timer platform module, included in the rate

Live tachograph: driving and rest times of every driver

Dispatchers see who is driving right now, how much driving time is left before the break and for the day, and get a warning before the driver breaks the rules. Data comes from the digital tachograph over CAN/FMS together with regular telemetry.

Volvo FH, tractor unittachograph data as of 16:09
Driver 1 card inserted
Driving since 14:26
Continuous 1 h 43 minToday 2 h 13 min
Still allowed: 2 h 47 min until a 45 min break, 6 h 47 min for the day
Driver 2 card inserted
Availability since 14:26
now
00:0006:0012:0018:0024:00
Driving Work Availability Rest
the panel in the vehicle card: both slots, remaining time and activity over the day

What the dispatcher gets

The four things fleets ask for when they want the tachograph inside their tracking system.

01

Activity of every driver

Driving, work, availability and rest for both tachograph slots, with start time. Regulation pictograms, the same as on the tachograph display.

02 timer

How long they can still drive

Continuous and daily driving under Regulation (EC) 561/2006 and AETR: 4.5 h until a 45 min break (or 15 + 30), 9 h per day. The panel shows the time left.

03 badge

Driver by card

The driver card number matches the identifier in the driver list. Insert the card and the driver is assigned to the vehicle: reports, trips and alerts already show the name.

04 notifications_active

Warnings ahead of time

15 min before a mandatory break, 4.5 h without a break, 15 min before the daily time ends, daily time used up, driving without a card. Each one is enabled separately.

Driver hours and rest report

2 slotsboth crew drivers, each day separately
4 activitiestotals of driving, work, availability and rest
4.5 and 9 hnumber of overruns, longest driving stretch, driving without a card
PDF, Excelexport and scheduled delivery by email

How the system behaves on real roads

Tachograph data comes from the vehicle bus, and on the road the bus behaves differently. Here is how that is handled.

verifiedTachograph thresholds come first

When the tachograph reports its own time thresholds, the panel and warnings use them. The server's own calculation covers vehicles without thresholds and is labelled as an estimate.

local_parkingParking counts as rest

With the engine off the CAN bus sleeps and tachograph data disappears. For a driver with a card in a parked vehicle the server counts rest; on the move without data the activity is shown as unknown.

filter_altA clean activity timeline

The tachograph records a few seconds of work at every stop. On the panel and in the report such fragments merge into neighbouring episodes; the database keeps them all.

What you need to connect

A tracker connected to the CAN bus or FMS connector of a vehicle with a digital tachograph. Activities, cards and time thresholds arrive in the standard FMS message; tachograph settings stay as they are.

The driver card number is sent by Teltonika FMB640 and FMC650, Ruptela with tachograph data, Globus GL9 from firmware 2.1.77 and GL7 from 2.1.164.

FMS / TCO1 Globus GL9, GL7 Teltonika FMB640, FMC650 Ruptela EU driver card

DDD file download: in development

Live tachograph data travels as regular telemetry and needs no company card. Remote download of DDD files with a company card, for archiving and inspections, is in development now. Leave a request and we will let you know at launch.

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The module is included in the platform rate

You enable the Tachograph module in a client's card and sell it as a separate service at your own price: a catalog service links to the portal module. The client sees the tachograph once the module is on.

Terms for integrators

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Add the tachograph to your service line-up

The module already runs on trucks of platform clients.