which has the extra functionality of being able to send and receive messages, and the smarts to be able to read coordinates embedded in messages to route the driver from message to site in the push of a button.
MDT For job roles that purely require the ability to communicate with field staff, the MDT provides the facility for drivers to send messages back to base, and the operator to send messages out to drivers.