BALFOUR BEATTY INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES

Mobile vision brings connectivity and growth

Providing services such as gully cleansing, road gritting and emergency response teams requires an incredible amount of organisation. Responding to emergency situations demands instantaneous knowledge of your fleet's whereabouts at all times, and analogue radio systems are often slow and unreliable. In addition, the incredible paper trail required to fulfill the legal reporting requirements on the contracts is cost and time-prohibitive. Something needed to be done.

To provide the hardware backbone for the solution, APD implemented their INCA™ GPS-enabled vehicle tracking unit. The INCA unit is fitted to the vehicle and, using GPS technology over a GPRS network, transmits information back to the central Co-Ordinator fleet location management system. The system is flexible and can record different information for the various areas of highway maintenance such as response times, completed routes and spread rates for winter maintenance, and vehicle location markers for Incident Support Units – so that the closest vehicle can be quickly despatched to the emergency site.