MONITORING


Automotive telematics system with multiple sensors eases asset management for manufacturing and distribution.


Telematics Keep Track on the IoT E


RM Advanced Telematics has been engaged in the supply of telematics systems for vehicle security for a number of years and has now entered the IoT market by introducing new sensing systems designed


to monitor and track assets.


According to Eitan Kirshenboim, CMO and business development manager at ERM, focus has shifted in recent years away from vehicles and more towards assets. “We started with the fleet and telematics in 2001


focusing on the vehicle and driver but now peceptions are shifting towards assets instead of the vehicles. With the growth of IoT initiatives, assets are not only being just tracked but closely monitored,” he explains. ERM found itself in a unique position as most assets are being moved from one place to the other on trucks so the company decided to provide additional value to customers who want to monitor their assets using the trackers that are already on the truck enhanced with additional sensing capabilities. “Our goal is to enable our business partners to expand their reach beyond telematics and fleet management by allowing them to add asset management and monitoring. As part of this strategy, our partners can monitor assets from after the completion of manufacturing, through the phases of storing, transporting to their destination and subsequent installation at the customer’s premises. The aim is to cover the entire supply chain at any point in time throughout the asset’s lifecycle,” explains Kirshenboim.


TRACK AND SENSE The result is the IoTLink line of products, which use sensors and gateways that enable continuous tracking of assets and monitoring of their status according to pre-defined parameters. The products emit constant status signals, as well as alerts of any breach of the pre- defined parameters. IoTLink products enable tracking, locating and


❱ ❱ Telematic monitoring goes beyond vehicle tracking by allowing assets to be monitored throughout their lifecycle


monitoring of assets that are not necessarily in or on the vehicle, such as items that are being transported in crates or are in storage, in containers, in transit or in fields, etc, alongside assets such as activated machines and refrigerators for industry, which use equipment that requires long-distance monitoring. The IoTLink product will enable complete integration and interfacing of the company’s main telematics product line that’s based on StarLink technology.


❱ ❱ Eitan Kirshenboim aims to expand the reach of ERM customers beyond telematics and fleet


management into asset monitoring


COMBINED SENSING IoTLink makes use of the e2Sens comprehensive sensor, which will enable the monitoring of assets in real time. e2Sens provides periodic reporting based on a list of parameters – including humidity, temperature, motion and shock etc. A complimentary product to e2Sens is e2Gate, which serves as a gateway to the e2Sens sensor and can also act independently as a standalone sensor. e2Gate combines a mobile tracking unit with a sophisticated sensor, and is equipped with a cellular modem, GPS and an internal battery all in one device. The IoTLink technology focuses on continuous measurement over monitoring ranges and thresholds determined in advance by the users, and it provides alerts if these thresholds are exceeded. Once a threshold is breached, the sensor will send out an event in order to permit an immediate satisfactory handling of the asset. One of the defining characteristics of the ERM device is its multi-sensing capabilities that can either be used without any configuration requirements or which can be user configured using an associated app, which users can program from their mobile or tablet. All of this comes in one package. “The beauty of the product and the added value it brings is the multi sensing capability of the device, which monitors parameters such as angle, humidity, light, movement, shock, accident detection, temperature, micro-switch magnet and light, all in the same small device,” says Kirshenboim.


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