Fleet telematics provider Azuga has updated its platform to make fleet vehicle data more accessible to customers and fleet management company partners, the company announced.
Leveraging an integration through a third-party partnership, Azuga customers can now share vehicle data such as VIN, odometer reading, distance driven, hours driven, and diagnostic trouble codes to their fleet management partners. More than 5,500 commercial fleets use Azuga’s platform and, through Azuga’s third-party partnership, can partner with leading fleet management companies.
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Azuga, a Bridgestone company, said its customers want diagnostic trouble codes, preventive maintenance alerts, and odometer information transmitted to their management networks—specifically to their maintenance teams and internal technology platforms. The data helps fleet service teams recommend where a vehicle gets repaired, how quickly, and what service work is needed. Additionally, the odometer information allows fleets to generate targeted vehicle replacement models and helps in the presale/sale forecasting of the used vehicle.
Azuga fleet customer Area Wide Protective, which provides traffic control services in 27 U.S states and four Canadian provinces, welcomes platform upgrades. “A key part of our process is ensuring that our service vehicles are in good condition and operating as they should,” said Bob Adamsky, Area Wide’s fleet manager. “Azuga helps by monitoring the health and performance of our vehicles and streamlining the delivery of this data to ARI, our fleet management company. By automating and simplifying this process, we are in a better position to achieve our goal of making roads safer.”
Before implementing the third-party vendor integration, Azuga customers who wanted to share data with their fleet management partners could do so, but the process was manual. The new integration announced in February automates the process, removing the human bottleneck and giving fleet service teams faster access to the information they need to make smart business decisions.
“Our customers are always looking for ways to integrate data from real-time solutions like Azuga into other platforms, so they can better manage their fleets,” said Ananth Rani, Azuga's CEO. “The vehicle data we’re capturing can be sent to a customers’ internal technology platforms, workforce management partners, or any software partners that touch their vehicles. This product update makes it possible for our customers to access and transmit any vehicle operational data as soon as possible, so their FMC partners can act on it. Unified reporting through enhanced vehicle data will help our customers operate their fleets more efficiently and safely.”
