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KEEPING TABS ON SUSTAINABILITY
Deepak Kadambi, General Manager APAC for Geotab, recently visited Australia to speak at the Sustainability Leaders Summit. MHD caught up with Deepak to learn about Geotab’s sustainability and social responsibility approach.
Geotab has doubled down on its commitments to environmental sustainability and social responsibility.
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eotab, a global leader in IoT and connected transportation, helps its customers improve productivity, optimise fleets through the reduction of fuel consumption, enhance driver safety, achieve strong regulatory compliance to regulatory changes, and focus on sustainability. Geotab is one of the few companies with the ability to help organisations reduce their environmental footprint by leveraging green technology and helping companies transition their fleets from internal combustion engine (ICE) fleets to electric vehicle (EV) fleets. Established in 2000, Geotab is now one of the largest telematics companies in the world and is a leader in providing fleet management and vehicle monitoring solutions. In 2020, it was the first to exceed two million connected vehicles on a single, open platform. With a driving aim to connect vehicles to the cloud and make roads safer for everyone, Geotab’s open platform and Marketplace guide businesses in automating their operations by integrating vehicle data with other data assets. This helps to improve productivity and driver safety, helps ensure regulatory compliance, and reduces fuel consumption. Geotab has worked for over twenty years
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We are intensely focused on research and innovation. Because we’ve mostly sold through distributors and resellers, that has allowed us to expand as well as focus on customers’ pain points and build our products to be more potent.
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with its partners to develop an ecosystem and to provide an extensive product portfolio that can help businesses achieve their goals, no matter the size or function of their fleet. “Over the last four to five years, Geotab has seen customer growth and a significant expansion of its product portfolio,” Geotab General Manager APAC, Deepak Kadambi says. “More than 130 countries and seven continents have Geotab connected vehicles, including Antarctica. Geotab leverages its ecosystem to sell its hardware, enabling it to allocate more resources to research and innovation. This focus on innovation allows Geotab to develop and deliver the highest quality product.” Geotab’s GO device is agnostic to the size of the vehicle, size of the fleet, the industry it serves and the type of vehicle. While Geotab’s primary business model began centred on hardware, it has become more about the services and solutions it delivers to its customers.
CLEAN COMMITMENT Deepak has over 20 years of strategy, operations and engineering experience in transportation, technology and telecommunications. Following his role MHD APRIL 2022 | 41
