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Live GPS tracking and detailed trip reports allow fleets to update their customers with accurate delivery times while also identifying inefficient routes.

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For increased fleet security, there are useful tools such as ‘movement without ignition’ alerts while geo-fencing ensures operators will be notified if a vehicle leaves a designated area. Automated email notifications provide full visibility of the Active Safety System with Pre-Collision System alerts to provide another level of fleet safety.

Hino-Connect monitors data from the PCS, the pre-crash emergency alert, and looks at its activation. When it reaches the last resort emergency activation, that event will be flagged back at base on the operator’s portal into Hino-Connect, as part of the driver’s score card.

Hino-Connect also proactively monitors maintenance reminders so customers can schedule ahead and minimise downtime.

Depending on the way the system rolls out in the Hino 700, Hino will examine the feasibility of making the system standard in the smaller 500 and 300 Series models. The new unit represents a step-change in the technology available.

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“This time around we were able to work very closely with the Japanese engineers,” says Gus. “Previously, there had been a bit of back engineering and trying to read the signals on the truck, but this time we were able to get direct access and know how to read the data out of the vehicle.

a call to action, to contact our roadside assistance team.” customer’s existing business systems.”

The messages will only be used if the fault is one which will lead to the system derating the truck.

The operator can set up geo-fencing via the portal to get an alert when a vehicle enters or leaves a particular location. There is also an asset trail available where the operator can see where all of their assets went on the previous day. This can aid them in future route planning and load allocation, avoiding replication of locations.

There are two parts to the hardware in the truck. There is the multimedia unit which has been fitted in Hinos in recent years. Then there is the Hino-Connect unit pulling down the data and interpreting it for the driver and the operator. The whole system has been developed for Hino in Australia, giving the company flexibility and the ability to customise as and when needed.

This hardware has the capacity to handle later iterations of the system and will be able to adapt over time to new requirements from truck buyers. HinoConnect can be updated over-the-air as time goes on, enabling updates and improvements to develop over the life of the vehicle.

The release of the Hino-Connect system is an illustration of the continuing convergence of systems from the point of view of the truck manufacturers towards those historically offered by third party manufacturers and retrofitted into vehicles. Both have been isolated stand-alone systems, and completely self sufficient and pulling data down from cameras, sensors and the CANbus on the truck.

“One of the really big features is the ability to read the fault codes, how to get fuel consumption data, we get all of the information directly out of the ECU. It also means we can send messages to the driver. in the past there was just a fault on the dash, but now the telematics will look at what the fault is, determine whether its severe, and if it is, a message will pop up to tell the driver the fault is severe and give them

There is an analytics section of the operator’s portal which Hino is working on opening up further, when it gets feedback from the market, about what information operators need to have on display following this first release.

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There will also be developments in the way the data can be fed back to the operator and integrated with their existing management systems.

“We do offer an API (application programming interface) feed out of HinoConnect,” says Gus. “It does need some customisation to integrate the data with the

Now the new systems being built are becoming more able to communicate with other systems. This means there is no need for two or three sets of computing power to be in a truck, one from the manufacturer, one from a third party. Now we can look forward to a time when any component, whether in be an onboard mass monitor, the EBS, or a camera watching the driver, will all be able to communicate via one core unit.

The new Hino 700 Series rewrites the rules in safety, emissions and connectivity. It’s our safest truck ever, with an enhanced Hino SmartSafe package including Pre-Collision System, Pedestrian Detection, Lane Departure Warning System and Driver Monitor. Designed to meet Euro 6 exhaust emission standards, it’s the cleanest Hino heavy-duty yet. With Hino-Connect as standard, customers benefit from superior business intel and support – it’s next-generation telematics delivered in real-time. The all-new 700 Series is the truck of the future, here today. Find out more at work with a licence.

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