Our Biggest Takeaways from the Geotab Connect 2024 Conference
At Sawatch Labs, we’re passionate about optimizing fleet management efforts through advanced data analytics. We make a concerted effort to find opportunities to connect with industry professionals so we can not only share our own insights but learn more about emerging trends and technologies.
Mary Till and David Fuchs from our Business Development team, along with Brandon Hadden and Andrew Cook from our Customer Success team, attended Geotab Connect 2024 in Las Vegas this past February. The three-day conference focused on sharing data-driven fleet maintenance strategies and understanding how fleets and providers can solve upcoming business challenges.
Below are some of our biggest takeaways from this exciting event.
Sustainability Still Commands the Spotlight
The Geotab Connect 2024 Conference showed that sustainability remains top of mind for fleets across the world. Mounting pressure to comply with regulations and enticing incentives for decarbonization have created the need for a unified sustainability approach. Geotab’s Sustainability Alliance Program aims to fill that need.
The Sustainability Alliance Program connects fleets with various vendors who offer solutions to improve the efficiency and sustainability of fleets. As a proud alliance partner, Sawatch Labs joins other service providers in delivering a powerful set of comprehensive tools and services for improving sustainability. The Sustainability Alliance supports organizations looking to streamline their sustainability efforts by providing:
EV planning software solutions
Electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) optimization
Electricity and fuel management
Fleet rightsizing and suitability assessments
The Rise of Benchmarking Data and Predictive Analytics
A traffic accident is one of the most devastating events a fleet can experience. In an effort to curtail potential accidents, benchmarking and predictive analytics have become more ingrained in the Geotab platform. Applications like Safety Center enable fleet managers to assess risk among their drivers and take preventative action. By using peer-fleet benchmarking and objective data, organizations gain valuable insight into hazardous driver behavior. The data allows fleet managers to see how their fleets stack up against similar fleets, as well as accurately identify risk among individual vehicles in their own fleets.
There’s An Increased Demand for Camera Integrations
Telematics can help thwart thieves by tracking stolen vehicles, but this year’s conference noted the rise of another important accountability tool—cameras. With several marketplace partners offering camera integrations, we predict increased adoption in the coming years. When cameras work alongside vehicle telematics, they present an opportunity to, quite literally, create a more complete picture of your operations.
Other benefits of incorporating cameras and sensors into your fleet include:
Performance insight to guide driver coaching
Capture risky events, such as cell phone use and tailgating
Provide video evidence following an accident
Immediate detection of imminent collisions
AI-Powered Telematics Technology is the Future
It’s only a matter of time before AI becomes woven into our everyday lives, and at this year’s conference, Geotab announced its latest contribution to the field. Geotab Ace, the company’s new AI assistant, will soon be leveraged as a tool to help fleet professionals gain insights into everyday operations. The generative AI platform will utilize natural language to provide quick access to data intelligence.
Geotab Connect 2024: An Informative Experience
All in all, the Geotab Connect 2024 conference was an enriching, insightful experience that gave everyone a more holistic understanding of the evolving landscape of data-driven fleet maintenance. As a trusted partner of Geotab, Sawatch Labs remains committed to supporting organizations in their journey toward smarter, more sustainable fleet management.
If you want to learn more about Sawatch Labs and how we leverage telematics data to inform data-driven fleet analyses, let’s get in touch.
