Indian commercial vehicle market leaders TATA Motors said that they have been evolving the their medium & heavy trucks as smart trucks over a period of time and they will power all future launches with this new technology called the ‘Telematics’.
"We have already rolled out some of the vehicles using ‘Telematics’ and going forward all our medium-heavy trucks will be powered by it," said the company's business head of intermediate, medium and heavy trucks, Rajesh Kaul. The company has decided to make this technology available free of cost to the buyers & even gone a step ahead in waiving off the subscription charges for the first three years of purchase.
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Telematics technology deals with long distance transmission of computerized information. It connects the electric control unit of the vehicle which will help the fleet owners not only to track their vehicles but also to get real time information about fuel consumption & mileage.
The technology is coming pre-installed in all latest TATA trucks & is also available as an accessory to buyers at a price of Rs. 10,000. TATA will be charging a fee of Rs. 5,500 per year as subscription users as there is data transmission and processing that is involved in the process besides constant use of the global positioning system technology. This unique technology will be functional only in TATA trucks.
With these new & brilliant use of technology to monitor & access important information about vehicles we can certainly assure that the future is now & this is just the beginning of a technologically driven era of transportation.
"We have already rolled out some of the vehicles using ‘Telematics’ and going forward all our medium-heavy trucks will be powered by it," said the company's business head of intermediate, medium and heavy trucks, Rajesh Kaul. The company has decided to make this technology available free of cost to the buyers & even gone a step ahead in waiving off the subscription charges for the first three years of purchase.
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Telematics technology deals with long distance transmission of computerized information. It connects the electric control unit of the vehicle which will help the fleet owners not only to track their vehicles but also to get real time information about fuel consumption & mileage.
The technology is coming pre-installed in all latest TATA trucks & is also available as an accessory to buyers at a price of Rs. 10,000. TATA will be charging a fee of Rs. 5,500 per year as subscription users as there is data transmission and processing that is involved in the process besides constant use of the global positioning system technology. This unique technology will be functional only in TATA trucks.
With these new & brilliant use of technology to monitor & access important information about vehicles we can certainly assure that the future is now & this is just the beginning of a technologically driven era of transportation.
