3 Ways It Pays Off To Invest In Telematics

By Paul Miles, Trimble PULSE

3 Ways it Pays Off to Invest in Telematics for Equipment Dealers

For decades, software management tools have been helping us manage everything from our time to our money, and even our fitness. Integrating technology into our lives to solve problems and make processes easier is something we just do now. We see a problem in our life or in our business and our first instinct is to research a solution to which we can confidently outsource that challenge.

Initially, asset-tracking technology had a slow-burn into industries like agriculture and construction. But with the advent of standardized telematics protocols in 2013—expanded in 2016 to include mixed-fleet implementation—the integration of telematics solutions began to take off.  

Since then, the integration of telematics in the field service industry has exploded. Driving this adoption is the need for reliable asset tracking, driver log functionality, and visibility into equipment usage. Cutting through the business processes that a telematics solution helps facilitate, the real value that comes from the technology is its impact on an equipment dealership’s bottom line.