Navman Wireless Adds Google Maps to OnlineAVL2, Delivering Live Traffic & Street Views for Fleet Operators

GLENVIEW, IL (February 17, 2010) – Navman Wireless today announced the addition of live traffic and 360° photographic street views to its OnlineAVL2 real-time fleet tracking and management system with an upgrade of the system’s mapping software to Google Maps, using the Google Maps API Premier. The new features advance OnlineAVL2’s ability to improve fleet productivity and customer service while reducing fuel, labor and vehicle operating costs.

OnlineAVL2’s new integration with the Google Maps API Premier equips fleet operators with better information for optimizing routing and assisting drivers once they reach their destinations.

• Google Map Live Traffic Layer enables dispatchers to make vehicle assignments based on real-time traffic conditions as well as reroute vehicles already dispatched to avoid congestion that will affect service or delivery times.
• Google Street View allows dispatchers to zoom, rotate and pan through ground-level street photos to help drivers navigate to locations such as parking lots, delivery docks and building doors when they arrive at their assigned site.

Google Maps is now also the mapping platform used to display real-time GPS-based vehicle location information in the OnlineAVL2 application. The upgrade is included free of charge for all new and existing customers.

“Live traffic and street views are important tools for operations personnel who have responsibility for getting vehicles to their destinations as quickly as possible,” said Renaat Ver Eecke, Vice President, Navman Wireless North America. “Upgrading to Google Maps allows us to provide these features along with fast, accurate maps that help us deliver the real-time vehicle tracking information at the heart of our application.”

“Navman Wireless’ implementation of the Google Maps API Premier will help fleet operators make intelligent routing decisions and correctly navigate drivers to the correct address based on core map data as well as traffic conditions,” said Daniel Chu, Product Manager, Google Maps API Premier, Google Enterprise. “This is a classic example of the value of the Maps platform in helping businesses meet their mapping needs.”

The Google Maps upgrade to OnlineAVL2 is the second major enhancement to Navman Wireless’ fleet tracking and management system in a month. In January, the company announced an industry-first interactive drilldown report enabling users to access key performance metrics at any level - including region, subregion, and even month, week and day for individual vehicles - without having to run multiple reports.

Two dozen other upgrades announced in January as part of a new Version 9.3 release of OnlineAVL2 include other reporting improvements, new map usability features, and support for 10,000 customer sites per fleet. These ongoing enhancements improve fleet managers’ ability to optimize operations and increase profitability by tracking, monitoring, communicating with and analyzing the performance of their movable and fixed equipment assets.

The new Google Maps features of OnlineAVL2 are available immediately.

About Navman Wireless
Navman Wireless is a global leader in GPS-based fleet optimization products and services, including real-time vehicle tracking and OEM GPS solutions that enable companies to track, monitor and communicate with their movable and fixed equipment assets. The company’s flagship OnlineAVL2/Qube system is installed in more than 110,000 vehicles owned by over 8,500 customers worldwide, making Navman Wireless one of the world’s largest fleet management providers with coverage on five continents. Navman Wireless is based in Glenview, IL, with facilities in the U.S., Mexico, UK, Italy, Taiwan, Ireland, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia. For more information, visit www.navmanwireless.com or www.navmanwirelessus.com .