Operational Control and Maintenance Platform for Road Safety

Problem

A company dispatches rescue units when a road accident occurs. The following are the numerous challenges that often hinder the company from providing timely support:

• The lack of location information on the rescue unit closest to the operation area, which would take time to arrive, causing a higher possibility of a critical result for victims in the accident.
• The lack of statistical data made it difficult to generate road safety actions: a black point (three or more accidents with victims occurring within the 1 km distance) requires special signaling, speed bumps, road layout modifications, etc.
• The lack of management over rescue units sometimes makes them unavailable for operations because of another accident or being under maintenance.
• Fuel consumption and driver behavior management were also unavailable.

Solution

There is a need to have a platform that can successfully address all the client’s challenges in which the hardware installed in every vehicle of the client’s fleet (FLSs and trackers) sends all the collected data to the platform. After the dispatchers get the notification of the accident, they can locate the area and send the closest rescue unit for support. In the system, they can track the rescue unit’s movement and can calculate the arrival time.

After the accident is attended to, more information about it can be added to the system later with the help of police reports. It adds up to gathering statistical data. The rest of the collected data contributes to the company’s fleet management: fuel consumption optimization, driving style assessment, etc. Later, the service provider plans to add the feature of vehicle maintenance control, which is being developed at the moment.

Benefits

The client can avail of a reliable platform that accumulates all the necessary data and helps save lives effectively.

·       Online monitoring

The location of rescue units can be displayed on the map, which helps identify the closest operations unit to the accident site.

·       Analytics and statistics

The data analysis makes it possible to identify the most dangerous sections of the road and initiate road safety actions there.

·       Response time reduction

Support can arrive sooner, which helps save more lives.

·       Cost-Efficiency

The fleet operations can be optimized, and the company can spend less on fuel, and maintenance, and the vehicles are used more efficiently. With the statistics available it is possible to further investigate where it is possible to cut costs in the future.