Why you should integrate tire and vehicle scanning to your fleet management system

1. What are Fleet Management Softwares?

In order to manage company vehicles or rental cars, many fleet managers turn to Fleet Management Softwares (FMS). These dedicated platforms allow companies to record and keep track of various tasks and activities. By having a better overview and understanding of their system, it becomes easier to make data driven decisions to improve efficiency, control costs, keep track of vehicles, manage drivers and improve business operations.

Among other things, a FMS helps fleet managers with:

• Vehicle tracking – Thanks to telematics like cellular triangulation, GLONASS, and GPS, it becomes easy to track vehicles in real time. Fleet managers can view the location of each vehicle and optimize routes or create business-relevant maps.
• Data reporting – Data reports improve the monitoring of operations, as well as maintenance activities.
• Inventory management – It’s also possible to track inventories, such as spare parts or tires.

FMS access real-time data to update every parameter at all times. If this gives an even better and more accurate fleet overview, it also means that fleet managers have to collect and process a lot of data.

2. Why is data gathering the Achilles heel of FMS?

FMS are powerful tools for fleet managers, but they are only as good as the data you feed them. Unfortunately, the full potential of many FMS are limited by a lack of necessary data, as well as by inefficient and manual methods of data gathering.

For example, if route optimization and vehicle tracking are important to keep operating costs low, fleet managers should consider tire tracking. Tires are an asset and should be considered as such: they have a huge impact on fuel consumption and operating costs, especially with the nowadays rising prices. The problem with tires is the difficulty to record valuable data into FMS – with the data being molded into sidewalls, most tire data capture is still done manually.

Similarly, keeping track of vehicles and parts can become a significant burden for employees when they have to enter data such as license plates, vehicle identification numbers (VINs) and vehicle part numbers, using manual data capture methods. Not only are these processes time consuming, but often result in erroneous data entering the FMS. Identifying and correcting these mistakes is time consuming, costly, and causes losses to worker productivity which the introduction of digital tools should work to prevent!

4. How can Anyline be integrated?

One of Anyline’s data capture technology’s biggest assets is that it can be integrated directly into any fleet management department’s existing system or mobile apps that fleet managers can use on their personal smart devices, such as smartphones or tablets. Integrating Anyline mobile data capture into an FMS allows fleet managers to:

• Track and record tire and vehicle data quickly and efficiently.
• It doesn’t require important investment and ownership costs, as it can be integrated into any device you and your technicians are already using.
• It’s easy to use and workers don’t need to learn how to use new devices.

Anyline’s SDK is easy to integrate and is backed up by hands-on support from customer service teams ready to help at every step of your project. It works with Android and iOS smartphones and offers support for common integration frameworks including Xamarin, React Native, Cordova and Flutter.
You can find out if tire scanning is the right solution for you by downloading our Mobile Data Capture Demo App to test its capabilities, or by reaching us today!