“(Customers) want to be able to drive business efficiencies and deliver
cost savings while maintaining visibility into how their drivers are using the
company's vehicles; the f6 solution allows them to do just that.”
General Manager of Digicel
Business, Jason Corrigan commenting on their partnership with f6, a Vehicle
Tracking and Fleet Management Company
St. Patrick’s Day for the Irish is a little special for Telecom Provider
Digicel this year, as apparently more Jamaicans seem to be aware as noted in “Go Green For
St Paddy's Day”, Published Sunday March 16, 2014, by Melissa Douse,
Contributor, The Jamaica Gleaner and
“Roots,
Rock, Paddy!”, published Monday, March 17, 2014 The Jamaica Observer.
This as for St. Patrick’s, Digicel has decided to invite yet even more
Irish people to Jamaica. This time it's Dublin, Ireland based Fleet Management
company f6 to enter the crowded Fleet Management and Vehicle
Tracking Businesses in Jamaica as noted in “Digicel
Jamaica To Market Vehicle-Tracking Product”, Published Wednesday March 19,
2014 by Richard Browne, Business Reporter, The
Jamaica Gleaner and “Digicel
Business launches vehicle Management solution”, published Friday, March 14,
2014, The Jamaica Observer.
Effectively this means that Telecom Provider Digicel is now doing the
same thing as KingAlarm,
with whom they’d partnered to provide this service and already doing in its
Pacific Island States with Fleet Management company f6.
And based on the article Protect Your
Ride, published Sunday December 12, 2010, by Laranzo Dacres, The Sunday Gleaner, it’s a very
lucrative business that many small companies would like to get into, as
locating Stolen Motor Vehicles is a priority for any Car Owner and is a service
that many are willing to pay to protect and recover their investment.
Now note this brings the number of Fleet Management and Vehicle Tracking
Businesses to approximately six (6), as listed below:
1.
Guardsman via its
subsidiary ClearChannel now Guardsman Alarms in partnership with Telecom
Provider LIME as noted in “Guardsman launches car
tracking system”, published Wednesday, 28 January 2004 by the Jamaica Observer,
Archived by TechJamaica
5.
Safe
and Secure Tracking and Technologies, a subsidiary of POGAS Fourth World
Investments
For those inclined to watch videos, I found one for HawkTracker that
should bring back some memories!
The advantages of these tracking services are obvious:
1.
ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival Projections
thereby reducing Employee's idling on the Road
2.
Efficient Fleet Management for Large Deliver and
Service Companies
3.
GPS Services for Lost Drivers (inna Jamaica??)
To this end, many companies, even the Jamaican Police as noted in the
article “Tracking
system coming for police vehicles”, published Saturday, March 02, 2013 BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff
reporter, The Jamaica Observer,
are looking to the Fleet Management and Vehicle Tracking to better manage the
use of their vehicles.
Fleet Management and Vehicle
Tracking Services - GPS Data and other
Services as You Like It
These services all work the same way, mind you. A Tracking Module is
installed in your vehicle with its own Battery to power the device yet charged
by the Vehicle. The Tracking Module can track your vehicle movement via its
built in GPS (Global Positioning System).
It will relay the Tracking Data via a Telecom Provider Partner GPRS
(Global Packer Radio Service), EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) or
3G Data Network or a Private Radio Network to a NOC (Network Operation Center)
Controlled by the Security Company.
In some rare cases, the Data can be routed over GSM Voice via a series of
sound pulses or even SMS (Short Messaging Service) messages, which requires
only an Active Postpaid or Prepaid SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) Card.
An example of such a platform is Rottguard, owned by General Manager of Auto-Don
Trading Company Limited Mr. Donahue Martin as stated in “Now
You Can Control Your Car By Cell Phone - Auto-Don Develops Rottguard As
Anti-Theft System”, Published Sunday June 16, 2013, The Jamaica Gleaner .
Rottguard is unique not only because of the fact that the Data is routed
via the GSM Voice or SMS, completely bypassing the need to subscribe to the
Telecom Provider’s Services but also in the fact that the package offers BOTH
Vehicle Tracking and Car Alarm Service in a Device package that priced
competitively at JA$28,000 with no monthly charges.
All these Tracking Modules, however, offer other services, often provided
by the Security Company, mainly involving remotely monitoring and control of
that Vehicle’s Condition and State.
It’s this side of the business that f6 plans to get into via a partnership
with Telecom Provider Digicel to quote f6 Sales Representative, Michelle
O'Connor: “By embracing the f6 service, insurance companies and fleet providers
have the opportunity to create new products and services for their clients
which will enable them to generate a long-term strategic advantage over their
competitors. Road safety organizations will also benefit as the service has the
potential to reduce the number of people killed and injured on the roads
annually”.
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