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FARNEK LAUNCHES IN-HOUSE SMART FLEET MANAGEMENT SOLUTION Custom-built by Farnek’s technology team, the innovative, sustainable and cost-effective initiative underscores the FM company’s smart and green credentials, by optimising its fleet performance and serving its customers more efficiently
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eading UAE-based smart and green facilities management (FM) company Farnek has launched an in-house smart fleet management solution that will not only optimise the performance of its transport fleet, but also improve service delivery to its customers. The solution, which covers Farnek’s entire transport fleet of more than 300 buses, vans and cars across the UAE, was built by its in-house technology division, which after a lengthy process of research and development, has simply and ingeniously adopted and adapted
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the latest smart technology to produce a homemade solution. “This bespoke telematics system has been developed in-house by our own IT engineers, using proven technology and is a Cloud and mobility-based platform. Our fleet is now powered by IoT telematic sensors connected with Google Maps for route optimisation with our drivers, fleet, service schedule and of course our customers, front of mind,” said Javeria Aijaz, Director Technology & Innovation, Farnek. Using Farnek’s live administrative portal, operational staff at its logistics
centre compare vehicle inventory with the current and scheduled demand and issue instructions to the drivers (each vehicle is fitted with a dedicated smart phone loaded with an app). The drivers log in, accept the notification based on a QR code sent to the smart phone in the vehicle and start their journey. The app automatically calculates and compares the estimated and actual journey times and presents the driver with Google Maps-based navigation, to show the most timeefficient route to take. “All vehicles are integrated with an IoT WWW.CBNME.COM
