The largest expense that is often overlooked when it comes to telematics is the cost of installation. 

I see Idle hours being calculated in numerous ways by aftermarket telematics services. This is a brief list of how idle is calculated and why they don't work across a mixed fleet.

LHP Telematics specializes in custom telematics solutions that can survive in very rigged environments (construction, heavy equipment, oil and gas, ...). Over the last 3 years I have noticed that there is an inverse relationship with the need for rugged hardware compared to the price of the equipment it is installed on.

We are proud to announce that LHP Telematics is a founding member of the Rugged Telematics Alliance.

This post will describe the differences between an OEM telematics solution and an aftermarket telematics solution.

I am going to write a couple posts on our business model and how telematics solutions for heavy equipment and OEMs differ from standard aftermarket solutions. This post will give a brief overview of how we approach telematics for heavy equipment.

We have finished the initial port of the embedded application to the STW ESX-TC3 telematics unit. We believe this port validates that we truly have created a cross platform embedded software application that can be quickly ported to almost any embedded OS.

We have finished the initial port of the embedded application to the Phoenix International Modular Gateway platform.