The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDoT) has selected Canadian firm Geotab as its fleet data and telematics provider following a multi-phase pilot review process.

The partnership will equip TDoT’s fleet with Geotab’s core telematics technology and integrated forward-facing cameras, focusing on delivering the data pipeline and enhanced visual context required to manage a modern state transit operation.

State DoTs handle everything from snowploughs to specialised highway assets, meaning managers need real visibility into equipment metrics such as PTO engagement and onboard sensors. Geotab is built for this, giving transportation teams the information they need to keep crews safe and operations running smoothly.

The deployment for TDoT (www.tn.gov/tdot.html) focuses on core vehicle visibility and camera upfitting, which provides several immediate advantages:

• Unified fleet visibility: Unifies data from various vehicle classes into a single view to streamline daily operations.
• Forward-facing visual context: Equips fleet assets with integrated forward-facing cameras to enhance situational awareness, verify route conditions and improve overall operator safety.
• Proactive asset health: Enables data-driven maintenance strategies based on real-world vehicle use and real-time engine diagnostics to reduce downtime.
• Operational efficiency: Enhances asset use insights, helping agencies optimise vehicle lifecycles and increase the value of public resources.
• Scalable foundation: Provides a data infrastructure capable of supporting future software expansions or specialised equipment integrations as agency needs evolve.

“For a DoT, a vehicle isn’t just a vehicle, it’s a sophisticated mobile asset performing a critical public service, and the technology behind it has to match that responsibility,” said Neil Garrett, vice president at Geotab. “Geotab is purpose-built for exactly this kind of complexity. We’re proud to partner with TDoT to give their team a unified picture of every asset on the road, so they can focus on what matters: keeping Tennessee’s infrastructure moving safely and efficiently.”

With this agreement, Geotab (www.geotab.com) continues to expand its role as a telematics partner for government entities. It has more than 100,000 customers from small and mid-size fleets to Fortune 500 enterprises and public-sector organisations, including the US federal government. Geotab connects approximately six million vehicles and assets and processes 100 billion data points daily.

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