Top-performing organizations rely on data analytics to maximize fleet performance and financial returns. For fleet operators striving for peak performance, Solera SmartIQ will help you reach it. You can only fix what you can measure. SmartIQ empowers you to benchmark performance, quickly identify what’s working and what needs improvement, and take targeted actions to ensure optimal results. As fleets generate vast amounts of data, the SmartIQ transportation intelligence suite analyzes it in real-time, transforming raw information into actionable insights that enhance safety, fuel efficiency, and other critical performance metrics.
Quickly identify what is and isn’t working
You can only fix what you can measure. SmartIQ lets you benchmark performance to quickly isolate what’s working and what isn’t and pinpoints the steps you need to take to ensure everything is working exactly as intended.
SmartIQ welcomes data from other sources
SmartIQ is fully flexible. You can choose to use SmartIQ’s prebuilt analytics or combine it with your own data feeds. Third-party data is also easily integrated into SmartIQ’s analytics engine
Gain full visibility into fleet performance and operations
SmartIQ analytics helps you identify underutilized vehicles and drivers and keeps you apprised of vehicle misuse. Easily access data on safety, fuel consumption, and driver productivity in one place to identify and address underperforming areas.
Know if the actions you take are affecting fleet performance
SmartIQ’s integrated performance management closes the loop with safety, fuel, and operational performance measurements so you know if the actions you’ve taken should be maintained or reevaluated.
Optimize fuel economy and reduce idling time and costs
With the cost of fuel, even tiny savings can boost profit margins significantly. SmartIQ can help you identify the drivers, driver behavior, and the root causes behind excessive idling and fuel use for corrective training.
Measure, benchmark, and improve driver performance
Use SmartIQ data to build a strong Culture of Safety that can spread throughout the fleet. Analytics can help you develop and retain better, safer, more professional drivers and reduce crashes and their consequences by eliminating the riskiest driving behaviors.
Solera SmartIQ Streams integrates multiple data sources
Smart IQ Streams extracts data on your drivers, vehicles, safety performance, and operations data collected by the Solera SmartDrive video analytics platform to integrate with third-party business intelligence solutions.
Solera SmartIQ Pro includes our team of data scientists
SmartIQ Professional Services empowers your team with custom analytics and visualizations that are developed by Solera’s data scientists and transportation intelligence experts. This added resource gives your team a solid foundation for sounder decision-making.
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Fleet performance data in SmartDrive SmartIQ is accessed through a secure, cloud-based analytics platform. Users can log in via the SmartIQ web portal, where they can view dashboards, generate reports, and analyze trends using customizable data insights. Additionally, API integrations allow fleet data to be accessed within other fleet management systems, ensuring seamless visibility across operations. Data can be exported in multiple formats for deeper analysis and compliance reporting.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) play a large, growing, and indispensable role in modern fleet management. AI can help monitor engine performance, temperature, and wear-and-tear to anticipate maintenance needs, while ML algorithms can help predict future part failures. AI and ML can also predict fuel consumption and create fuel-efficient and customer-friendly routes. AI and ML are also used to improve safety performance by tracking and analyzing driver actions. These technologies improve asset utilization, compliance, and reporting and aid in strategic decision-making.
Several different metrics and fleet management KPIs are used to gauge performance. Safety performance metrics include critical events, harsh braking, rapid acceleration, poor cornering, speeding, and the number of events over a given distance and time frame. Efficiency metrics encompass idling, off-plan miles, miles per stop, quantity per mile, off-day deliveries, and capacity utilization. Productivity metrics include quantity per service hour, quantity per total runtime hour, stops per route and routes per day, and miles driven. Customer service can be measured by planned vs. actual service time, off-day deliveries, canceled stops, missed time windows, the condition and completeness of the delivered freight. Financial metrics cover total transportation costs plus cost per stop, cost per mile, and the cost per quantity delivered.
To support fleet performance management, telematics data provides real-time and historical information about the vehicle and drivers that fleet managers can use to improve multiple areas of fleet performance. Telematics data on vehicle diagnostics can provide insights into maintenance issues and scheduling. It can help identify drivers that are wasting fuel or engaging in risky driving. Telematics data can help improve routing, reduce overtime, and improve customer service. Fleet capacity can be used more efficiently, idling time reduced, safety scores improved, and regulatory compliance maintained to reduce the cost of fines, all through the power of telematics data.
Predictive analytics uses AI and machine learning to identify patterns from the fleet’s telematics data and identify potential problems before they become actual problems. The insights arising from predictive analytics can be applied to both immediate situations and long-term strategies. It can anticipate maintenance needs, predict trends in fuel consumption, identify drivers at risk of leaving for other fleets, mitigate future accidents by analyzing driver behavior that can lead to incidents, assist with optimizing fleet utilization, and generally help control costs and mitigate potential problems throughout the fleet.
A wide range of fleet management and operational roles would benefit from using SmartIQ data. Senior and C-Suite executives can use SmartIQ to gauge overall fleet performance on a macro level and see which areas are doing well or poorly. SmartIQ can assist safety managers in improving individual drivers’ safety performance and creating programs to improve safety throughout the fleet. Operations managers can identify underused vehicles and maximize asset utilization. Fuel managers can use SmartIQ to identify areas where fuel usage metrics can be improved. Dispatch, routing, business analytics, customer service managers, and procurement can all take advantage of the metrics provided by SmartIQ to improve nearly every area of fleet performance.
SmartIQ gathers data feeds of drivers, vehicles, and driving performance collected by SmartDrive video analytics platform, so SmartDrive SR4TM cameras will have to be installed on the vehicle.
