With the increasing complexity of operations in transportations and logistics, there is an urgent need for companies with fleets to increase drivers and fleet productivity as well as to minimize their operational costs; therefore there is a significant demand for highly-capable, yet easy-to-use Fleet Management Systems (FMS).

Existing state-of-the-art FMS operate mainly on the cloud as a web service and provide significant graphical information system capability and capacity (the typical FMS dot-on-the-map functionality) as well as address the majority of operational and maintenance management requirements. On the other hand, existing solutions seem to exhibit a gap towards transforming the plethora of telemetry and tracking (big) data into rich insights and, especially, into cost-efficient, eco-friendly consultation for both drivers and various key decision makers such fleet managers.

The current version 1 of Navarchos FMS (www.navarchos.com) operates on a single-server as a web service and provides mainly monitoring and reporting functionalities to fleet managers. Therefore, fleet managers are expected to analyze the plethora of available data manually, in order to infer driver behavior insights. Furthermore, Navarchos FMS lacks of important, state-of-the-art features such as routing and scheduling (i.e. effective vehicle and driver management), real-time visually-appealing notifications and recommendations to drivers as well as intelligent metrics and indicators about drivers’ eco-driving behavior and productivity to fleet managers.

The main goal of this proposal is the technological and innovation-driven upgrade of Navarchos FMS to NAVARCHOS 2 in order to be able to compete world-class related platforms. More specifically, the main features that will be designed and implemented in the frameworks of NAVARCHOS 2 include: a) real-time driver-centric notification and recommendations algorithms for promoting eco-driving behavior, b) intelligent metrics and analytics for empowering fleet managers to have a more comprehensive overview and complete control of their fleet, c) routing optimization and scheduling tools for increased fleet productivity, and d) scalable, highly available and high performance cloud-based infrastructure to support (a), (b) and (c).

Beyond the research-powered and innovation-driven upgrade of an exclusively “Made in Cyprus” FMS, the proposed project aims to create a highly competitive FMS not only with nationwide but also with worldwide prospects and customers as expected from the specific objectives of the call.