Atlanta-based Discrete Wireless introduced its second-generation Fleet Management product and service.

In addition to the popular feature of monitoring a fleet vehicle's location, Discrete's system offers upgraded tracking capability to new and existing users that includes an enhanced dispatch console software module using Microsoft MapPoint 2002 software, power take off and idle sensors.
Discrete's new sensor services enable the monitoring of door openings and closings, idle time and refrigeration monitoring – features previously unavailable. Dispatchers can observe when a vehicle arrived at its scheduled stop, and determine if the employee was actually using the equipment on the vehicle, and for how long. This enhancement enables companies to not only monitor the location of their fleet vehicles, but to supervise whether the vehicle was used in the manner it was intended. In addition, company fuel expenses can be reduced through effective monitoring using an idle sensor. The sensor determines excessive idle time when a vehicle is left running at a stop.
Using Microsoft's MapPoint 2002 as a new enhancement, Discrete Wireless offers customers the ability to display locations, vehicles, and zones embedded with the off-the-shelf MapPoint application. MapPoint provides dispatchers with a full screen map with current vehicle locations and customer locations. It automatically provides current street databases and allows dispatchers to quickly determine directions from the vehicle's present location to its destination by pointing and clicking on a map with turn-by-turn directions as well as a highlighted route on the map. The vehicle data is refreshed every 2 minutes as various vehicles continue to report at 5-minute intervals.
Discrete's Internet based solutions enable small to mid-sized service fleets to quickly and easily deploy a fleet management solution.
Discrete uses Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) technology to provide a live vehicle tracking service. A mobile radio collects vehicle operational data and transmits it in regular intervals, or in exception situations. Discrete gives the user the ability to locate a single vehicle, a fleet, and the closest vehicle to a particular address or customer defined location.
For more information, visit www.discretewireless.com.