Key Features You Should Not Miss To Boost the Performance of an Asset Management System With an asset management system in place, logistics and transportation business is going to experience another sure-footed leap. The latest asset management system rings to the automobile industry a whole array of tracking features. From tracking shipments in logistics to tracking rental cabs or fleets of vehicles to tracking even bicycle couriers, you have fully equipped real-time tracking system in place. Most importantly, such asset management system built for modern transport and logistics come loaded with cross-platform integration, geofencing, and map-matching technologies. Here in the course of this post, we are going to have a look at the key features of this modern asset management and tracking systems that are being widely adopted by the logistics and transport industry.
Image Source: - rilcoinblog.com Tracking assets over a map in real time Thanks to integrated mapping systems powered with latest geolocation tracking technologies, the precise location of your goods can be tracked on a map in real time. For logistics companies, the speed of asset tracking with the precise location is crucial to their operational efficiency and security of assets. While precise mapping of mobile assets becomes easier with such technology, this also helps them preventing human errors and saving manpower time for tracking goods.
Integrated asset tracking system across platforms The new breed of efficient asset management systems in logistics business doesn't come with the constraints of accessing them from only control room dashboards but these new systems are versatile and flexible enough to allow access from multiple operating system platforms including the mobile platforms like iOS and Android. The real-time tracking of assets can also be made available now through mobile apps. Precision driven calculation of distance and ETA In logistics and transport industry figuring the distance between destinations and the Estimated Time of Delivery or ETA are two crucial factors to ensure operational efficiency. An asset management system equipped to analyse real-time traffic data over maps of different locations can actually be most effective in ensuring this. With real-time traffic tracking and analytics, a mobile asset management system can grab more precise data and render most effective guidance for the vehicles on the road. Contextualizing GPS data All the data collected through GPS sensors on a map look noisy and haphazard. They often lack precise geophysical context for the mobile assets to be managed. This is precisely why a highly equipped asset management software built for the logistics business can actually make this contextualisation easier by rendering a Map Matching API. Such integrated API can help to trace a vehicle in a clean manner with precise street names and landmarks around. Geofencing technology to give alert with arrival and departure Finally, a cutting-edge software with location tracking comes equipped with Geofencing technology which draws a virtual boundary around the location of a mobile asset. This helps in sending an alert whenever a vehicle leaves from that location or arrives within that designated virtual boundary. This automates the process of geo-location tracking, especially when you need to be aware of the time of arrival and departure.