Despite launching its Guardian telematics service three years ago, Roadtec still views the technology as an egg it is slowly aiming to crack. Marketing manager Eric Baker referred to telematics as an industry buzz word, noting that its pervasiveness in the majority of all heavy equipment marketing has created a challenge for everyone in the industry.
He sees the term as teetering on the edge of generic, its widespread use beginning to water down what has always been an impressive message to any fleet manager or equipment owner.
“What we sometimes struggle with is getting lumped into all of that,” Baker said Wednesday during a press event at the World of Asphalt show in Baltimore. “But this goes above and beyond telematics.”
By “this,” Baker was referring to Roadtec’s latest version of Guardian that elevates the service above the usual machine diagnostics.
Through a free software update for current Guardian subscribers, Roadtec is adding real-time and end-of-day production reporting. The company says operators will be able to view “the exact amount of material they are loading into the truck in front of them, eliminating overloaded or underloaded trucks.”
Production reporting is available now on the company’s RX-600, RX-700 and RX-900 cold planers and Roadtec plans to extend the feature to its line of pavers, “very soon.”
Roadtech notes that on the milling machines, he milling machines customers can track cutter bit consumption.
