Telematics systems providers like Sensium Fleet Telematics produce cost effective, multi-faceted, informative, robust and dynamic driven data solutions for increased safety and productivity.
Sensium is a highly regarded developer/supplier of hardware and web-based mapping and tracking systems, which started in New Zealand 17 years ago.
Today, Sensium is a global telematics developer/provider with R&D facilities in both New Zealand and Australia.
Still a New Zealand company guided by its founder Jeremy McLean, Sensium developed an immensely successful product portfolio – including the flagship TB2-20 vehicle telematics hardware and its UI (user interface) Sensium Connect Fleet Vehicle Telematics dashboard.
In 2018, Jeremy saw the automotive industry begin to embrace vehicle electrification, but the telematics industry lacked the agility to support the emergence of EVs as fleet vehicles, with data acquisition for optimal EV operation being about as robust as reading tea leaves.
To address this, Sensium devoted its 10 years of telematics experience and strength of in-house development to give fleet managers already used to the idea of conventional vehicle fleet management data, the ability to access similar information from an EV.
This led to Sensium’s TB2-20 system being able to access, interpret and store vehicle data direct from the vehicle’s CAN-Bus (Controlled Area Network) system – something conventional telematics systems don’t do.
Telematics systems for conventionally fuelled vehicles can provide an overall fleet health assessment, track odometer readings, service history, monitor vehicle movement via GPS, with other sophisticated capabilities like driver identification.
Sensium can do all this with the highest level of dependability due to locally manufactured hardware, software and support.
“In addition,” says Jeremy, “the TB2-20 system can live-manage EV vehicles – tracking data on the battery’s state of charge, state of health and temperature, as well as tyre pressures and temperatures, the EV charging state, seatbelt operation and any diagnostic trouble codes – alongside everything it can do for conventional ICE vehicles.
“This goes a long way to ‘normalise’ the EV for the traditional fleet manager’s consideration,” he adds. “Our system demystifies the day-to-day operation of EVs and puts them on a par – in terms of management anyway – with conventionally-fuelled vehicles.”
As a by-product of gleaning a wealth of information and having the ability to recall it from the Cloud, the state of health of an EV can be easily verified – a useful consideration when it comes to the eventual on-selling or disposing of the vehicle, not dissimilar to a service history if you like.
The ability to ‘read’ an EV’s inner workings via CAN bus truly maximises the return-on-investment potential of electric vehicles in the fleet. To find out more, visit the
www.sensium.nz website.
