Essentials
ERA Essentials is a GPS vehicle tracking solution. An intelligent, but simple interface to manage the day to day running of your fleet.
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Tracking Features
Features and functions
Live Map View
Know where your vehicles are in real time, with live status updates and locations. All your vehicles can be easily viewed on a single screen. By knowing your vehicles status and movements you can increase productivity, improve your customer service and save time calling your drivers to find out where they are.
Historical tracking
Trackitnow store your data for a minimum of 6 years and it is available 24/7/365. All journeys displayed are colour coded on the map to show the speeds that the vehicle was travelling and all stops are numbered. There is a `trip stops` summary showing the address with times and colour coded icons to show stopped, idling, PTO engaged and driving events. Graphs also show speed, ignition on/off and idling times. All journeys and idle periods are itemised so that you can easily see where to improve fleet efficiency.
Route Reporting
To help identify and eliminate vehicles overlapping on routes and inefficient schedules you can, either by day or by week, re-run and check the overlap of the routes for up to 6 vehicles at the same time. Each vehicle is shown in a different colour, and all of the stops are numbered to help you easily optimise your fleets operation. This is a key management tool that will help fleets operating with multiple depots or groups of vehicles covering overlapping regions or territories.
Unlimited zones / alerts
Geofence Zones trigger easily recognisable location alerts by on-screen pop up, email or any SMS text message recipient. Alert time parameters can be set up to notify any SMS or email recipient in or out of working hours. Typical Geofence Zones are: Home, Office, Customers, Suppliers, No-go areas, London Congestion Charge (CCZ), Refueling points, Security sensitive locations and any location where the convenience of a user friendly name is more easily recognisable than a long formal address. On screen Trip stops summary reports and all paper or PDF reports are easier to read and feel more familiar to the reader.
Fleet Management Features
Fleet Management Features
Full reporting
All of our reports have been designed to give you the information required to run your business efficiently. You can instantly view your fleets performance reports or choose to have the reports automatically emailed to you when you want them, daily, or weekly without having to login to the ERA system.
With over 30 reports to choose from, you can be sure that we have a report that fits your requirements. We store the tracking data for a minimum of 6 years and the historical reporting is instantly available when required. All reports are available in PDF and most in Excel formats.
Scheduled reports - can be automatically emailed to the required members of staff or management team, e.g. a timesheet report can be sent to your inbox every day you wish to select, or can be emailed directly to your wages clerk to verify overtime claims.
Just some of the key reports within any of the ERA tracking platforms (client, web and mobile based) to help you manage your fleet are:
- Timesheet - shows the start and stop time, along with miles driven and number of stops for every day.
- Journey - shows details on every journey taken including full address, Geofence zone, time taken, trip costs and much more.
- Speeding - shows all journeys where the vehicle exceeded the maximum speed limit set by your company.
- Group report - shows totals for miles driven, time driving, time stopped, idling costs, driving costs and much more.
Driver Behaviour
The Trackitnow device monitors the movements of the vehicle every second and uses a set of defined limits to alert on Harsh Acceleration, Harsh Braking and Harsh Cornering. Reduce fuel consumption, accidents and unnecessary wear and tear with live driver feedback and alerting. Historical driver behaviour reporting can be used in conjunction with targeted driver behaviour training.
True Engine Running
All Trackitnow hardware supports our unique TER (True Engine Running) technology that only reports idling when the vehicles engine is actually running. The savings from reducing idling in your fleet can easily pay for the tracking implementation. For example, a typical HGV may waste £2.50 worth of fuel if it idled for an hour.
Fleet grouping
Simple and easy to use tool to allow the vehicles to be split into separate groups, e.g. separating a sales team and engineering team. The vehicles can be grouped to allow easy viewing of locations to help optimise routes, viewing by specific users and the object icons can be colour coded for ease of use.
Cost Centres
If you have more than one division or depot, our simple cost centre feature can be used to allocate each vehicle to the correct division or depot. Each cost centre is then accounted for separately on the monthly direct debit invoice.
Fleet Management
With small or large fleets, managing the vehicle servicing and MOT dates can become a never ending task. With the Trackitnow system, email reports and alerts are sent directly to the fleet manager with: MOT date, servicing dates, insurance renewal and road fund licence renewal dates. Automatic email alerts are sent before and when any of these become due, to help plan your servicing.
