OMNIplus ON knows best when it comes to making use of the vehicle data from your new Setra. The digital provider offers a range of services to make your coach business all the more economical.
SetraWorld Magazine
Efficiency in real time.
New, digital services for the next generation of Setra coaches.
Efficiency in real time.
New, digital services for the next generation of Setra coaches.
The next generation of Setra coaches comes as standard with Bus Data Center. The system sends continuously updated vehicle data that coach companies can make effective use of. For example, to avoid breakdowns, locate vehicles or reduce fuel consumption. SetraWorld Magazine took a look round the digital service portfolio provided by OMNIplus ON and will present the essential services and features here.
Coach companies ask themselves a lot of questions when trying to make their business more economical. How do I keep my travel services attractive to my target group? How can I quickly find suitable drivers? How can I streamline daily operations? And how can I increase the efficiency of my buses? To answer at least the latter two questions, a look at the digital services from OMNIplus ON could be helpful.
“On their personal dashboard, bus operators can keep a constant eye on their coach fleets.”
Digital services “out of the box”.
With the “Bus Data Center” telematics box, the basic requirement for the use of digital services is already in place. This is fitted as standard in the next-generation TopClass and ComfortClass.
What is then needed is individual access to the OMNIplus ON customer portal. Because it is there that the data transmitted by the Bus Data Center are presented. On their personal dashboard, bus operators can keep a constant eye on their coach fleets – in real time. To this end, the data are prepared in the form of clear tables and diagrams. This means that important information can be retrieved in seconds. This helps provide both rapid oversight and in-depth analysis.
Avoid breakdowns and optimise workshop management.
An essential aspect of efficiency is high vehicle availability. With services from OMNIplus ON Uptime, you are always a step ahead with repairs and maintenance.
To this end, OMNIplus ON Uptime constantly uses ultra-modern telemetry technologies to continuously analyse millions of transmitted vehicle data. The proactive system categorises the notifications and derives practical and effective recommendations for action from them.
Through detailed advance information, your garage can always prepare in the best way for the tasks ahead and minimise servicing times. If, for example, various repair and maintenance works can be handled as a bundle, only one garage appointment is necessary instead of several subsequent appointments. If the danger arises that a bus will break down from a serious defect, our 24h SERVICE will give you immediate support in looking for the nearest Service Point on your route and will coordinate repairs and spare part procurement.
Display and control fuel usage.
Using less fuel can mean significant savings. With the “consumption overview” feature from OMNIplus ON monitor, trends in diesel and AdBlue consumption can be viewed in daily or weekly comparisons.
On the “consumption overview” dashboard in OMNIplus ON, the current consumption figures are displayed. For every vehicle in your fleet. Simply select the vehicle, time-period and type of consumption and you will be shown all the values in the form of a clear diagram.
With the aid of detailed consumption values for the entire route or per kilometre, you will easily be able to determine saving potentials.
Locate vehicles and analyse deployment data.
Optimised routing is also an opportunity for savings. With the OMNIplus ON location services, you can track vehicles live on a road map. For fleet managers, this provides useful parameters letting them improve vehicle utilisation or adapt travel routes.
But the location services from OMNIplus ON can do more. For example, you can define your own depot as a geographical area to receive automatic notifications when buses enter or leave it.
In the separate “Logbook” dashboard in the OMNIplus ON Portal, you also have the ability to view all the bus fleet’s deployment data. Fleet managers can simply select the vehicle and the period of time and be shown all the trips in the form of a clear 24h diagram. By filtering according to vehicle-related events, you can also find out, for example, when which doors were opened or if the driver has deactivated Active Brake Assist. This increases safety and ensures you can check that schedules are being adhered to.
Fulfil legal documentation requirements fully automatically.
On the “driver card and mass storage download” dashboard in the OMNIplus ON Portal, you are able at any time to download data on your bus drivers’ time behind the wheel and rest periods. With the automated download, the documentary obligations of reading driver cards every 28 days and backing up the mass storage data every 90 days can be fulfilled.
The time intervals for automatic downloads can be set according to personal preferences. Practical: the downloaded driver card and mass storage data can be transferred without a hitch into the company’s internal evaluation systems via a cloud interface (API).
