Boost driver safety and retention
The new generation of technology-laden commercial vehicles present OEMs with an opportunity to provide advanced fleet management and telematics capabilities that can address the urgent need for improved driver safety and working conditions.
Enhance driver safety and convenience with Sonatus Automator
Sonatus Automator allows OEMs to create custom features using automation policies to execute a wide range of vehicle functions, including for setting driver safety and convenience. These features, requiring no software development, can be deployed instantly across fleets and seamlessly integrated into existing fleet management systems.
Ensure ADAS features are always-on
Modern commercial vehicles are equipped with an array of ADAS and safety features, but these are only effective if consistently utilized. Drivers often, knowingly or unknowingly, disable alerts for lane departure, blind spot monitoring, forward collision, and other such ADAS features.
Offer an Automator policy that automates the task of making sure vehicle ADAS features are always on and set to the prescribed settings.
How it works
- Fleet manager selects the ADAS features that must be active at all times
- At ignition-on, Automator policy runs a scan of the vehicle’s ADAS settings
- If any selected feature is deactivated, Automator turns it back on
Allow fleet-specific safe driving restrictions
Fleets operate in diverse road, traffic, and weather conditions, often comprising vehicles with varying levels of health and maintenance. What constitutes safe driving, therefore, will vary from fleet to fleet or even within a single fleet.
Provide an Automator policy that lets fleet operators define and implement their own safe driving standards.
How it works
- Fleet manager selects the driving conditions
- Weather
- Traffic
- Vehicle health
- Set action
- In-cabin alert
- Trigger speed limiter
- Send alert to fleet manager dashboard
- Record instance on fleet management system
Elevate driver experience and productivity
Commercial vehicle drivers in fleet operations are often assigned different vehicles for each shift. Repeatedly adjusting cabin and comfort settings can be frustrating and, at worst, may impair driving if the driver skips these adjustments. Proper seat positioning, mirror adjustments, IVI/navigation screen orientation, and climate control settings significantly impact a driver’s comfort and, consequently, their performance on the road.
Add an Automator policy to automatically apply each individual driver’s vehicle-specific preferred settings whenever they operate a vehicle.
- Record individual driver’s personalized settings for each vehicle with Sonatus Collector
- Store settings in a driver profile database
- Automator policy includes a link to profile database
- Policy is activated when the fleet scheduling system assigns a driver to a vehicle
- Individualize in-cabin settings are automatically applied driver starts a vehicle
Commercial driving hazards on the rise
- ~ 6,000 fatalities/year in US (Source: NHTSA)
- 75% increase since 2009.
Driver shortage
- 745,000 in Europe by 2028 (Source: IRU)
- 160,000 In US by 2030 (Source: ATA)
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