Qualcomm Inc., a provider of business-to-business wireless enterprise applications and services, made several announcements this week at the Truckload Carriers Association’s Annual Convention in Las Vegas, Nev.

Analytics Manager added to Transportation Services suite: Qualcomm added the Analytics Manager service to the Qualcomm Transportation Services suite, which will offer fleets a holistic view of driving performance to help carriers run their businesses more efficiently and safely. The Analytics Manager will provide a critical-event reporting dashboard, driver safety reports and scorecards, as well as key industry benchmarking. The service is expected to be available on multiple Qualcomm platforms this fall.

“All sizes of fleets can benefit from the Analytics Manager service, but especially smaller fleets that typically cannot afford to build their own,” says Norm Ellis, vice president of sales, services and marketing for Qualcomm Enterprise Services. “By pulling the customer’s data together from their use of Qualcomm’s existing products and services, we are able to provide the fleet manager with an in-depth analysis for making immediate improvements to the fleet.”

Analytics Manager presents actionable data via intuitive user interfaces that make the information easy to understand, navigate and interpret. The service enables easier identification of areas of improvement for fleets, as customers easily can set parameters for driver performance monitoring and view data at the group or functional level.

Reports planned for the Analytics Manager service include:
• Critical Events Dashboard – outlines fleetwide safety trends captured with the Critical Event Reporting service;
• Driver Scorecard – incorporates data from Hours of Service, Critical Event Reporting and Performance Monitoring services to assist with CSA 2010 compliance; and
• Industry Benchmarks – pulls data from multiple services and shows how a carrier’s fleet measures against averages for key performance indicators such as fuel consumption, idle time, overspeeding and hard braking.

Maptuit’s NaviGo Fuel, Hazmat added to MCP Series: Qualcomm announced Maptuit’s NaviGo Fuel and NaviGo Hazmat add-ons to its NaviGo In-Cab Navigation service on the Mobile Computing Platform Series. The two NaviGo add-ons offer additional functionality to help fleets control costs and improve routing.

NaviGo Fuel provides information on fuel stations and their associated fuel prices within a customer-configurable radius or corridor along the truck’s route. Search results are returned based on the fuel stops’ proximity to the vehicle’s current location. In addition to selecting which fuel data feed they would like to use, customers also have the option of leveraging their own custom fuel network, which helps improve efficiency in managing fuel plans and fuel costs.