What are the Ways of Developing Fleet Management Software?

What are the Ways of Developing Fleet Management Software?

Author image By Nidhi Desai  |  Thursday, April 13, 2023 10:10 AM  |  5 min read  |   1112

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What is Fleet Management Services?

Every organization that relies on commercial vehicles engages in some form of fleet operations and fleet management. An organization’s fleet management department oversees all fleet performance and fleet maintenance to increase productivity.

A fleet manager is responsible for overseeing fleet operations, including vehicle maintenance, fuel consumption, fuel costs, driver management, asset utilization, route planning, and the implementation of programs that increase productivity and reduce waste.

Governments and schools use vehicle telematics data to optimize service and response to citizens by analyzing fleet vehicles, vehicle location, service delivery, and coverage, driver behavior, community safety, routing, dispatch units, diagnostics, and preventative maintenance.

Automobiles, trucks, vans, aircraft, and ships can be managed with a fleet operation management system. You can use various types of fleets for things like:

  • Tracking and diagnostics of vehicles,
  • Managing fuel,
  • Maintaining vehicles,
  • A field service management system,
  • Optimization of routes and routing,
  • Tracking of assets and equipment,
  • Delivery management,
  • Management of drivers.

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Defining Fleet Management Software

Using fleet management software, organizations can arrange, oversee, and facilitate work vehicles from a central data framework, keeping the general fleet activity running smoothly.

Fleet management software pricing and cost models can vary depending on the business needs. It is often considered a heavy investment to purchase the best fleet management software. For a business organization that employs these tools for efficient fleet management, this significant investment can yield a great deal of profit.

How to Develop Fleet Management Software?

To develop Fleet Management Software, you don’t need to start with a sophisticated system. The best way to improve the performance of your team is, to begin with, a minimal viable product (MVP) that is easy to use and easy to adopt. Then, progressively add additional features that fit your company’s development and immediate needs.

Step 1: Conducting Research

You need to define your product’s requirements and business goals: what type of fleet software you need and what challenges you want to address. As an example, you’d like to create a fuel management app that will reduce fuel costs by 20%. Driver management software can enhance drivers’ skills, minimize vehicle damage, and reduce repair costs and idle time.

To choose the right tech stack for the project, the software development team must have a well-formed set of business requirements and goals.

Step 2: Hire a Fleet Management Company

The development of a custom fleet management system can take time and resources, so it’s best to hire a dedicated team with proven expertise.

Step 3: Gathering Key Features

It’s time to identify features and describe your expectations for optimizing business processes in a company.

Start with a minimum valuable product (MVP). A prototype lets you validate your idea without investing a lot of money in a full-fledged app. Only the most important features will increase your team’s performance in the MVP model.

As your product generates profit, you can reinvest it into developing new features.

Step 4: Development Process

During the development stage, the fleet management software is designed, developed, tested, and deployed according to approved requirements.

To ensure that the software is bug-free and works following the test plan, the QA engineers run multiple tests.
The team prepares a product demo so that you can test the functionality. Software is released if it works correctly.

Step 5: MVP Releasing

The MVP can then be launched on target markets to test your project’s whole concept, identify weak spots, and continue development based on feedback from users.

Step 6: Maintenance

After the software is built, the development process does not end. You should consider maintenance if you want your product to last for years.

The following are usually included in project maintenance:

  • Improvements in performance
  • Optimization of code
  • Enhancing existing features
  • Third-party service support for the latest versions

What are the Benefits of Fleet Management?

Managing a fleet of cars or any other vehicles can be challenging, regardless of their size. According to Government Fleet’s annual benchmarking survey, 75% of fleet managers use fleet management software or vehicle telematics to support day-to-day operations in at least some of their vehicles.

By using predictive analytics and accurate reporting, fleet vehicle management companies can give fleet managers real-time insight into their operations.

What are the Features of Fleet Management Software?

What are the Features of Fleet Management Software?

A fleet management system is an essential tool for companies with a fleet to ensure cost-effective and productive operations. Listed below are the five essential features you need in your fleet of vehicles, along with their benefits:

1. Vehicle tracking using GPS

GPS tracking devices are essential for GPS vehicle tracking and fleet management systems. With these devices installed in your fleet, you can access real-time information about the location and movement of your vehicles. With a professional telematics solution, you will be able to access this information, so you will know where your vehicles are, where they started, and where they stopped. Aside from increasing productivity, you will also be able to provide customers with ETAs for their vehicles. To save money, fuel-level sensors, open doors, and more can also be added to the system.

2. Analyzing driving behavior

Driver behavior can be monitored and measured by the best fleet management systems. You can analyze acceleration, harsh braking, speeding, and over-idling with a driving behavior analysis module. The feedback can then be shared directly with drivers so that they can correct poor habits and prevent accidents. Moreover, drivers will be able to drive more economically, resulting in significant fuel cost reductions. Additionally, maintenance costs and downtime tend to decrease.

3. Alarms for fleets

Companies can use alarms to respond quickly to any fleet-related difficulties. Your fleet management software should allow you to set custom alarms based on your needs, for example, to monitor speeding or the temperature of heat-sensitive goods. It is important to stay up-to-date on changes to make sure vehicles operate efficiently and productively.

4. Fuel management

As fuel costs represent a large part of a company’s budget, fleet managers are concerned with reducing fuel consumption. This module allows you to monitor fuel levels and see how often vehicles are refueled and drained. By doing so, you and your team will be able to identify leaks and thefts as soon as possible. The fuel level can be permanently measured and alarms can be set to alert you and the driver whenever draining occurs. The average fuel consumption per vehicle and time period is also calculated.

5. Route planning and monitoring

Are your fleet’s routes optimized? By monitoring routes and anticipating future events, you will be able to make better fleet management decisions, minimize fuel consumption, and increase productivity. There will be a faster arrival time and a better customer experience for customers.

Conclusion

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FAQs

1. What is the role of telematics in enhancing driver safety?

A wide range of industries is benefiting from telematics systems and in-vehicle technology, including driver fatigue, vehicle maintenance, and fuel efficiency and planning. Telematics has also contributed to driver safety in recent years.

2. How does a good fleet management system work?

Rather than taking a hardware-based approach to fleet management, a good fleet management system takes a solution-based approach. With a solution-focused approach, the system will be better suited to solving problems and meeting users' needs.

3. How does a fleet manager perform his or her duties?

Fleet Managers are responsible for planning, directing, managing, coordinating, and supervising the acquisition, assignment, utilization, maintenance, repair, replacement, and disposal of fleet vehicles. The fleet manager is also the primary contact for fleet operations and fleet maintenance.
 


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