Driver Behavior is an important safety and cost saving measure. Driver behavior alerts and reports help with Safety and Compliance, and enable you to get the most from your staff and assets.

By using Accelerometer, GPS and smart algorithms, we can produce alerts and reports on driver's behavior such as idling or parked time while inside work hours.

Idle Flag on Device

The Dart3 has the ability to set a digital input when idling is detected on the device. Then the server can simply look for when this input is active to log idle time - great for 3rd party platforms.. 

System Parameters 

To enable idle monitoring, we assign a Digital Input in the dropdown. This input becomes active when the Idle Time Threshold and Idle Speed Threshold conditions are met. 

E.g. for 300 and 5 as above, if:

1. The device is in trip (i.e. ignition on)
2. The speed is below 5km/h 

for over 5 min (300 sec) - The configured digital input will be set active '1'. 

Heavy Equipment Idling

Sometimes we wish to detect idling on heavy equipment such as excavators - so we know if the ignition has been left running inadvertently. The trouble is, often such equipment will be at work, in use in a stationary position. So the above idle set up will flag idling all day, while the asset is being used!

If accelerometer activity is detected - the idle input will not be set. 

Idling in Telematics Guru