AT&T and Geotab have joined forces to help drive emissions reductions in the transportation sector, combining Geotab’s telematics solutions with AT&T’s Internet of Thins (IoT) platforms.
To support this goal of dramatic emissions reduction, Geotab is participating in AT&T’s Connected Climate Initiative (CCI), a collaborative that works on connectivity-based solutions to reduce greenhouse emissions by 1 gigaton by 2035. The effort brings together corporate leaders, universities, and non-profit organizations to unleash the power of connectivity solutions, including the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and edge computing, in order to reach this goal.
Geotab's data-driven insights enable customers to make informed decisions for better fleet management and sustainability outcomes. The company’s solutions include the Green Fleet Dashboard , a tool for improving a fleet’s fuel economy and reducing emissions, and the EV Suitability Assessment (EVSA) , which offers data-driven recommendations to make the transition to electric vehicles as seamless as possible.
Geotab’s telematics solution pairs with AT&T’s IoT platforms and nationwide data network to help any business or government entity look holistically at their fleet of vehicles. The combined technologies allow users to make assessments from a single analytics-based platform. This provides a whole host of benefits, including elevating efficiencies which help lower the carbon emissions of the overall fleet. Ultimately, this can enable companies to reach their carbon reduction goals, helping to reduce emissions from the transportation sector and lower the risk of catastrophic climate change.
This collaboration can provide several impacts for customers. Enabling tracking and managing of fuel consumption and idling trends, optimizing routes and coaching drivers on fuel efficiency with a connected fleet platform can simplify tasks and provide real-time performance insights to manage costs, while also reducing emissions. It does not stop there, however. Having real-time data in hand can also support the identification of which fleet vehicles would be prime for transitioning to alternative fuel vehicles and which can wait, as any transition for a large fleet will often take time and require a rollout.
Shifting corporate fleets to non-fossil fuel vehicles would also have benefits for U.S. communities. For example, electric vehicles have no tailpipe emissions, reducing air pollution in neighborhoods from delivery vans, work trucks and other commercial vehicles.
