The digital era of transport is the integration of intelligent systems to improve road safety, logistics infrastructure development, advanced technologies and services in the transport industry.
The digital era of transportation is an era in which all aspects of transportation infrastructure are equipped with intelligent technologies. Such technologies include automated driving solutions, artificial intelligence, and programmable control systems. They help to improve the productivity, safety, efficiency and convenience of transportation. Such technologies can be used to improve transportation infrastructure, optimize routes, and increase economic productivity.
We live in a unique time where the material world is being integrated with cyberspace. What science fiction writers wrote about 20-30 years ago is becoming commonplace today. The Fourth Industrial Revolution was a social upheaval because it overturned the entire 2,000-year experience of mankind. New technologies integrate physical, informational, political and biological worlds into a single whole. As a result, unique cyber systems emerge, united on a single digital cloud platform. This translates into the ability of devices, mechanisms, machines and people to interact via the Internet of Things (IoT) with each other.
Transportation is one of the most “revolutionary” industries. Here, technologies are rapidly changing in all trends: from mechanics to drones, from gasoline to electricity and hydrogen fuel, from paper maps to GLONASS/GPS monitoring, from manual dispatching to cloud platforms and analytical reports on the work of the entire fleet. For example, just a few years ago, the most popular product for transportation monitoring for logistics company managers was a fuel level sensor. Business owners were struggling with theft of fuel and lubricants. This year's trend is intelligent fleet management.
MONTRANS.ANALYTICS cloud service radically changes the approach to ATP management. Fuel control here is only a small part of all collected telematic data. According to the technologies of “revolution 4.0”, programmers create digital doublers of material objects with their functions. The clone exactly replicates everything that happens to its physical original. The cloud service collects the most complete information about all events that occur with each piece of equipment and the entire enterprise. As a result, the company's management receives final analytical reports with absolutely reliable indicators, since human influence was excluded in their preparation. The information is clear and understandable: you can see where the business is “down” and where things are going up. The owner of the company only has to make the most correct decision. In essence, the digital era of transportation is when a fleet manager receives not a hardware constructor with a manual, but a full set of services that fundamentally change the methods of ATP management and increase its economic efficiency.
At the beginning of 2022, domestic car manufacturers were allowed not to install certain safety systems on the assembly line, for example: the ERA-GLONASS emergency response system, the ABS anti-lock braking system and airbags. In such a situation, the fleet owner can take care of the safety of his staff and business himself. Thus, based on artificial intelligence, Russian programmers have developed a unique solution in the field of video monitoring of transport - MONTRANS DVR system. This is a digital product that brings control over the driver's work to a new level. The device not only monitors the driver's actions, but also warns a person against possible mistakes and dangerous situations.
Alexander Lependin, leading specialist of the video monitoring department of MONTRANS Group of Companies: “According to the data of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, 85% of traffic accidents are caused by distraction of a person behind the wheel. The task of a digital system is to warn the driver in time. MONTRANS DVR solution is developed on the principle of neural network analytics. The IT camera constantly scans the driver's appearance, tracking certain landmarks - special points on the face. In case of detection of deviations from the program settings, the device gives an audible signal and a graphic image corresponding to the event is displayed on the screen”.
MONTRANS DVR system handles such events as:
- signs of driver fatigue (closing eyes and yawning)
- smoking while driving
- talking on the phone while driving
- not wearing a seat belt
- distraction from the road (when the driver looks away for a long time).
In addition, MONTRANS DVR monitors all kinds of dangerous events in front of the car. The system warns the driver
- of a possible collision with a pedestrian
- Dangerous approach to the vehicle ahead or a stationary object
- Lane departure if the driver has not given a turn signal.
- smoking while driving
- talking on the phone while driving
- not wearing a seat belt
- distraction from the road (when the driver looks away for a long time).
In addition, MONTRANS DVR monitors all kinds of dangerous events in front of the car. The system warns the driver
- of a possible collision with a pedestrian
- Dangerous approach to the vehicle ahead or a stationary object
- Lane departure if the driver has not given a turn signal.
When a dangerous situation occurs, the driver hears a voice warning and a graphic appears on the screen. For example, in the case of a possible collision with a vehicle ahead, the monitor shows the seconds until the possible accident. This digital solution has already been tested in many regions of the Russian Federation. One large mining company equipped MONTRANS DVR with about a hundred vehicles. After two months, they sent feedback that the accident rate had decreased by 15%, and drivers stopped violating traffic rules and became much more disciplined.
There is a strong opinion that the digital revolution was organized by young companies. One could even say that they not only supported the industrial revolution, but were born into “revolution 4.0”. Startups, unlike industrial mastodons, transform their structure, change their profile, management system and business priorities more easily and quickly. As an example of reallocation of priorities towards startups, Tesla, founded in 2008, has surpassed the leader of the Second Industrial Revolution (invention of the assembly line in the early 20th century), Ford Motors, in terms of capitalization.
Stanislav Emelyanov, Managing Partner of MONTRANS Group of Companies: “Today cloud solutions help young enterprises to intercept the industry leadership and get out of the way. This was especially evident in the spring of 2020 during the period of forced isolation. And the example of our company is a vivid confirmation of this. Many enterprises that could not switch to “remote” were “eaten up” or “missing in action”. In the case of “MONTRANS” - in April and May 2020, the company showed financial growth”.