Are you looking for a suitable fleet management system?

There’s a huge choice! There are many telematics companies offering GPS products. When you look online, you’ll see websites with catchy slogans and sleek images designed to win over potential customers. But do they actually offer what you and your business need?

What requirements must such a system actually meet, and what kind of GPS system is suitable for your business and sector? In short: what should you look out for?
In this blog, you’ll find out everything you need to know about this, we’ll explain what Rental Tracker can do for you, and we’ll help you get started so you can make the right choice!

First of all, it is worth knowing what a GPS tracking system consists of. Put simply, a GPS tracking system consists of:

A GPS product; in this case, track-and-trace products that offer various functions enabling the collection of different types of data, so that people or equipment can be tracked, monitored and secured
A portal; this is the platform where all the data from the GPS products is collected
Connectivity: the link that enables the exchange of important data

GPS products

The choice of track-and-trace products you make depends largely on specifying – which equipment you wish to monitor and what you hope to achieve by doing so.
It might not seem difficult to find a suitable product for your business based on these principles, but we know from experience that this requires a deeper understanding! Both the features of the tracker as the specific characteristics Of the trackers, the latter plays a major role and is often underestimated.

An example: A car dealer wants to protect his vehicles against theft, for example during test drives. It makes sense for the car dealer to choose a track-and-trace product designed to prevent theft. However, in addition to this functionality, the track-and-trace product must also have a number of specific features to ensure it fully meets this customer’s specific wishes and needs. This is because the car dealer experiences a high turnover of vehicles. It is therefore important that he chooses a product suitable for occasional theft monitoring. The tracker must be quick and easy to move from one vehicle to another. Furthermore, it must be easy to conceal and incur no installation costs as it is battery-powered. In addition, the tracker must be very difficult or virtually impossible to detect; otherwise, it will be spotted by car thieves in no time and removed from the vehicle. Only the Stealth Compact Tracker meets all these requirements.
When making the right choice of track & trace products, in addition to the features of the tracker, and therefore also the specific characteristics The trackers play an important role!

On our website, you can find our ‘’advanced decision-making tool’ use. Our decision-making guide offers you one or more suitable solutions. Once you’ve read about the specific features of the trackers in question, you can make the choice that’s right for you. Would you still like us to help you decide? We’d be happy to! We offer free advice with no obligation!

The GPS portal

It is essential that your GPS portal is tailored to your sector. This is because every sector requires its own specific insights. For example, a car hire company needs different insights from the portal than a construction firm.
It is also useful if you can set up your own personalised selection of key data within your portal. After all, every company has different needs and requirements. These settings ensure that you can quickly and easily gain the right insights.
Our portal is tailored to various sectors. You can hide the settings that do not apply to you within our portal with just a few clicks. You will then only see the data (information about your equipment) that is relevant to your business. We also use ready-made notification templates for alerts. These templates are fully tailored to your specific sector, but you can easily add your own personal requirements to them.

An example: A cleaning company has a fleet consisting of 15 work vans. Some employees take the work vans home with them after work.
The operations manager would like to receive alerts when employees exceed the maximum permitted speed or when they use the vehicle for personal purposes during their own time, contrary to the agreement. Thanks to the ‘tailor-made templates’, he receives only those alerts that are relevant to him and on which he may wish to take action. He can also generate a weekly or monthly report so that he has a clear overview of which vehicles may be “stepping out of line”.

Connectivity

Last but not least, everything depends on the connectivity between the GPS products and the portal! You may have the best telematics products and a handy portal, but if the quality of the connectivity leaves something to be desired, there isn’t much you can monitor!
Rental Tracker is connected to the best and largest network providers, who supply our connectivity. This means we have a very high-quality roaming SIM card that ensures our customers are seamlessly connected to a network worldwide (+190 countries). This means we can offer you the best coverage, even in more remote areas!
Just like the police, we can often still determine the location even when there is no longer a GPS signal but the SIM card still has reception. In this way, there is a good chance that stolen equipment can still be traced.
Thanks to our connectivity and our portal, you have immediate insight into all your equipment, anytime, anywhere. Whether you’re using your mobile phone, laptop or PC! In real time, worldwide, any time, anywhere!