Navman Wireless releases new fleet management platform: Drive

Navman Wireless announced the release of Drive, a suite of applications built to enhance driver efficiency, productivity and safety. The new app suite combines fleet management, communication, navigation, dispatching, and documentation systems into one user-friendly driver interface.

“Fleets expose themselves to risk and inefficiencies with distracted driving, manual paperwork, and untimely exchanges of job site information,” said Sid Nair, director of group marketing and product management at Navman Wireless. “Businesses need a single platform to get real-time updates on daily jobs and driver activity. Drive empowers fleet vehicles to stay connected, focused, on time and safe.”

Navman Wireless Drive app suite features include:

• Navigation and Routing: Drive allows drivers to map job locations or other key landmarks from an interactive map screen. Managers can send routing information and updates directly to a driver’s cab using their Navman Wireless OnlineAVL2 GPS fleet management software platform.
• Voice-activated and voice-guided navigation. Drivers can customize a keyword prompt and enter a destination using simple spoken commands. The navigation quickly maps the journey, using voice guidance to lead the way.
• Easy two-way communication: Driver and dispatch two-way messaging keeps drivers connected and their managers updated, reducing dependency on email, texts and phone calls. All driver communication is managed via one interface, directly from the inside of the vehicle.
• Paperless, customizable forms. Using OnlineAVL2, fleet managers can create and customize digital forms and send them as messages to a driver’s cab. Drivers can collect customer signatures; order details; see invoicing and more.
• Instant signature capture: The Signature Capture tool is readily available with the Forms messaging option for signature capture and delivery confirmations right from the field.
• Engine Monitoring System (EMS). Through OBD-II or J-Bus connection, Drive’s EMS feature allows drivers to see engine parameters on their in-vehicle displays, such as speed, RPM, temperature, fuel, and oil pressure, enabling a driver with insight into their engine.
• Trucking Attributes. Commercial drivers can find the safest routes, avoiding narrow roads, low underpasses and weight- and load-type restricted bridges, while discovering trucking points of interest.

The Navman Wireless Drive app suite is hosted on a 6-inch, Garmin-supported MNav-950 in-vehicle display that fully integrates with the Navman Wireless OnlineAVL2 platform. The device’s capacitive touch screen backs Drive’s navigation and capture feature, showcasing the device’s durability and simple mechanics.

“Garmin was a natural fit for our specific needs,” said Nair. “As a global leader in telematics, it was important for us to integrate with the best GPS navigation hardware provider available on the market. Navman Wireless needed a partner that would provide not only a strong platform for our product, today, but would also be able to accommodate the growth we have planned for tomorrow.”