Vine Telematics

23/10/2024

Haven’t installed the new DVS 2024 kit in your vehicles yet? TfL is offering a grace period until 4 May 2025 for those who need more time to comply with the Progressive Safe System requirements. But you'll need to apply - with proof of booking. We’ll schedule your installation at a convenient time before the new deadline and provide a Booking Confirmation Certificate so you can apply to TfL and take advantage of the extension. Don’t delay—ACT NOW! Email us at [email protected].

17/07/2023

📢 Wow, what a great weekend it was! 💥 It's not often we can get to a fleet at one location at the same time, but this weekend we went on a small mission and pulled off a one-hit job, installing vehicle trackers and Dallas readers for one of our amazing clients in 60 vehicles. 🚀✨

Our client experienced no business interruption, and we made it look easy, but like the graceful swan gliding across the water – seemingly effortless, but beneath the surface, a coordinated symphony of configured trackers, specific LED Dallas readers, relays, fuses, wiring harnesses, and engineers came together seamlessly. 🦢🎶

We're excited to witness the impact of these enhancements on our client's operations and are grateful for the opportunity to play a part in their success. No Dallas ID fob - no driving.

We're not just a live video company, telematics is in our blood, we'd love to hear your thoughts too! Drop a comment below and let us know your thoughts on this epic feat! 🙌💼

05/07/2023

These are the door mirror cameras we’re using to get a really clear and wide view of the loading/unloading of the trailer. They want it to film loading/unloading to ensure staff and visitors are following the safe working practices.

29/06/2023

We sell our live vehicle cctv to businesses only…but we made an exception for one of our favourite logistics company owners Danny Monk of DTM Logistics, when he bought a motorhome and wanted 360 degree cameras.

Usually, we use larger Infrared side cameras for trucks (see the red truck) but used something more aesthetically pleasing for his motorhome, and the result works well.

23/05/2023

More tracker installs this weekend 😀

15/12/2022

01/12/2022

We have a lot of clients in construction, and whilst most vehicles in a construction fleet are vans, there are many construction companies with their own plant equipment.
For normal vehicle fleets, knowing where the vehicles are helps with resource planning, but the same is true for plant equipment, where are they, and are they operating.
Whilst trucks and vans can sometimes operate in difficult environments, it can certainly be true of plant equipment, which is often tasked with work in muddy, dusty areas, in cold and wet weather (in the UK at least), and critically subject to long periods of vibration.
Our IP rated tracking device is ready for shock and high vibration, and comes with a four-year warranty.
This client, operating in the building industry in, and around London, asked us to add a ‘crusher’ and backhoe loader to the platform.
GPS tracking for our client is more of an operational tool, but it here are couple of added benefits highlighted by Anthony Brown, Operations Director, Brocks Haulage Ltd.
”Clients pay us to operate our equipment, so we like to see when it’s running. Knowing we have the right telematics hardware for the job is vital, and the plant equipment reports to the same ROADSTREAM.IO platform we’ve been using for the rest of our fleet for years.”
If you have some ‘less than standard’ vehicles, plant, or equipment that you’d like to monitor, you can book a session with Sharon here https://calendly.com/sharoncostin to find out more.

23/11/2022

Our typical client runs, trucks, vans, and company cars, but every now and then there is a motorbike thrown into the mix. `

Most people want their tracking device to update in the App. even if it hasn’t moved, it gives confidence that all is working well, we call this a ‘heartbeat’, it’s a GPS message that is sent when the vehicle ignition is off.

Vehicle ‘battery conservation’ is key, and (for example) one-hour updates don’t use significant power at all, but parked over time, can have an impact.

A van might have 80Ah, but a motorbike, due to obvious size and weight constraints might only have 5Ah of capacity. So, we use a slightly larger capacity battery on our tracking device to ensure that we don’t rely on a charge from the vehicle to send ‘heartbeat’ messages.

This client, operating in the building trade in London asked us to add their KTM Superduke to the platform, and whilst we don’t think they plan on any green laning or wading, ‘water ingress’ is something we want to protect against on a vehicle that’s so exposed to the elements. In this case, our larger capacity battery GPS tracker is IP68 rated to protect it.

GPS tracking for our client is more of an operational tool, but it here are couple of added benefits highlighted by the Fleet Manager at Stanmore Contractors Ltd:

”We know help is normally at hand for motorbike accidents in urban areas, but ‘crash detection’ gives a small amount of peace of mind”

“We know there’s not a lot we can do to stop motorbike theft, but ‘unplugged notifications’ gives us some warning at least”

If you have some ‘less than standard’ vehicles, plant, or equipment that you’d like to monitor, you can book a session with Sharon here https://calendly.com/sharoncostin to find out more.

31/10/2022

Little dots on the calendar tell you when something happened….

These useful little coloured dots on the calendar in the App. tell you that something happened. If you’re looking in Journey Calendar, you can ignore days with no green dots, because no journeys took place.

If you’re looking for a Video Event, the Video Events Calendar has green dots on days when there are some videos to watch.

Sometimes the small things in a UX (user experience) design can help speed things up, and answer questions faster, we think these small changes make a difference.

If you have a point of frustration, or some idea to make our vehicle tracking and live vehicle cctv platform faster, or easier to use, please let us know.

27/10/2022

A bit like an unread E-mail in your inbox for vehicle CCTV. If you or your colleagues have requested several videos from your vehicles’ CCTV, clicking the ‘unwatched’ filter means you’ll be able to check just the new videos. Some videos are really important, the ones you want to share with your broker, the underwriter, or just with a colleague…click favourite against the important videos, so you can easily find it again later. If you want to find out more about our 4G cameras, you can book a session with me here: https://calendly.com/sharoncostin