TheMHub 701 is a Telematics unit, primarily suited to the retail and insurance markets. The device provides comprehensive vehicle activity information designed to assist insurance companies in managing the risk of vehicle policies while offering the consumer safety features.
Features
Daily Activity Summary
A vehicle daily activity summary is sent to the insurance company back office systems. The information provides the insurers with advanced tools enabling the management of the risk profile associated with any given vehicle policy. The summary includes the follows: total driving hours, hours spent driving at night, odometer reading, number of speeding events, hours spent in high-risk areas, number of trips.
Vehicle Recovery
On detection of a vehicle theft, an active vehicle recovery profile can be activated. The profile will automatically trigger a position reporting on a user-defined interval and the activation of user-defined outputs such as hazards, vehicle lights, vehicle horn, etc. Immobilisation can be triggered to disable the vehicle.
Accident Notification and Reconstruction
The MHub logs relevant vehicle data including location, speed, direction and harsh braking on a second-by-second basis. After detecting an impact, the device automatically transmits the accident log to a centralised platform. This provides the operator with an accident notification and full reconstruction of the events leading to the accident.
Speed Trap Alerts
The location of the speed traps relevant to the geographical area of the user can be ownloaded to the unit by the service provider. On approaching a speed trap location, the MHub unit notifies the driver of the speed trap by means of a buzzer.
Geofence Management
Entry and exit of user-defined geographical areas can be monitored and notified by means of text message to a mobile phone or to a web application.
Safe Mode
A Safe Mode profile can be triggered on the MHub using a scotch call. The Safe Mode enables the monitoring of safety related features and text message notification of any breaches to a user-defined mobile number. Safety features include the following: speeding, accident notification and entry to high-risk areas.
Tow Detection
Unauthorised movement of the vehicle while ignition is off is notified by means of a text message to a user-defined mobile number.
Business Trip Log
All business related trips can be easily identified by the user and provided in a monthly report.
Power Modes
Using the latest technologies, the MHub has the ability to intelligently switch between various power modes while maintaining full functional ability. The device can reduce its power consumption to levels well below industry standards, allowing a vehicle to stand for weeks without being driven, while not excessively draining the vehicle battery.
Least Cost Routing
Utilising a proprietary intelligent messaging engine, the MHub selects the least cost data transmission based on user defined parameters of location (i.e. roaming status), data priority and availability of communication bearers. An example would be the switching of the communication method from GPRS to SMS for high priority events when roaming while storing all the low priority unsent data and resuming transmission via GPRS of the low priority data when returning to home network.
Dynamic Trigger Configuration (DTC)
Utilising an intelligent proprietary Dynamic Trigger Configuration (DTC) engine, any user defined event and an associated action can be configured and applied to the MHub unit over the air, providing an easily adaptable platform to dynamically changing requirements.
Output Control
Outputs such as door unlock can be controlled by an approved user's mobile phone.
Onboard Navigation Assistance
Real time GPS data is channelled to 3rd party navigation systems.
