In business activities such as logistics, transportation, maintenance / security services, and sales etc., where vehicles are used, more improvement of economical efficiency is required, not only for basic efficiency on business operation, but also for environmental impact, such as CO2 reduction, easing traffic congestion, enhanced fuel consumption, eco driving, and so on.
Hitachi offers support solutions for improving customers' business efficiency based on the effective management of vehicle operation used for business activities surrounded by the above demands.
In this service / solution, Functions to manage the progress status and delivery operation condition from start of the vehicle to the collection of goods, delivery and end of work; Position management function to display and manage vehicle position on a map; Function to make a daily driving report automatically from operation history; Assessment of safe driving and eco-driving based on driving records, and more; Integrated support to customers' business efficiency improvement is available.
In conformity to customer purposes, (1) Vehicle navigation systems for commercial vehicle, or (2) General purpose in-vehicle terminal for business use is provided.
In consideration of the operational environment of commercial vehicles, which are supposed to be used for a longer time compared with the vehicles for personal use, we realized heavy duty type of vehicle navigation system for commercial vehicle "Solid Navi" by adopting flash memory as the recording media of map information, etc. and eliminating mechanically movable parts such as DVD and fan. And, 12V / 24V compatible power supply is adopted, so Solid Navi is applicable to not only vehicles with 12V power supply on which popular vehicle navigations can be operational, but also vehicles with 24V power supply such as trucks and buses without any transformer. Furthermore, in order to cooperate with center business systems, standard interfaces are equipped for connecting various communication modules used for business applications.
And, "Solid Navi" also supports; the Functional screen feature which is useful to design screen layout for business operation and better cooperation with center management, Data acquisition feature relating to safety driving, and easy start-up operation feature without network communication, but using USB memory.
With high flexibility, scalability, and operationality for supporting various fleet management systems adequately, the terminal can be configured to meet various needs of businesses applications. Also, its outstanding flexibility on application development, system update, and system expansion are available compared with conventional terminals developed by individual design, thereby it ensures long term support for the business scale-up.
By installing software for fleet management system in the general purpose in-vehicle terminal for business use (manufactured by Clarion Co., Ltd), the terminal supports to improve the business efficiency and achieve the fleet management with considerations to safety and environment by real time tracking of vehicle status.
