IF you thought telematics was something just for larger corporate fleets or for business van operators, then think again.

That’s because TRACKER has launched a new product for SMEs with small fleets or a few company cars called TRACKER Fleet Evo.

The entry based telematics solution is suitable for businesses with a fleet of up to 20 vehicles, reckons the telematics specialists. It starts from £4.95 a month.

TRACKER Fleet Evo features journeys and mapping, offering route planning, traffic alerts, as well as providing vehicle and asset status and locations as standard.

Businesses can also benefit from journey playback, including start and stop times, giving business car managers an overview of their company cars and identify any issues, such as reasons for repeated journey delays. It even provides an option to set-up alerts such as geofences alerts, so if a vehicle enters or leaves a pre-determined geographical area or operates outside a pre-determined time without authority, an alert will be triggered.

For those that want to employ a telematics solution to monitor driver style and low impact collisions, TRACKER Fleet Evo will shortly have the option to be upgraded at any time, to include driving style and impact detection modules, as needed.

“Based on feedback from our customers, SMEs see the benefits of telematics, but often don’t need all the features provided on more complex systems,” said David Wilson, chief operating officer at TRACKER.

“By creating TRACKER Fleet Evo, we can offer small fleet owners a modular system, allowing them to simply ‘Track and Trace’ vehicles or add more features, as they go.”