Telematics & live tracking
Live vehicle positions, trip history, driving behaviour, EV battery monitoring, crash detection, speed compliance and devices.
Telematics features use tracking hardware installed in your fleet vehicles. They cover live tracking, trip history, driving behaviour, EV battery monitoring, crash detection and speed compliance. Everything is under Telematics in the sidebar.
Live tracking
Telematics → Live Tracking shows a map of every vehicle with a paired telematics device. Vehicles move on the map as new positions arrive.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Live map | Shows each vehicle's position and heading. A vehicle with the ignition on is shown in green; one with the ignition off is grey. |
| Vehicle list | Lists your tracked vehicles with their current speed, or Idle or Off. Search by vehicle or filter by pool, and select a vehicle to centre the map on it. |
| Vehicle details | Select a vehicle to see its speed, ignition, last event, driver and how the driver was identified. |
| Geofences | Your active geofences are drawn on the map, so you can see which zones vehicles are in or near. |
| Auto refresh | Positions refresh automatically every 10 seconds. You don't need to reload the page. |
Trip history
Telematics → Trips lists every trip detected from ignition on and off events and GPS data.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Trip list | Each trip's start time, vehicle, driver, distance, duration and maximum speed. |
| Route | Open a trip to see the route it took on the map, matched to the road. The route is coloured by speed against the speed limit. |
| Trip details | Distance, duration, maximum and average speed. |
| Speed compliance | The trip's speed compliance, its largest overspeed and how long the vehicle was over the limit. |
Telematics → Event History shows a timeline of a vehicle's telematics events, with route playback.
Driving behaviour
Vectis analyses driving to give each driver a safety score. It encourages safe driving and helps you see where training is needed.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Driver score | A score out of 100. Each driving event takes points off. Higher is better. |
| Event breakdown | Harsh acceleration, braking and cornering, and speeding, across the fleet. |
| Driver rankings | Drivers ranked by safety score. |
| Driver scorecard | One driver's score over time and the events behind it. |
EV battery monitoring
Telematics → EV Battery shows your electric vehicles' battery levels and charging.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Battery dashboard | Your EVs, how many are charging, how many have a low battery, and the average battery level. |
| Charging sessions | Past charging sessions, including the energy used. |
Crash detection
Telematics devices detect high-impact events that may be a crash, and record the time, location and severity of the impact. Telematics → Crash Detection lists them.
Speed compliance
Vectis compares vehicle speed with the road's speed limit to find speeding. Routes are matched to the road and given speed limit data.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Speed-coloured routes | A trip's route is green within the limit, amber when slightly over and red when well over. |
| Overspeed alerts | Alerts when a vehicle is speeding. Turn them on and choose the minimum severity in Settings → Organisation → Overspeed Alerts. |
| Speed compliance page | Telematics → Speed Compliance shows fleet-wide compliance, a daily trend, compliance by pool, driver and vehicle, and the most frequent overspeed locations. |
Geofences
Geofences are boundaries you draw on the map. Vectis alerts you when vehicles enter or leave them. See Setting up geofences.
Devices
Telematics → Devices lists the telematics devices in your fleet. You need permission to manage telematics, which System Administrator has.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Device list | Every device with its IMEI, model, status and vehicle. Search, and filter by status or by whether it is paired to a vehicle. |
| Device details | One device's model, firmware, serial number, status, vehicle and when it was last seen. |
| Status | Registered, Online, Offline or Inactive. |
If a device isn't reporting, see My device isn't connecting.