DPL AMERICA LAUNCHES THE TITAN EQUIPMENT MONITORING SYSTEM FOR OFF ROAD ASSETS
Innovative asset management system delivers industry’s first flat rate, automatic updating telemetry solution for construction equipment
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, December 13, 2006 - DPL America, a leading designer and supplier of advanced wireless and GPS products for the construction industry, announced today the release of the Titan Equipment Monitoring System for mobile, off-road equipment. The Titan is an advanced solution for remote monitoring and tracking of off-road assets to increase asset profitability and productivity while decreasing the costs and risk of equipment theft. Features include: automatic and on-demand location updates, remote starter disable capabilities, real time updates of machine on/off/in transit status, hour meter reporting with daily run time log, service scheduling with past due notices and digital inputs for sensor alarming.
The Titan Equipment Monitoring System allows managers to track their assets continuously and accurately from a robust, Internet based software package. Once covertly installed on an asset, the rugged Titan hardware unit wirelessly reports the machine’s activity, location, status and other operational data to the software. The system communicates over the GPRS network, North America’s largest pure digital data network. The resulting combination is a tool for intelligent, real time fleet management decisions delivering utilization increases, reduced operational costs and theft protection.
By offering a flat rate monitoring plan, the Titan becomes the construction industry’s first telemetry system to break from the traditional mobile phone billing model. The standard phone model offers set plans with an allotted number of communications (similar to minutes on a cell phone), overage charges for excess communications, an activation fee and annual or multi-year service contracts. DPL America has introduced a new structure that includes all data on a flat rate with no overage charges, no activation fee and a month-to-month service agreement.
Another industry first is DPL America’s introduction of automatic location and status updates based on the asset’s routine operational events, as they occur throughout the day. By updating this information every time the machine is turned on, off and goes in transit, the Titan gives an equipment owner automatic, up to the minute visibility into his or her fleet.
“Customers and prospects have been asking for a better way to budget for, manage and justify their monthly messaging costs,” said Tony Nicoletti, National Sales Manager at DPL America. “Everyone who has a mobile phone has opened up their bill at least once and been floored by the overage charges, so we understood where they were coming from. We threw out the old billing model and designed a flat rate program so Titan users can pay the same rate every month, without the overage surprises”.
“Furthermore, customers wanted real time updates and information for real time decision making. As their time becomes more limited, they do not want to spend it requesting updates and waiting for responses from the system or using day old data to make decisions. With the Titan, they have true real time decision making power,” added Nicoletti.
The Titan is managed from the same Internet software as DPL America’s Skyhawk Vehicle Tracking System, thus giving managers an integrated solution for real time, side-by-side mapping and management of both on-road and off-road assets.
About DPL America
DPL America is a leading developer and supplier of advanced wireless, GPS and telemetry solutions for the construction industry. These solutions, manufactured in an ISO 9001:2000 certified facility, are marketed throughout North America from the company’s headquarters located in San Francisco, California. Additional information is available at www.dplamerica.com.