Severn Trent Water in the UK chooses Ctrack for advanced vehicle tracking

Issued by Ctrack
Johannesburg, 31 May 2013

Severn Trent Water has awarded a three-year contract extension to Ctrack for the provision of an advanced vehicle tracking solution for its commercial vehicle fleet. Under the agreement, the company has upgraded its existing tracking system to Ctrack Online with Driver IDs across approximately 1 700 commercial vehicles with the aim of enhancing health and safety, boosting performance and reducing operating costs.

Ctrack Online will be accessible to around 300 users at various offices across the Midlands. The Web-based tracking tool, which was developed in South Africa, will be operated alongside an existing scheduling system to support the efficient planning of jobs and to optimise processes. By accessing real-time data, Severn Trent Water will have greater visibility of all vehicles, enabling it to better co-ordinate the fleet's operations and to achieve high levels of customer service.

Meanwhile, Driver ID will enable Severn Trent Water to gain greater insight into the status and whereabouts of its field workers, especially employees who share multiple vehicles. This will positively contribute to the company's constant focus on health and safety. The vehicles are fitted with a Driver ID reader and each field worker is assigned a unique key that is scanned before starting a journey.

David Cross, Project Manager at Severn Trent Water, commented: "The functionality and usability of the Ctrack Online system means it will meet our current and future needs to help drive productivity, completion of work and enable further health and safety benefits. As customer satisfaction and job resolution is at the forefront of everything we do, the new vehicle tracking platform will contribute towards this.

"Moving forward, we will also be able to enhance the tracking solution by taking advantage of Ctrack's range of innovative tools to support changing business and operational requirements."

John Wisdom, Managing Director of Ctrack, said: "We are the partner of choice within the utility sector because of our ability to deliver advanced tracking solutions that meet the precise needs of service management operations. This latest contract recognises the value we can provide by taking advantage of our market-leading technology and unrivalled support."

Ctrack

Ctrack is part of JSE-listed DigiCore and specialises in vehicle tracking, fleet management and insurance telematics for a global client base. With more than 25 years' experience, Ctrack is recognised as a world-leading provider of advanced machine-to-machine communication and telematics solutions that add value to this global base of customers with mobile assets.

Ctrack's end-to-end research, design, development, manufacturing, sales and support of customised solutions for customers is serviced by a global network of staff and team members in more than 50 countries. The company's technology and electronic division designs and develops a robust range of asset management and monitoring systems using GPS satellite positioning, GSM cellular communication systems, and other advanced communication and sensory technologies. The result is innovative and advanced machine-to-machine communication that provides Ctrack customers with 24x7x365 information and monitoring of their mobile assets that help them to achieve operational efficiencies and cost-reduction targets.

Operations span six continents, with over 1 000 employees and more than seven million systems sold.

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