CO2 Monitoring
The comprehensive CO2 output information enables you to easily make fleet and company CO2 declarations.
Speeding
Easy to read speed coloured tracks with graphs and full speeding reporting gives the fleet manager all the information required to manage vehicle speeding in the fleet.
Fuel usage / cost
Comprehensive fuel usage information is stored against each vehicle on all journeys and idles are costed. The detailed and summary report gives the fleet manager all the information to monitor the fuel usage and understand where the waste is within the fleet.

Options
Optional features that can be added to ERA Essentials. Please contact our sales team for further information or a live on screen demo.
Driver behaviour feedback screen
The Driver Feedback Screen will alert the driver when any harsh driving incident has been recorded. The screen will alert visually and audibly on each harsh incident and will advise on the type of harsh driving incident that has been recorded.
CANBus Integration
CANBus integration can be added to any FMS enabled HGV's and over 200 makes & models of car and van. This integration will allow you to see actual fuel consumption, fuel used, throttle pedal position and many more features. Trackitnow can also supply an FMS adapter to add connectivity to non FMS enabled HGV's and light commercial vehicles.
Tacho Integration
Tacho integration will offer full driver identification and download automatically from the drivers card, and will show the current status, e.g: driving, rest, break and availability to work. The remote download of the tachograph data at scheduled intervals will relieve the burden on the fleet manager for collecting the data as per DVSA (Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency) requirements.
Driver Identification
Driver ID couples vehicle activity information with the specific driver. This offers a wide range of reports that can be produced against the driver giving the company detailed information on which vehicles the driver has driven, driver based time sheets and driver based journey information. The drivers are displayed alongside the vehicle on the main tracking screen giving an easy view of who is driving the vehicles, rather than manually assigning drivers to vehicles. Easy to use shortcuts allow the users to text the driver directly from the ERA software.
Privacy Button
There will be times when business vehicles or personal vehicles will be used outside of company hours and this is where the privacy button comes into its own. The privacy solution allows the driver to keep personal use of the vehicle masked from users. When the driver activates the privacy solution the ERA software masks the vehicles location and all reports have the address marked as private. At the end of each journey the privacy button resets, and when the next journey is started it alerts the driver to choose a Business Journey or a Private one. Keeping tracking of business and private miles allows companies to conform to the HMRC private use requirements.
EU roaming SIM cards
All Trackitnow tracking devices are supplied with SIM cards that can easily be enabled for EU roaming. Remote activation of EU roaming can easily be enabled by the Trackitnow office, if a vehicle is travelling abroad.
Worldwide roaming SIM cards
All Trackitnow tracking devices are supplied with SIM cards that can easily be enabled for worldwide roaming. Remote activation of worldwide roaming can easily be enabled by the Trackitnow office, if a vehicle is travelling abroad.
Garmin navigation integration
Garmin Trackitnow integration will allow users to send jobs directly to the Garmin dashboard mounted navigation device and easily establish the ETA of the vehicle. The benefits of Garmin integration are that it offers more control of your fleet, improved response times, accurate ETA's and saves time route planning for the driver.
Mobile workforce integration
Trackitnow offer their own mobile work force solution that is built into the ERA solution. This allows users to send jobs directly to their drivers or fitters mobile phone or tablet and see status updates as they carry out the work. Trackitnow also offer bespoke mobile workforce solutions for larger customers that require a more comprehensive solution. For more information please contact Trackitnow.
Temperature monitoring - Ambient
The Trackitnow real time temperature monitoring solution simultaneously reports on the temperature from a string of temperature sensors. If the temperature goes above or below pre-defined temperatures levels then instant alerts are sent directly to the ERA software. A full log of all the temperatures recorded during the journey are easily available to be reported on for a minimum of 6 years and this supplies all the data required for proof of delivery and transit at the correct temperature.
