Masternaut geo-fencing aids safety at Air Products

22 September 2008, 5:14pm

The world-leading industrial gas supplier, Air Products, has chosen Masternaut Three X to supply a web-based satellite tracking solution for their UK and Ireland cylinder gas business (Packaged Gases). Air Products has rolled out the solution across its delivery fleet to optimise its route planning, reducing its carbon footprint, and provide a highly secure, fully automatic seamless lone-worker safety system.

The system uses geo-fencing to provide an extremely secure lone worker system for Air Products’ delivery drivers. Each driver is assigned a Driver ID Key that links them to a particular vehicle. This enables Air Products to see exactly who is behind the wheel of each vehicle in real time. Through geofencing, each customer site is allocated a time slot so that the moment the company's vehicle and driver enters the site, the clock counts down to the time they leave. If the delivery takes longer than anticipated, the driver is contacted to explain the delay. If there is no response from the driver, then the system alerts the key holder.

Air Products Packaged Gases serves a vast range of customers and industries including: steel; energy; technology; healthcare; and food markets, with a unique portfolio of atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases. The company pledges unconditional commitment to their customers and constantly seeks to make improvements. With this in mind, they investigated the potential of using the latest in vehicle and personnel tracking to boost service levels.

“Air Products’ two key objectives for the Masternaut implementation are: utilisation of the service in order to identify areas for improving our vehicle routing and also ensuring we have a robust, lone worker system that provides maximum safety, eradicating any chance of human error,” says Peter Birdsall, UK Transport Manager, Packaged Gases, Air Products.

The company's Packaged Gases business uses a specially developed routing and scheduling program to manage its delivery fleet. Air Products' will cross-reference the Masternaut live information with the routing and scheduling software to enable it to optimise the management of the fleet.

“One of the main benefits this solution offers us is the ability to manage the sequence of orders and let customers know when they can expect their deliveries,” adds Peter Birdsall. “The lone worker solution gives a real-time view of delivery activity. As it is fully automatic we have eliminated the problem of human error. It is a very robust solution to lone worker safety and management,” he concludes.

CONTACT Martin Port at Masternaut Three X, Tel +44 (0)113 281 4000
www.masternaut.co.uk

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