Distribution and Broadcast Industry

Arshin’s solutions for distribution, supply and broadcast fleet management caused many successful cooperation projects with actors of this industry. Our suggested package for such companies consists of tracking devices, fleet management portal, and sensors set customized based on each customer’s needs as an appropriate answer to all the companies’ necessities.

Real-time location tracking and authentication

Distribution fleet managers are usually facing with the monitoring challenge of both cars and drivers. The initial application of Arshin’s fleet management system (FMS) is the online awareness of the location of cars and their drivers. Therefore, cases like personal use or delay in delivery to the destinations would be diminished. If a car is in common use of many drivers, the system enables the fleet manager to conditionalize the car’s start to presenting the ID card or fingerprint so that all the records of each driver’s performance store separately.

Online condition monitoring of sensitive cargo

In the distribution industry, transportation of some goods such as medicine or foodstuffs requires specific conditions in temperature and humidity. Trusting the driver’s judgement about the performance of cooling and air conditioning systems would always contain the risk of cargo corruption or spoilage. The solution of Arshin FMS for this issue is to utilize appropriate sensors, like temperature and humidity, in the transportation container and link them to the online FMS portal. Consequently, both the driver, the fleet manager, and in necessary cases the customer will be able to observe and monitor the cargo’s status and conditions lively.

Geofencing and zone management

Management of the assigned coverage areas is another one of the biggest challenges for the distribution industry fleet managers. Drivers’ awareness of the zones assigned to them and also, notifying them provided that they go out of their area are possible by using this system. In addition to such Geofencing ability on the online map, the Arshin’s fleet management system provides the abilities of mission assignment and management, forms and workflows digitally management, integrated reporting, and the fleet performance assessment for their managers. Such services trigger the enhancement of quality and accuracy of the entered information in addition to quickness and optimization of the business processes.

Performance optimization and evaluation

With the price increasement of the vehicles’ fuel and spare parts, fleet management costs are becoming more and more serious challenge for the distribution companies every day. Arshin’s FMS has created a special solution in this case as well. Using this system, not only the optimized routing towards the distribution destinations is presented to the drivers, but also with Dispatching and Artificial Intelligence (AI) abilities, the mission assignments are suggested based on the cost minimization method. By keeping the records of maintenance and routine services and setting the reminders of the suitable service period, the fleet depreciation costs are reduced. Moreover, the evaluation of repairmen and consumable parts suppliers would be possible based on the records of durability and price of the used products. Similarly, the fuel consumption monitoring issue is solvable with the suggested system. With the recording of the entered fuel data and also the car’s performance on fuel consumption, the probability of fuel theft would be diminished and potential technical issues of the car would be revealed.

Driver’s behavior analysis

Costly items in fleet management are not limited to only performance and physical conditions of the car, indeed drivers’ behavior and driving culture may cost massive expenses for the businesses. Fines, delays, accident compensations, insurance yearly fees, etc. are some of the other tangible costly consequences of drivers’ harmful behavior for the distribution companies. Regarding concealed costs, some examples such as injuring the cargo or damaging the organization brand can be mentioned. Arshin’s smart fleet management system utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining tools integrates entered data from car movement (such as sudden acceleration, sudden brake, spiral movement, etc.) and sensors evaluating driver’s conditions (Smoking, drowsiness, vital signs, etc.) to present the driver’s overall behavior analysis. This analysis report may be useful for organizations in driver’s performance evaluation and assigning the appropriate punishment and reward in order to improve their driving culture and cost-taking habits.

To be developed capabilities

Arshin’s research and development (R&D) department constantly works on new projects to develop and offer improved solutions to the active businesses in distribution and broadcast industry. Considering the essence of this industry, most of our suggested solutions are designed to improve the fleet’s performance, facilitate the managerial processes, and diminish the fleet management costs. At the moment, we are able to adjust software and hardware based on the necessities and preferred customization of organizations. Some projects will be implemented commercialized in the near future, such as the addition of cargo oxygen metering capability using in transportation of living organisms like ornamental fishes. Also, we try to reduce the weighting costs of businesses by adding the ability of cargo weighting without any need to weighbridge. And finally, developing AI system more and more, we try to present deeper and more precise analysis of driver’s behavior and to predict the potential issues caused by the performance of car and driver.