Freeway Fleet Systems will be launching Insight-AI at Euro Bus Expo (NEC, 12-14 November 2024). The new software development offers real-time and historical insights into all aspects of fleet maintenance with an intuitive design that makes complex fleet data easily accessible for smarter, faster decision-making. By gathering data from mobile devices used by engineers and staff in garages, the system delivers clear, easy-to-interpret charts and graphs via Freeway’s dashboards.
Freeway Insight-AI harnesses cloud data platforms and Business Intelligence (BI) tools to identify operational, engineering, stores, and compliance issues in real time. This empowers managers with the information they need to take immediate corrective action, improve performance, reduce costs, and ensure compliance.
Data is gathered digitally using rugged tablets and smartphones that replace traditional paperwork such as job cards, inspection sheets and parts requisitions. Freeway also collates defect reports from drivers, parts usage and data from stores and data from other areas such as operations and accounts. The pooled data provides the essential ‘fuel’ for AI-driven insights into all aspects of fleet maintenance. Analysed data is presented via Freeway dashboards to highlight critical issues and opportunities to enable informed decisions, aided by AI.
Users can drill down to the underlying data, request AI interpretation, and access sophisticated AI forecasting via a spreadsheet interface, and also link the data to other systems such as Large Language Model (LLM) and generative AI systems using an API key. Fleet-related data then can be processed alongside other business data to provide a wider business insight.
“Now that bus and coach operators are moving to paperless workshops there is an enormous amount of data being collected that just wasn’t available before. The challenge is to try and make sense of it all,” says Patrick Tandy, MD of Freeway Fleet Systems. “And with Insight AI that’s what our software engineers and data analysts have been doing over the last year, in cooperation with our bus industry clients”.
With advances in data processing and especially AI, we’ve developed what we feel will become an invaluable management tool that will allow operators to drill down and identify where performance can be improved to drive improved compliance, productivity and fleet utilisation.”