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The Role of Dashcams in Accident Management and Prevention

tangerine — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 05:40:31 +0000

In the present scenario, installing a Dashcam provides protection from crash-for-cash scams, dashcams help monitor the incident and clear up the accident insurance claims more easily. The insurance company analyzes the hard evidence and comes to a fair judgement. As a result, disputes or disagreements with respect to claims are reduced to a minimum. The whole insurance claims process also speeds up.

Driver Behavior

Many of the factors associated with rising claims during accidents and loss frequency are rooted in poor driver behavior. Statistics from studies show that in-vehicle monitoring with Telematics show a clear relationship between vehicle monitoring and driver behavior. According to a survey, around one in five motorists use a dash cam each time they drive their vehicle.

Driver training

When it comes to new driver training, nothing compares to getting behind the wheel and experiencing life on the road first hand. Footage with a dashboard camera is also an invaluable learning tool, which will provide in-depth insights into various incidents. With driver training, the new drivers can learn to implement the corrective steps in different situations without making the other road users at risk.

Reduced Insurance Premiums

One of the common problems associated with crash incidents is that it increases the insurance premiums for innocent drivers, as the cost of compensation is to be recovered from somewhere. However, the insurance industry is starting to recognize that dashboard cameras may help solve this ongoing problem while reducing false insurance claims and are willing to pass on savings to those who install dashcam systems in their vehicles.

Advanced technology in Telematics

The recent advanced technologies in Telematics, driver scoring, and in-vehicle technologies are quickly transforming the commercial lines insurance. There are new tools and technologies that ensure to acquire richer and more precise data from diverse sources. This data can be used to produce comprehensive driver profiles and scores, generate direct feedback to drivers, and encourage safe vehicle operation.

Vehicle Monitoring

One of the main advantages to installing dashcams is that they provide video evidence of each incident that helps to determine the fault quicker. Vehicle monitoring systems ensure managers use data received from telematics devices such as GPS trackers to receive real-time insight into driver behavior and asset management.

Fleet Tracking

Dashcams help locate, track, and manage your vehicles in real time. The Fleet tracking feature helps your fleet meet customer demand for fast, accurate, and seamless service, and ensures operational efficiency.

Accident Analysis

With Telematics and Dashcams, you can keep track of your fleet while they are in the field or after they return. You can use the GPS-based fleet tracking device to locate active drivers and vehicle locations. In case of an accident get in depth analysis into the incident with continual video to gain more insight into the cause of the crash.

Final Words

With Tangerine’s solution for fleet management, you can analyze and understand the factors leading to a crash. The accident analytics system segregates the accident from non-accidents with a highly intelligent Jido vision and Vehicle telemetry. You can also ensure that insurers assess driver behavior and segregate at-fault claims from no fault claims. With the help of Tangerine’s Crash Analyzer, you can put an end to the false insurance claims fraud. The Crash Analyzer also enhances the functionalities offered by Tangerine’s fleet management solutions with a comprehensive and detailed reporting of an accident.

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Improving Fleet Safety with Telematics

tangerine — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 06:04:51 +0000

Fleet Management can be stressful and sometimes frustrating to operate. However, some of the advanced fleet software ease your workload by providing visibility and actionable insights that drive good results for your organization. Despite the continuous efforts of fleet safety managers, fleet owners, and industry risk managers, accidents still happen. Even with those companies operating with regular driver safety meetings, fleet safety training programs, enforced and strict safety policies, and strong driver hiring practices will still experience accidents. Fortunately, there is an advanced and most powerful tool, Telematics, that is available for fleet managers that can help companies reduce their fleet safety-related costs.

Telematics is a combination of telecommunications and informatics that can gather data on the driver and fleet in real-time to help companies and drivers improve fleet safety.

Benefits of Telematics in Fleet Management

When Telematics is used in commercial vehicles, the data provided can vastly improve driver behavior and fleet safety. When applied across fleet safety, information provided by telematics can give companies insight into the effectiveness of safety training, safety policies, driver hiring processes, and vehicle maintenance.

The ways in which Telematics can help your company improve your fleet safety culture are as follows:

GPS Data:

The Telematics systems come with GPS locators that monitor vehicle location, total distance traveled, and vehicle speed. Also, telematics allows you to map out faster routes, safer routes, and get updated information on traffic and construction. Also, companies and fleet managers can use telematics systems to get emergency assistance to drivers in case of an accident or breakdown.

Driver Scorecard:

An onboard Telematics system allows fleet tracking along with driver behavior such as speed, braking, accelerating, idling, and any behavior you think is guaranteed. The system gives your driver a score, which the company can use to augment driver training, or to apply rewards or disciplinary actions.

Driver Feedback:

Beyond the data, the fleet telematics systems can give commercial drivers a voice on how to improve fleet safety. By empowering drivers to communicate with fleet managers, telematics can help employees provide their valuable feedback and report concerns before they become accidents or costly issues.

