GeoSpace Labs launches new AI Dashcam

Know-how information and briefs for the week of Jan. 22, 2022: 

New AI dashcam hits market

GeoSpace Labs has launched a brand new AI dashcam with superior laptop imaginative and prescient algorithms that immediately detect unsafe driving and alert drivers in actual time.

GeoSpace’s occasion intelligence expertise analyzes each video inside seconds to find out the context and severity to assist fleets forestall accidents and cut back threat. The corporate says it might assist cut back accidents by as much as 30%.

Key options of the dashcam, which is geared toward smaller fleets and unbiased operators, embody industrial-grade reliability, clear HD video decision and a large area of view for extra protection; as much as 104 hours of digicam storage; and a built-in Fast Seize function button to immediately provoke an automated video add to security departments.

Microsoft Related Fleets provides Wejo to ecosystem

Wejo Group Restricted (NASDAQ: WEJO), a supplier of cloud and software program options for linked, electrical and autonomous car knowledge, has adopted the Microsoft Related Fleets reference structure.

Microsoft Related Fleets reference structure permits an ecosystem of companions that tackle the fleet administration market by simplifying specialised analytics and worth extraction from car knowledge and streamlining integration with enterprise programs.

The reference structure enhances and can streamline entry to Wejo’s linked car knowledge (CVD). Wejo’s CVD is delivered in close to real-time, immediately from its OEM companions. ISVs, SIs, and fleet managers will profit by accessing Wejo’s CVD extra effectively, facilitating quicker integrations with customer-specific necessities, enabling integration of fleet administration capabilities with enterprise functions for area providers, simplifying the supply of superior analytics, accelerating time-to-insights and delivering fleet administration capabilities with no need to retrofit {hardware}.

NMFC Ebook goes 100% digital

The Nationwide Motor Freight Site visitors Affiliation’s Nationwide Motor Freight Classification (NMFC) Ebook will likely be obtainable in print type for the ultimate time in 2023.

Going ahead, the knowledge contained within the e book will likely be obtainable solely from ClassIT: the web model initially launched in 2006.

The choice to supply classification info solely in digital type is a part of NMFTA’s digitizing and sustainability initiatives.

“Over the past a number of years, members have been making the shift to on-line classification, as at present we host over 7,000 customers of ClassIT versus slightly below 700 printed books which are distributed all year long,” stated NMFTA Govt Director Debbie Sparks. “ClassIT has extra performance than the e book, and as a corporation, certainly one of our strategic endeavors is to assist digitize the trade, and this may be one other manner we’ll accomplish that.”

Customers will benefit from sturdy search capabilities, together with the power to entry historic classification recordsdata and seek for a number of phrases and definitions, in addition to trademarked names. ClassIT additionally affords quite a few calculators not discovered within the e book that help in figuring out not solely density, but additionally the relevant provisions the place mandatory.

Present subscribers of the e book will obtain promotional pricing by means of Dec. 31, 2023.

Trucker Path launches new in-app market

Trucker Path has rolled out its new in-app market, that includes reductions and particular affords on services and products particularly for drivers. The choices within the market can be found and simply accessible by all members of the Trucker Path neighborhood.

 “The brand new Trucker Path market was developed to supply quick access to reductions from main suppliers who provide merchandise that not solely assist truckers go about their enterprise extra effectively, but additionally assist them with life’s necessities and comforts,” stated Trucker Path Chief Advertising Officer Chris Oliver.

For the preliminary launch, the Trucker Path market incorporates a set of choices from trusted companions to coincide with this time of yr, together with healthcare and tax-related providers. That record consists of telehealth providers (with the primary two months free); low cost prescription playing cards; main medical insurance coverage; dental and imaginative and prescient protection; life insurance coverage; accident medical protection; accounting providers; and tax preparation.

Further providers and merchandise will proceed to be added to the Trucker Path market sooner or later.

Xos affords cell fleet administration utility

Xos, Inc., a expertise firm that gives fleet providers and software program options and manufactures Class 5 by means of Class 8 battery-electric industrial autos, has launched its cell fleet administration utility.

Xosphere Go. Is for purchasers and approved Xos sellers to handle their Xos car and chargers on the go. It’s obtainable to all homeowners of Xos battery-electric autos and is free to obtain on iOS and Android gadgets.

Xosphere is Xos’s proprietary fleet administration software program purpose-built to reduce the overall price of possession of electrical fleets. It combines Xos’s proprietary {hardware} and software program right into a seamless, intuitive platform. With Xosphere, fleet managers are in a position to monitor the real-time well being and efficiency of their fleet, measure and decrease their fleet’s complete vitality price, and entry service and assist immediately within the platform.

All homeowners of Xos autos and chargers obtain complimentary entry to Xosphere and may leverage fundamental functionalities resembling making service requests, receiving service updates, accessing the data middle and receiving on-line assist. A paid subscription of Xosphere consists of all the advantages from the complimentary model as properly extra advantages, resembling entry to full-service historical past, telematics like GPS and state-of-charge alerts, car and charger efficiency reviews, and entry to the Xosphere Go cell utility.

Schneider expands use of Relay Funds

Transportation supplier Schneider is increasing the usage of Relay Funds to its whole fleet, consisting of 10,000-plus energy items and 12,000-plus drivers following a pilot program by which it examined the fintech firm’s lumper cost resolution.

“With Relay, our drivers have been in a position to enhance productiveness and knowledge accuracy for lumper transactions. We’re all the time thinking about new expertise that reinforces effectivity and improves our drivers’ workflow,” stated Lee Whipp, Schneider senior director of buying. “Relay has decreased friction for each our drivers and back-office groups, and we have discovered the software program is straightforward to make use of.”

Schneider’s operations and customer support groups additionally realized positive factors from utilizing Relay. Drivers started paying warehouse charges immediately from their cab, decreasing time on the telephone to authorize fleet checks or money funds. The digital, contactless cost course of saved drivers important time with every supply. Moreover, Schneider’s finance group obtained instantaneous e-receipts, permitting them to ensure reimbursement and enhance buyer billing.

Co-founders of Relay, launched in 2019 to modernize funds for the provision chain, logistics and trucking industries, noticed how drivers spent hours at warehouses ready on approvals for money or fleet test authorizations to pay lumpers and launched this fully digital, safe and contactless cost course of to unravel for this.

Right this moment, 300,000-plus carriers and drivers use Relay to transact.