Navman Wireless Wins Telematics Award for Online AVL2, GPS-Based Tracking & Management System for Vehicle Fleets

GLENVIEW, Ill., June 10 -- Navman Wireless North America announced today that its Online AVL2 real-time fleet tracking and management system has won a prestigious 2009 Telematics Update award for Best Telematics Service & Application for Commercial Vehicles. Online AVL2 earned second-place honors in the highly contested category, beating out nine other finalists from around the globe including Garmin, Qualcomm, NetworkFleet, Sagequest and TomTom.

Navman's OnlineAVL2 is a GPS-based system that helps reduce fuel usage and optimize fleet operations by reducing operating costs, improving fleet productivity and enhancing customer service. It includes the market's most comprehensive real-time and historical vehicle/driver activity reporting as well as the first and only commercial-grade integrated dispatch/messaging/GPS device for in-vehicle use. Customer adoption has surged from 5,000 fleets with 70,000 vehicles to 7,000 fleets with 100,000 vehicles in the last year.

The awards were announced June 3 at the 9th annual Telematics Detroit 2009 Conference & Exhibition, the largest telematics conference in the world. Entries were judged by a panel of independent consultants and industry experts. The winner in Navman's category was a fuel-saving system installed on select Daimler Trucks.

"The value of Online AVL2 in helping control fleet costs and increase fuel economy is indisputable. It is why we are rapidly gaining market share," said T.J. Chung, CEO of Navman Wireless Holdings. "This award reflects the ability of our fleet management solutions to deliver that concrete return on investment and truly make a difference in the bottom line."

Online AVL2 includes desktop-based real-time vehicle tracking and reporting software used by dispatchers and fleet managers, a companion Qube vehicle-mounted satellite tracking device, and the customer's choice of Mobile Data Terminal (dispatch and messaging) or M-Nav (dispatch, messaging and GPS) units for in-vehicle use.

The system tracks all vehicles in the fleet in real time as well as measuring, collating and analyzing asset and fleet usage, making it possible to zero in on problems such as excessive idle times, underused vehicles and non-compliant driver behavior that can drive up costs. Advanced features include wide area mapping down to the street level, the ability to identify individual drivers, polygonal geofence functionality for defining driver territories, robust two-way messaging options, and a full reporting suite providing actionable information for fleet optimization.

These and other features can yield significant savings for fleet operations. One school transportation provider with 35 vehicles, for example, is saving $249,000 annually because of payroll reductions achieved by preventing drivers from inflating their time reports, and fuel reductions achieved by placing geofences around each driver's home to curb personal vehicle use.