Success Story | VG710 On-Board Gateway Helps Digitally Manage Fire Trucks in Athabasca County, Alberta, Canada ###
Learning to use fire is a crucial step in the history of human evolution. With the more and more extensive use of fire, fire has become a major problem that people must face and overcome.
Since the advent of the fire truck at the beginning of the last century, after continuous development and improvement, it has quickly become the main force of fire fighting work, and has completely changed the face of human beings and fire struggles.
In order to better protect people's lives and property, the Fire Department of Athabasca County, Alberta, western Canada, plans to use advanced Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to achieve preventive maintenance and remote monitoring of fire trucks.
The command center needs to fully and accurately understand the location of the fire truck, schedule and other information, after receiving the alarm at the fire station, timely dispatch the vehicle on duty, and in the rescue process, plan the fastest driving route according to the location of the vehicle; In the absence of police, preventive maintenance services are used to ensure that fire fighting vehicles are in the best working condition at all times.
The networking solution not only needs to collect vehicle operation data, report location information in real time, monitor vehicle battery voltage, fuel consumption and other data throughout the process, but also provide the function of monitoring abnormal status and generating alarm information, so as to timely discover vehicle failures and provide accurate data support for operation and maintenance work.
Alberta, Western Canada
Athabasca County
Located in western Canada, Alberta has a total area of 661,848 square kilometers and is one of only two provinces in Canada that are not near the sea. With its low annual precipitation, fire prevention and control is particularly critical locally, how does Inhantong help the Athabasca County Fire Department in Alberta to enter a new digital route, so that fire trucks can respond quickly and efficiently?
Plan ahead
Digital "Preventive Maintenance"
As a fire truck highly related to people's livelihood, it must always maintain the best working state, in order to achieve the preventive maintenance functions required by customers, it is necessary to transmit the data of a variety of equipment in the car to the cloud platform for cloud platform analysis and use.
The Athabasca County Fire Department in Alberta, western Canada, not only needs the networking equipment in the program to provide rich industrial interfaces, such as I/O ports, etc., in order to connect a variety of devices, but also in order to ensure the real-time nature of data, the network is also highly demanding.
Yinghantong fire vehicle networking solution, providing a variety of industrial interfaces of the vehicle gateway VG710, VG710 provides OBD interface to collect vehicle engine and OBD information, through lte CAT6 high-speed cellular network, the data is uploaded to the fleet management platform in real time, so that technicians can monitor the vehicle status, timely eliminate vehicle faults and adjust configuration settings, to ensure that in an emergency, all vehicles can operate normally.
Race against the clock to stay safe
Digital "Efficient Scheduling"
Fire has the characteristics of suddenness and randomness, once it occurs or the rescue is not timely, it will bring huge losses to people's lives and property, and because of this, the fire department must carry out fire rescue and disposal work in a timely, accurate and correct manner.
In the rescue process, the solution needs to provide high-precision GNSS positioning and tracking functions for fire trucks, and conveniently connect the information to the customer fleet management cloud platform to help the command center track the real-time location of the vehicle, plan the optimal route, and provide reliable and uninterrupted on-board Wi-Fi for the fire truck, so that the driver can quickly receive the dispatch route information.
Fire truck deployment Yinghan opens the on-board gateway VG710, VG710 through I/O to connect the emergency lights and sirens of the fire truck to obtain vehicle working status information; Using the VG710 high-precision GNSS system and inertial navigation function to obtain accurate positioning of the vehicle, VG710 will collect data including: time, speed, vehicle battery voltage, vehicle status information, and location and other information uploaded to the management center monitoring platform, by the command center for the fire truck to provide a faster and safer route, to support the scene in the shortest time.
Advantages of Yinghantong
Powerful in-car Wi-Fi, on-board communication is uninterrupted
The VG710 provides high-speed and reliable Wi-Fi for in-vehicle equipment, enabling motorists to quickly receive dispatch route information to better fulfill their firefighting duties.
Fast, reliable, uninterrupted 4G network with continuous communication with the management center in real time
The VG710 provides a high-speed, uninterrupted LTE CAT6 network with automatic detection and recovery via multilayered links, and the VG710 ensures that all fire trucks are online 24/7.
Continuous status tracking for peace of mind for customers
The VG710 has a wealth of interfaces such as I/O, constantly collecting the status data of fire trucks, and the high-precision 72-channel global satellite navigation system continuously tracks the location of each vehicle, obtains the accurate positioning of the vehicle, and dispatches easily and efficiently.
Easy to go to the cloud, "cloud + terminal" integrated intelligent management
The VG710 can connect to third-party cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure through simple configuration, and can also connect to the user's own cloud platform through MQTT and HTTP standard protocols, and can quickly develop and deploy personalized applications through the cloud.
Written by /Lu Yue With photo/Deng Wei Proofreader/Sun Zhandong and Xixi