Risky Behavior:

Understanding what are the distractions for your drivers help you build better fleet safety programs and stronger disciplinary actions for prohibited behaviors. The Driver behavior is often attributed to unsafe behaviors, such as using mobile devices for text messages, changing radio channels, or talking on the phone while driving. Telematics determines if your drivers are using seat belts, conducting safety checks, or securing loads.

Why Choose Tangerine

With the introduction of Jido Sense, the solution enables to minimize the risk of vehicle theft or misuse by remotely monitoring vehicle location anytime on the Tangerine’s fleet platform. Communicating with drivers on the road is much easier with a telematics system. By simplifying the communication process, the drivers are automatically checked in and reports are provided instantly.

When adopting a fleet telematics operational system, it is more important to communicate to your drivers the focus on safe driving and how critical their feedback is. The compact design and easy setup are suitable for self-installation, saving time and money, for fleet owners. With more processing cores and high clock speed of Jido Sense, you can record and upload incident videos based on thresholds of braking, speeding, cornering, and so on. The AI-enabled solution allows your existing dashcam for monitoring driver behavior, detecting and giving alerts on drowsiness, distraction, or fatigue all in real-time.

Final Words

Today’s telematics solutions are relying on the third-party devices to transfer and receive data. As more cars and trucks arrive network-connected from the factory, it is expected that by 2025 the organizations will take over this role from device makers by offering vehicles with integrated telematics. This in-turn allows telematics service providers to focus on data analytics, supplying customers with the high-value insights and intelligence they need to make better decisions faster, about everything from optimizing operations and fleet management to improving customer service. The technology helps reinforce and encourage safe driving practices, but it can also open the lines of communication and empower drivers to play an active role in improving fleet safety.

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Vehicle Protection Tips

tangerine — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 06:36:38 +0000

Anti-theft allows tracking of vehicles in real-time and controls it in the case of theft. To prevent vehicle theft, you must implement new systems based on new technologies to help vehicle owners track vehicle, control, and recover it. Tangerine’s anti-theft system includes a combined low-cost, effective, and reliable anti-theft technology to monitor and control stolen vehicles in real-time.

Some of the most common challenges in fleet security are as follows:

Cargo Theft

Most Cargos include cargo inventory that can sell quickly on the secondary market. The fleets that transport common goods are top targets for thieves. Without the cargo or asset monitoring in place, thieves can break into trailers undetected. The cargo theft causes delivery delays and increases your insurance premiums. With proper anti-theft in place, you can ensure a single source of information from planning to production, enabling companies to lower the risk and reduce cost throughout the supply chain.

Fuel theft

With more drivers transporting essential goods, instances of fuel theft or card skimming can add up significantly. Without accurate GPS locations of where drivers fill up the fuel tanks, it can be difficult to detect fuel theft and track where cards are skimmed or overfilled. To overcome this problem, Tangerine includes a built-in fuel efficiency module that indicates the fuel tank levels, fuel consumed, and fuel purchases in real time. This data is then compared against a vehicle average, making it easier to detect any abnormalities, or a possible indication of fuel theft. This can also be used to monitor a fleet’s fuel economy.

Asset recovery

Once vehicles or assets are stolen, it is a challenge to track if they are not equipped with GPS tracking devices. In addition, with the cargo that is often very far away from the main central dispatch office, it is difficult to gain remote visibility into the security of your assets. With an efficient anti-theft device, it is easy to detect when the trailer or container doors open and close for added security and protection.

Fleet Hijacking

To protect against vehicle hijackings, it is critical that the drivers must have a fast way of discrete communication with the main central office. With Tangerine’s fleet management platform, there are alerts that trigger during an emergency situation and provide critical information to aid assistance, including the driver’s exact location.

Tangerine’s Anti-Theft Solutions

Solutions that we offer to overcome the problems of theft are as follows:

IoT Accessories

With Tangerine’s AI, you can ensure that all relevant data to an incident gets captured in a high definition video. With the Jido Vision you can ensure and get the facial recognition capabilities, identify the driver, and notify fleet owners in case of any unauthorized access.

Live Tracking

With the live tracking using the AI-Powered fleet analytics, you can get notified when the devices are inactive or are tampered with. With just a click of a button, you can allow fleet managers to take action with law enforcement and save precious time during an emergency. With the integrated dash cam facility, the GPS coordinates to quickly track down the stolen vehicle.

Real-time Alerts

With real-time alerts, you can ensure your vehicles are staying within your storage and delivery areas, without unnecessary distraction. The geofence alerts sends you a notification when a vehicle breaches the set parameter. Whenever an alert is triggered, you can simply click the link from your smartphone and view the real-time vehicle location right from your mobile device.

Secured Fleet Safety

To maintain the highest safety standards and safeguard your people and assets, we offer camera solutions with built-in AI that enables you to track and monitor your fleet. With the integrated built-in sensors, you can ensure complete visibility of driver and vehicle at all times. Optionally, you can safely immobilize a vehicle if stolen or a suspected theft and get real-time alerts.

