The three predominant requirements of any fleet operator in the current global economic climate are:

• Safe fleet operation leading to reduction of incidents and in turn associated cost.
• Protection of company assets.
• Operational efficiency and in turn reduction in cost.

The above requirements have resulted in the growth in development of fleet management systems that can offer the fleet operator assistance to achieve these goals of ‘Safety, Security and Savings’.

Zone Safe II is a vehicle based control system that uses cutting edge, body worn RFID (Radio Frequency IDentity) tag technology to provide a multi functional, flexible, vehicle control, monitoring and logging solution that is simple in use yet provides the fleet operator with an invaluable tool to help achieve the above outlined requirements.

Some key benefits of the system are:

• Reduced fuel and running costs.
• Reduction in carbon foot print by reduction of exhaust emissions.
• Elimination of the risk of prosecution resulting from leaving the vehicle running and unattended on a UK highway.
• Improved vehicle security and reduction in the risk of theft.

• Limits the operation of the vehicle and associated equipment to authorised personnel.
• Logged information can be used to analyse the operation and improve efficiency.

The Zone Safe II system vehicle control system provides the fleet operator with peace of mind by ensuring that vehicles within their fleet are operated only by tag bearing, company trained, authorised personnel, which in turn reduces the Health and Safety risk of unauthorised operation and potential accident and injury to others, which could result in litigation, prosecution and associated substantial costs, in the form of legal fees and compensation to the ‘injured party’.

In limiting operation of the vehicle to authorised personnel, the possibility of theft of the vehicle and loss of asset is reduced, once again avoiding substantial cost to the operator and providing the potential to reduce insurance premiums.

By using the system to remotely stop and restart the vehicle’s engine with the egress and ingress of the authorised tags into the detection fields, many of our customers have enjoyed a considerable reduction in fuel consumption and therefore running costs, but in turn can demonstrate a measurable reduction in ‘carbon footprint’.