Fleets, Assets, and Units Overview

This page will give you an overview of what Fleets and Assets are within the Sensium Connect+ system, and how to think about them, and manage them.

Fleets

Fleets are utilised in the Sensium Connect+ system to designate the department, and location that a vehicle belongs. In the near future, billing from Sensium Connect+ will be set at the fleet level.

When breaking vehicles up across fleets, you should be asking "Which section of the business owns this vehicle?" Some examples might be: Support, Maintenance, Sales.

Each fleet then has a physical location, with a physical location being set by a Place (GeoFence). If you're not utilising Pool Vehicle Booking, then you can choose to ignore splitting up your fleets by location, and instead only break them up via department.

If you're using Pool Vehicle Booking, you then need to decide which fleet will be available in the Pool Vehicle Booking software, and which fleets are not in the Pool Vehicle Booking software.

Assets

Assets are utilised in Sensium Connect+ to designate a specific Vehicle, or piece of machinery. In previous versions of Sensium Connect, vehicle details were stored at the unit level. In Connect+, your vehicle details are stored in an asset, and its specific tracking information is stored against the asset. Assets are assigned to a fleet.

When utilising Sensium Connect+, instead of updating an asset with new vehicle details when you move one of our Telematics units from one vehicle to another, a brand new asset is created, and the old asset is retired.

The simplest way to think about when should I rename an asset, versus when should a new asset be created is; if the physical vehicle/equipment is the same physical item, then feel free to rename/update information about it. If the physical vehicle/equipment is a different piece of equipment, then have a new asset created. For vehicles in particular, the easiest question is "Is the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) the same?" If the VIN is the same, update the information, if the VIN changes, create a new asset.

An asset can exist with no telematics unit required for it to be in the system.

Units

Units are the physical piece of hardware that is installed into a vehicle and provides telematics data. When a unit is installed into a specific vehicle, our Support Team need to be contacted, and we attach it to the correct Asset in Sensium Connect+. Any tracking data received from this point onwards will then be attached to the specific asset.

A unit can be removed from one vehicle (Asset), and then installed into another. When a unit is removed, and when one is installed in a new vehicle (asset) it is a requirement to contact Sensium Support to update which asset the unit is attached to.

Asset Groups

Asset Groups operate the same as "Vehicle Groups" in earlier versions of Sensium Connect. That is, you can multiple groups, and then add one or more assets to each group. Assets Groups differ from Fleets in that an asset can belong to no Asset Groups, or many Asset Groups.

Important Notes:

A Unit can only be attached to one specific Asset at any one point in time. A single unit will never be able to send data to two different assets at the same time.

An asset can only ever belong to one fleet at a single point in time. Assets can be transferred from one fleet to another by the users you have given permission to in Sensium Connect+.

Fleets and Asset Groups are both able to provide user access permissions.