Final Words

By being aware about fleet security and taking proactive measures to minimize auto theft, you can improve your fleet performance, educate your drivers about the basic vehicle security, such as parking the vehicle securely.

Vehicle yards are one of the popular targets for fuel thieves, so make it difficult for thieves to get in unnoticed and leave without a trace. With a real-time visibility into where the vehicles and assets are located, the anti-theft system allows you to help you react to emergencies in real-time, and increase your vehicle’s security by disabling it in the event of theft or misuse with just a click of the button.

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Importance of Fleet Safety

tangerine — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:45:00 +0000

Fleet safety is a major focus when businesses require a fleet of vehicles to move their products from one location to another. Some of the most important goals of fleet safety are to address the rise in at-fault accident rate and create a safety-first culture during the implementation of fleet safety. With a good fleet safety platform, you can easily analyze the road risks, reduce the accidents, increase efficiency, fleet tracking in real-time, and monitor fuel usage and idle time across your entire fleet. It is not only important to avoid the accidents and risks, but also determine which risky driver behaviors you need to address, such as harsh braking, speeding, and distracted driving.

Safe driving habits include:

Maintain focus: Avoid texting, eating/drinking, talking to people, that takes your attention away.

Be alert: Avoid driving when tired/sick.

Maintain gap between vehicles: Maintain safe distance while driving.

Follow traffic rules: Always follow traffic rules, signals, and speed limits.

Why Tangerine?

Our AI integrated data and analytics platform, helps your organization drive sustainable and profitable growth for fleet safety. With one single platform, you can monitor the vehicle performance, track improvements, and ensure to provide a seamless user experience to manage your fleet.

Complete Visibility of Driver and Vehicle

Tangerine includes Jido Sense with built in-sensors and multiple interfaces to provide complete visibility of driver and vehicle. You can minimize the risk of vehicle theft or misuse, by remotely monitoring the vehicle location using the Tangerine’s fleet platform. Also, real-time alerts are triggered for Geofence breaches, unauthorized vehicle usage, rash or aggressive driving, and device tampering.

Always-on-Connectivity

With Jido Tracker you can ensure ‘always-on-connectivity’ that provides real-time monitoring of the assets. With Tangerine’s asset tracking solution, data is precisely generated and with AI, it is very easy to predict battery consumption, trigger alerts, and assist asset owners to view actionable data insights.

Access Driver Information

With Jido Apps, Tangerine offers new custom brand applications, feature-rich mobile applications, and access information related to driver-score, idle time, fuel consumed, and so on. The application provides AI-based driver behavior scoring on acceleration, braking, crash detection, and speeding with support on both native android and iOS platforms.

Availability of IoT Accessories

With IOT Accessories, you can add additional capabilities using IoT in Fleet management and enhance fleet’s safety and boost operational efficiency. Tangerine’s IoT sensors can be integrated easily with the smart devices to access using a variety of applications such as Bluetooth or USB based devices. The additional sensors are available to detect temperature, tire pressure, and so on.

Ensure Advanced Vehicle Detection

By using Crash Analyzer, you can ensure an advanced AI-powered vehicle detection system that segregates accidents with non-accidents, vehicle telemetry data, and dashcam feed. The system also detects and extracts any sudden changes in the speed. The drivers can also identify the root cause behind an accident, helping fleet owners assess driver behavior and segregate at-fault claims from no fault claims.

Additional Features

With the stress-free fleet tracking, you can gain access to Operational KPIs such as driving and idle time, engine hours, distance covered, and total active hours for smart decision making. Tangerine’s camera solutions with the built-in AI enable drivers to overcome the limits of the human capacity and ensure fleet’s safety at the highest level.

Fleet Safety

The Tangerine’s built-in and advanced AI enables you to solve and overcome the limits of human capacity. With the help of Geofence perimeter, notifications are triggered the moment any of the assets breach the fleet safety rules. The AI-powered dashcam is integrated with Sense+ device to provide a next-generation fleet intelligent monitoring system. With most of the built-in advanced features, the camera captures all incident videos and uploads the same to the Cloud server for automatic analysis. With more actionable insights, Tangerine’s Fleet management provides one of the best solutions for safety, productivity, and increases the overall efficiency of fleets.

Final Words

It is important to encourage drivers and fleet owners to follow safe driving practices. With the help of driver scoring, you can monitor the performance of the driver and also recognize the improvement over a period of time. With the Tangerine’s user-friendly platform, you can ensure stress-free fleet tracking data such as vehicle utilization, current location, driver-vehicle allocation, and so on. To keep assets at high performance levels and prevent breakdown, you can plan scheduled fleet maintenance and daily inspections. Tangerine solution enables fleets to deploy, operate new mobility services, and manage shared fleets.

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