Regulator links with Motorola to beef up real-time data capabilities
As it explores how industry can fight fatigue and distraction with technology, the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) is also looking to online solutions to streamline its compliance and enforcement processes, it has emerged.
A mobile application from Motorola’s mobile developer subsidiary Gridstone is driving the regulator’s push to integrate and centralise all key heavy vehicle operator information collected on-road in one place.
The mobile application delivers real-time information such as heavy vehicle registration numbers, driver’s license details and other information from the regulator’s database to NHVR’s safety and compliance officers while they are on the move.
Supervisors and system administrators monitor information and intelligence via a desktop version of the application as it is captured in the field.
The managed service is an initial three-year agreement with the potential to extend to seven.
“Previously, complex daily tasks including calculating the weight of vehicles and issuing traffic infringement notices was quite a manual process,” NHVR director of information and technology Mark Radovic says.
“Now officers can complete these activities on-the-go via mobile devices and immediately send the information they capture in the field directly back to base.
“The application is helping our frontline personnel gain access to NHVR intelligence data. It allows them to work more efficiently which means they now have more time to target their engagements with heavy vehicle drivers out on the road and promote national safety.”
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Motorola Solutions managing director Con Balaskas says the technology was designed to meet specific operational needs of NHVR’s officers while improving safety for road users.
“By accessing key operational data whenever and wherever they need it, NHVR’s staff can manage their daily tasks more safely and efficiently.
“For example, the solution quickly alerts officers to potentially dangerous issues involving vehicles and drivers.
“This enables them to make timely, informed decisions while keeping themselves and community members safe.”
The solution has already been rolled out in Victoria and will be expanded to the ACT, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia throughout 2020, Motorola notes.