Accident camera
Trackitnow have teamed up with Smartwitness and Novus Insurance Approved accident camera's. The accident camera's support forward and rearward facing camera's, that link directly to the Trackitnow tracking device. Every time the accident camera records an event it will alert the ERA software and record an event on its SD card. The benefits of this solution is that it helps to protect the driver against - crash for cash, false / exaggerated whiplash claims and conflicting reports of actual events. A scheduled report can be sent to the fleet manager when a camera event has been recorded. All events are stored on the SD card in the camera which can be simply removed and the events and recordings downloaded onto a Windows PC. [Click here to open info on Novus cameras] [Click here to open info on Smartwitness cameras]
Road Speed limit exceeded
Trackitnow have developed a “ROAD SPEED LIMIT EXCEEDED” reporting tool that allows any fleet administrator to see if and when any local or national speed limit has been exceeded and for how long. This gives users of the Trackitnow ERA Tracking System a new and previously unavailable degree of understanding about how vehicles are used relative to the legal speed limit.
Support Features
Support Features
Free software updates
Trackitnow regularly provide free automatic software updates to keep our customers updated with the very latest functionality. All software and hardware is developed by our in-house team. Trackitnow have been developing award winning solutions since 2008. All platforms are now covered including ERA Windows client software, MAC web and smartphone and tablet versions are always evolving. Download and install the `one-click` ERA software application here.
Windows /
Android /
Apple
Using the Trackitnow ERA solution you can track your fleet in real time on any internet connected device. With solutions for PC's, Apple Mac's, tablets, phones and any internet connected device, you can monitor your fleets movements from anywhere.
All Network roaming UK Simcards
We were one of the first tracking companies to offer a full UK roaming SIM card (using all the mobile networks in the UK, Vodafone, O2, Orange, T-Mobile, EE and Three) as standard with all of our tracking solutions. This gives our customers the extra confidence that wherever the vehicle goes in the UK it has a much higher chance of sending its locations to our UK servers.
Trackitnow Guarantee
Trackitnow offer a unique service level guarantee to all off its customers. Terms and conditions apply.
Lifetime warranty
All rental devices supplied by Trackitnow come with a full contract term lifetime hardware exchange, parts and labour warranty. Purchased equipment and bundled contracts benefit a 12 month parts and labour warranty. Extended parts and labour warranties are available upon request for a small monthly fee.
Service Guarantee
Trackitnow have their own private cloud server solution to provide our customers with one of the most resilient vehicle tracking platforms on the market. Using the latest technology available, Trackitnow can offer 100% redundancy across their server architecture, ensuring our customers stay connected and in touch with their vehicle locations.
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Live Turn by Turn updates |
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Live 15 second updates |
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Historic Tracking Relays |
Data stored for 6 years |
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Google Maps |
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Traffic Alerts |
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All UK GSM Network SIM Card |
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Timesheet reports |
Live and emailed weekly |
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Small Business Reports |
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Scheduled Reports |
emailed when you need them |
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Excel Reporting |
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Geo-fence Zones |
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Geo-fence Zone alerts by |
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Points of Interest |
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Fleet Management |
Manage MOT, Tax and Servicing |
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Free Mobile Apps & Web Based |
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Lifetime On Site Parts & Labour Warranty |
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Instant Journey Reports |
Mini Trip Stops |
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Driver Behaviour |
Harsh Accelerating, Braking & Cornering |
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Vehicle Grouping |
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FREE Two Way SMS Centre |
Messages to your Drivers |
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Nearest Vehicle Search |
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User controlled access to vehicles |
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Road speed limits and reporting |
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ERA Client Desktop Software |
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Google Streetview |
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Full Reporting Suite |
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Cost Centres |
Split your bill between different areas of your business |
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Idling Reports |
Shows excessive idling of vehicles |
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Driver Behaviour Reports |
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Graphical Reporting on Speeding & Idling |
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Driver Identification |
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Optional £3 per month |
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Driver Feedback Screen |
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Optional £3 per month |
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HMRC Business / Private Mileage Button & Reporting |
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Optional £2.50 per month |
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CANBus Fuel Usage Reporting on HGV, LGV, Car & Van |
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HGV Tachograph Remote Download |
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Battery Backup |
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Extra Digital Input |
Can be connected to a PTO |
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Covert Install |
Motion |
Motion Tracker & |
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Easy to DIY Install & Transfer |
Motion 2 |
Motion 2 |
EU Roaming |
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Optional £2 per month |
Optional £2 per month |