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ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.fleetowner.com/sites/all/themes/penton_subtheme_fleetowner/images/logos/footer.png\nFleet Owner is part of the Business Intelligence Division of Informa PLC\nAmerican Trucker\nFleetSeek\nBulk Transporter\nTrailer-Body Builders\nRefrigerated Transporter\nRunning Green\nTruck Statistics\nFleet Owner Magazine\nDriver Management\nHD Pickup & Van\nTech-savvy Generation Z to rescue as manufacturing faces ‘Silver Tsunami’ attrition\nTruckload rates heat up in June, spot market volumes beat 2018 levels\nFleet electrification: What you need to know\nPossible HOS changes are no worry to ELD providers\nELD options: How to pick the best ELD provider\nEvery month, FleetOwner magazine features the news and stories that are important to you. See the digital magazine here!\nWomen in Trucking 2018\nTropical Storm Barry set to dump 2 feet of rain on Louisiana, curb energy production\nHow the power of location intelligence delivers value to fleet\nTecNiq introduces T15 low-profile LED vehicle lighting\nCarrierWeb\nI.D. Systems plans to leverage its acquisition of CarrierWeb to provide a \"turnkey\" fleet management solution that makes smarter use of IoT systems, benefitting drivers and fleets.\nIoT asset systems firm buys TMS; 'We can be dominant,' CEO says\nIn a \"cart before horse\" setup, New Jersey-headquartered trailer, cargo, and industrial asset tracking/managing systems maker I.D. Systems believes it can innovate fleet ops with its purchase and addition of CarrierWeb, an in-cab fleet management systems and ELD company based in Atlanta that happens to have a specialty in trailers.\nAaron Marsh | Feb 01, 2019\nFor years, fleet and transportation management systems (TMS) have been enhancing capabilities by adding Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and monitoring systems around trucks and the machinery involved. One company believes there are advantages in developing expertise the other way around—and that it can now add some clever innovations where other fleet management products fail to connect the dots.\nI.D. Systems closed its acquisition of CarrierWeb on Wednesday. Chris Wolfe, I.D. Systems' CEO, is familiar not only with fleet management systems but this type of product evolution. He formerly worked at Qualcomm and oversaw the business division that eventually was spun off as Omnitracs.\nCarrierWeb's U.S.-based assets will be integrated into I.D. Systems' PowerFleet for Logistics division, which the company calls its \"logistics visibility solutions group.\" That combined division will be led by Norm Thomas, who joined I.D. Systems last year from PeopleNet. Thomas also spent more than a decade at U.S. Xpress in roles including chief technology officer.\nSo some fleet management and motor carrier underpinnings are there, and Wolfe said that's what I.D. Systems found was missing in what it was offering its customers. \"What we were missing as part of our whole solution was being an in-cab [fleet management services] provider, having an ELD solution, having a refrigerated solution,\" Wolfe told Fleet Owner. That's exactly CarrierWeb's portfolio.\nI.D. Systems' specialty and focus has been the cargo end of things, and the company released its FleetView interface for its asset-management systems just months after Wolfe came on in 2016. Last fall came I.D. Systems' new LV-Series cargo-tracking systems and \"deep-learning decision-support system,\" Wolfe noted, with that latter including \"Lucy,\" a voice-responsive digital assistant like Apple's Siri.\n\"It's kind of the 'front end' that makes data actionable and livable and alive,\" he explained. Another key element I.D. Systems sees for potential hardware/ software integration is a more complete view of cargo, including live visuals when needed. The company also has a mobile app called YardView that will be integrated with Lucy, and here is where some new possibilities emerge from the CarrierWeb combo.\nI.D. Systems\nI.D. Systems LV-300 asset tracking/ management system\n\"You can actually ask Lucy, 'Can you take me to this trailer, let me know the status, and let me look inside?'\" Wolfe said. \"Well, why can't that app be on the CarrierWeb CarrierMate [in-cab] platform? Then the driver himself could say, 'Take me to this trailer and let me look inside of it before I hook up.'\"\n\"There are a lot of misconnects that happen,\" he continued. \"If I hook up and I think the trailer's empty but it isn't or it's been loaded wrong, obviously, that's a problem you can avoid down the road. Or if I hook up and I don't know that there's a trailer light out, if I don't know there's a problem with the trailer's ABS, I'm going to be having problems down the road.\"\nAside from avoiding those kinds of loading or maintenance problems, I.D. Systems sees possibilities with a tight integration of its IoT cargo/asset systems and the CarrierWeb in-cab and trailer products in a \"do-all, turnkey\" platform.\nCarrierWeb ReeferMate refrigerated trailer system\n\"We can offer better trailer visibility,\" Wolfe said. \"Can you look inside a trailer from your in-cab [terminal] without getting out of the cab? Actually, law enforcement can do that with the right authority; border crossing can do it with the right authority.\"\nPerhaps the expanded I.D. Systems fleet management system and in-cab platform could provide that view at the side of the road, boosting safety and efficiency for both the fleet and law enforcement in such cases. That could also mean big time savings for drivers vs. inspectors having to physically get into a trailer.\n\"Once you break the seal on a truck, you're talking delays,\" Wolfe noted. \"Once you get pulled over for a bad tail light, two-hour delay. What we're trying to do is get ahead of all these problems.\"\nTighter integration\nWhile Wolfe said I.D. Systems' asset-management platform of course will integrate with other fleet management systems, having the CarrierWeb in-cab and reefer/ dry van trailer systems and products in-house will allow for a more streamlined, simplified overall platform. \"Communication is going to be a lot better [in our unified system we will offer] than disparate systems—it always will be,\" he contended.\nThe underlying value proposition of the combined platform, Wolfe added, is fewer headaches and smoother business for fleets as well as driver quality of life and retention. \"Some of the biggest complaints you hear [from drivers] are waiting at facilities, hunting for equipment, misloads, load-shifts, getting pulled over at the side of the road for a tail light out,\" he said.\n\"Our goal is to say, 'That really should never happen.' You should never have to leave a gate without knowing that what you picked up is what you thought it was, it's loaded correctly, and the equipment you hooked up to is fine.\"\nCarrierWeb's client base is about 70% over-the-road trucking companies and 30% private fleets, Wolfe noted, with more vehicles overall in the latter segment since the private fleets average more vehicles each. With the acquisition, I.D. Systems said it will add 9,000 net new subscribers to its platform and more than 70 customers, including the Customized Distribution Division of food service provider Performance Food Group.\nBut rather than a migration of those clients to I.D. Systems' asset-management products, per se, Wolfe said he believes the other direction is more likely—that I.D. Systems' clients will gravitate toward the CarrierWeb fleet management platform.\nI.D. Systems also believes the timing is right for the acquisition and \"end-to-end, turnkey\" combined fleet management product that will result from it, with fleets likely to continue transitioning out of and replacing equipment as they did last year. Many may also be looking at their present in-cab TMS provider(s) and services and considering the options, particularly if they have mixed fleets and duty cycles.\n\"Maybe they have a refrigerated fleet and they have a dry van fleet; they have some tractors and other trucks and want an in-cab solution,\" Wolfe said. \"We can offer it all, and tightly integrated.\"\n\"And we can be a dominant player in this space,\" he continued. \"There's a great opportunity right now. We believe, and we've seen it in the marketplace, that customers are asking us to provide more.\"\nTAGS: Telematics Driver Logs Technology News\nNew carrier? 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