Note: this feature is available as an add-on for all plans
Pulsus Vehicular Telemetry: Turn Your Smartphones into Advanced Telemetry Devices
Pulsus Vehicular Telemetry is an innovative solution that transforms the smartphones in your fleet into advanced telemetry devices, eliminating the need for additional hardware. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the feature, its benefits, how it works, and answers frequently asked questions.
What it is and How it Works
The Telemetry solution enables intelligent monitoring of vehicles and driver behavior using only a smartphone with the Pulsus app.
Precise Data Collection: The application collects location and position data from the smartphone's sensors every second, whenever a trip begins.
Autonomous Background Operation: The system automatically detects the start of a drive and begins collecting trip data in the background, without requiring any driver interaction. This reduces the risk of distractions and ensures continuous information collection.
Independent of Network Access: If the device loses its internet connection, trip data is stored in cache and synchronized as soon as the network is re-established.
Advantages for Your Operation
Integrating Pulsus Telemetry into your fleet management brings direct benefits to the efficiency, safety, and economy of your operation.
Smarter and More Accurate Management: Make strategic decisions based on concrete data from each trip taken.
Driver Behavior Analysis: Identify driving patterns such as speeding, harsh braking, and excessive fuel consumption, allowing for corrective actions and focused training.
Increased Safety and Economy: Track vehicle information and driving style in real-time, promoting a safer and more economical operation.
Improved Productivity: Use the data to define more efficient routes, reduce distances traveled, and cut unnecessary operational costs.
Creation of New Opportunities: With total control over real-time operational information, your company gains agility to change routes, serve customers more quickly, and adapt to unforeseen events.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and Usage Tips
Here are the answers to some of the most common questions about using Telemetry.
1. Does "Average time between trips" include weekends? How does this affect the calculation? Yes. The calculation considers the complete time interval between the end of one trip and the start of the next. Therefore, the period the vehicle is stopped over the weekend (from the last trip on Friday until the first on Monday) is counted, which will increase the average time in the report.
Usage Tip: For an analysis more focused on the work period, we recommend filtering the report by smaller periods, such as daily or Monday to Friday.
Calculation Detail: The system calculates the average time elapsed since the last trip ended for each new trip started within the filtered period.
2. In the reports, trip durations appear as "0.xxxx hours." What does this mean? This indicates that the trip had a duration of less than one hour. The value represents a fraction of an hour, not minutes.
Example: A value of
0.5hours is equivalent to30minutes. A value of 0.1922 hours corresponds to approximately 11.5 minutes (0.1922 * 60 minutes).
3. The telemetry screens are taking a long time to load (close to 5 minutes). Is this normal? No, this is not the expected behavior. Slowness usually occurs when trying to load data from a large number of devices simultaneously, without applying a filter.
Usage Tip: To optimize performance and loading speed, we recommend always using filters to view a smaller set of devices or a more specific time period.
4. Does telemetry work on Android devices managed via "Device Admin"? Yes. The Telemetry solution is fully compatible and can capture trip data normally on devices configured via Device Admin. So far, no bugs or issues related to this management mode have been identified.
If you have any other questions, do not hesitate to contact our support team.