Technology

New Smart Sensor Tracking from SkyBitz

Nov. 1, 2006

SkyBitz has introduced the new Smart Sensor Tracking system, a solution initially designed for tanker fleet Quality Distribution Inc., that now provides fleets with essential trailer and load arrival and departure information

Wendy Leavitt

GRAPEVINE, TX. SkyBitz has introduced the new Smart Sensor Tracking system, a solution initially designed for tanker fleet Quality Distribution Inc., that now provides fleets with essential trailer and load arrival and departure information. The system was displayed here at the 2006 American Trucking Assns. Management Conference and Exhibition in Dallas, TX.

The new system uses SkyBitz’s motion-based Smart Sensor to enable fleet managers to see the date- and time-stamped location of a trailer from departure to arrival with the ability to automatically filter out non-essential starts and stops as defined by the company. “For instance, you can tell the system, ‘Don’t report unless you have been rolling thirty minutes,’” explained Roni Taylor, executive vp of SkyBitz. “The big value to customers is that they don’t have to pay for reports on trailers that aren’t moving.”

The sensor is installed right in the SkyBitz GLS (Global Locating System) box and, according to Taylor, 97% of new customers are taking advantage of the Smart Sensor Tracking capability. To date, the company has a total GLS installed base of 100,000 trailers in some 290 fleets.

For more information, go to www.skybitz.com

About the Author

Wendy Leavitt

Wendy Leavitt joined Fleet Owner in 1998 after serving as editor-in-chief of Trucking Technology magazine for four years.

She began her career in the trucking industry at Kenworth Truck Company in Kirkland, WA where she spent 16 years—the first five years as safety and compliance manager in the engineering department and more than a decade as the company’s manager of advertising and public relations. She has also worked as a book editor, guided authors through the self-publishing process and operated her own marketing and public relations business.

Wendy has a Masters Degree in English and Art History from Western Washington University, where, as a graduate student, she also taught writing.