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ola-mis-blog · 8 years ago

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MIS application in Ola.

Ola cabs have their own tracking management system using the GPS receiver in smartphones and many other APIs provided by google.

Recently they have installed tracking devices in some of their vehicles.

A GPS tracker can range from anywhere between Rs. 1500/- to Rs 15000/- according to your requirement and the additional features.

Although there are many small scale manufacturers as well as companies which will import the trackers and integrate them with their solution, Autocop India manufactures them here in India and at a pretty large scale.

GPS trackers are available for import, from China - for about 5000 Rs.

These trackers have a SIM card slot. The trackers can periodically send SMS with GPS information to a pre-configured mobile phone. This way your vehicle is always trackable! Other than SMS, these devices also support GPRS connection - so that fleet manager can have a ‘ALWAYS ON’ link with the vehicle. Few trackers even support geo fencing - that is to alert the owner, if the car crosses certain geographical boundary.

These GPS trackers come with SDKs to develop softwares on top of trackers - but these are usually running on Windows.

Many companies are now providing fleet management services in india now. Just as a side note, Tata - India’s premier truck manufacturer has just started FLEETMAN - fleet management service for their trucks. This is very very economical - at 4000 Rs per year, per vehicle.

Olacabs is using the android technology in a magnificent way to do what Meru cab is doing for 60,000 INR. All the cabs are installed with an android based mobile. Olacabs have developed an android based mobile application which uses inbuilt GPS technology to report the distance traveled and device’s clock for waiting time. Once you have the distance traveled, you can calculate the approximate amount by simple calculations (INR 18*distance traveled). Thus once a journey is complete the mobile application send the information to a server which in turn stores the information of total amount. Also they offer Ola app on android, BB and iOS which works on the similar lines. There are many such apps available on play store which gives you distance traveled and speed (For eg: Sygic, Speedtest etc)

On the other hand Meru, Easy Cabs are using a GPS based device (not android) for tracking system. The complete package offers credit card acceptance, speed checker high demand areas etc. And the approximate cost of the same is around 60,000 INR.

Its s huge market because everybody is using more vehicles now a days. either personal or commercial. And they to track them for better security, connectivity and productivity.

There are a ton of GPS Vehicle Tracking Companies in India, one of them is Asset Tracker Bangalore. Which provides 99.99 % accurate location of your commercial as well as personal vehicle in all over India.

Companies like DTDC & BigBasket automate their billing and payment of leased vehicles by using Ola’s accurate GPS Tracking Solution.

Ola Cabs’ solution leverages cost effective, off the shelf hardware. However it has some limitations

It relies on GPS for calculation of Fare.

The GPS and the Vehicle odometer don’t give the same reading. This is because, GPS essentially gives co-ordinates every few seconds and a formula is used to calculate the distance between successive points. i.e, it assumes that the vehicle traveled in a straight line between two successive readings. You can take GPS readings more frequnetly but then, GPS accuracy is around 5~10 meters, so if you take readings at a high frequency like every 1 second, the % error is large since actual distance travelled in that short interval of time is small.

Chipset/Module manufacturers specify GPS accuracy as a Probability Distribution Function. Basically, when the marketing material says 5 meters accuracy, it usually means 5 meters accuracy for 95% of the readings taken under good signal conditions. Nothing can be said about remaining 5% readings under good signal or 100% of the readings in bad signal conditions. Due to this, sometimes the readings have a large error (in 100s of meters or even more than a kilometer). The error can quickly build up if the GPS fix keeps “jumping” like this every few seconds. There are some parameters like Dilution of Precision & SNR that can be used to asses accuracy (android does it internally and provides a nice api too) but even these are not always reliable.

GPS readings are not stable: Even if the vehicle is stationary successive readings may be off by a few meters or more. This makes it difficult to accurately identify when waiting period should be started.

Most of the time, the error is small. But strictly speaking fare calculation should not be left to probability.

Govt. norms mandate use of certified meters for rickshaws & taxis. I don’t know whether Govt. considers it a taxi service or a car rental service or something else. Maybe they don’t have to follow that mandate. But Meru, Tab Cab, Arya Cabs etc. are all using a clunky digital meter even though they have expensive GPS hardware with LCD screen.

GPS trackers with no display can be very cheap. The cheapest ones are very unreliable. You would spend more on servicing them than you would save upfront. Standard ones come for 9 to 12K. With these you can sense engine status, fuel level etc. Those with LCD and a full blown OS like Windows CE/Windows Embedded or Android can be as expensive as 700-800 EUR. They come with options like Magnetic Card Reader, Compact Printer, etc. These are rugged computers designed for automotive use. They also have additional IO capability. For example, you may take the odometer input and use that for distance calculation instead of relying on GPS alone.

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ola-mis-blog · 8 years ago

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Introduction

ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd., operating under the trade name Ola, is an Indian online transportation network company. Ola was founded as an online cab aggregator in Mumbai, but is now based in Bangalore. As of September 2015, Ola was valued at $5 billion.

It was founded on 3 December 2010 by Bhavish Aggarwal (currently CEO) and Ankit Bhati. As of 2014, the company had expanded to a network of more than 200,000 cars across 100 cities. In November 2014, Ola expanded to incorporate autos on-trial basis in Bangalore.Post the trial phase, Ola Auto expanded to other cities like Delhi, Pune, Chennai and Hyderabad and Kolkata starting December 2014. In December 2015, Ola expanded its auto services in Chandigarh, Indore, Jaipur and Guwahati, Visakhapatnam. Ola is valued at $5 billion as of September 2015.In March 2015, OlaCabs acquired Bangalore based cab service TaxiForSure for about $200 million.From the 25th of June 2015, Ola users have gained access to TFS cabs via the Ola mobile application. By November 2015, Ola had acquired Geotagg, a trip-planning applications company, for an undisclosed sum to strengthen its new bus-shuttle service.Ola provides different types of cab service ranging from economic to luxury travel.The cabs are reserved through a mobile app. This cab service supports both cash and cashless payment options with Ola money. It claims to clock an average of more than 150,000 bookings per day and commands 60 percent of the market share in India.November 2014 Ola also started on-demand auto rickshaw service on its mobile app in Bangalore, Pune and few other cities.

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