The 1,500,000th unit was connected to Wialon
Gurtam, an international developer of the GPS tracking and fleet management system, connected the 1,500,000th unit to Wialon platform. It is the record number among the developers in the CIS and the countries of Eastern Europe.
For fifteen years, Wialon has been actively taking on new markets. With each year more and more units are connected to the monitoring platform. For reference: in 2009, Wialon tracked 8,750 units only, in 2013 this number grew 50 times, at the end of 2016 the number of units exceeded one million. Now Wialon controls the worldwide fleet that costs over $75 billion (six budgets of the winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang). Gurtam occupies about 40% of the transport monitoring market in Russia and the CIS.
“At the beginning of the year ABI Research, a technology market intelligence company published the “Commercial Telematics: Competitive Assessment of Strategic Innovation and Implementation” report where it forecast that the number of vehicles with installed monitoring system will grow up to 59 million by 2021. The major part of this process belongs to the twelve leading players in the world telematics market. Gurtam is one of them. We work hard to keep and strengthen our presence there. For 2017 alone, we increased the number of the tracked units by one third, and plan on to reach two million.” — says Aliaksandr Kuushynau, Head of Wialon Division.
AVANTERN telematics connected the milestone unit. The company is one of the biggest federal providers of telematics services in Russia. AVANTERN telematics started back in 2004 with the installation of intrusion detection systems aimed at vehicle theft prevention as well as their search and recover. In 2006, AVANTERN telematics started conquering new horizons: logistics area was the first. In 2011, the company signed the first significant contract with one of the biggest leasing companies in Russia. Together they came up with the system controlling the vehicles in a lease. Nowadays, AVANTERN telematics works with many leasing companies. It implements its solutions in other spheres too: taxi, container transport monitoring, security systems for cash-in-transit vehicles and jewellery shippers. The company installs monitoring systems across entire Russia in about 200 cities.
“The most important thing for the company working with business leaders is the seamless operation of the monitoring system because any downtime can end up with the client loss. Wialon is perfect in this respect. The system’s functionality is no less important. Gurtam is focused on the development of its product which lets us move forward. Due to Wialon updates that appear timely basing on the market demands, we can create new services for the end-users and expand the current functionality. Besides, we can adjust Wialon to the unique needs of each client. A broad range of the equipment integrated to work with the platform allows us to rapidly solve our customers’ tasks.” — says Dmitry Chislov, Head of the mobile assets security and control department of AVANTERN telematics.
Transport GPS monitoring increases the business performance. It helps to save up to 10% of fuel costs, 15% of maintenance costs. It also allows controlling the state of the goods during transportation. At average fuel consumption (30 litres per 100 km) and average mileage (120,000 km per year), the Russian company can save on one vehicle up to $245 per year at the fuel cost of $0,68 per litre. In the US, the annual savings will be $270 at average fuel costs of $0,75 per litre. In Argentina — about $470 at average fuel costs of $1,3 per litre.
